As of 2019, women made up 51.8 percent of the workforce in management, professional, and related occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As modern workplaces continue to evolve, women face unique challenges and have unique opportunities to thrive. This resource guide from Lakewood Ranch Search & Recruiting offers 12 ways for professional women to excel in the office and pave...
The following is courtesy of Courtney Rosenfeld who can be reached at courtneyrosenfeld@gigspark.biz 7 Jobs You Can Easily Outsource to Freelancers The freelance market has exploded in the past few years and shows no signs of slowing down. One in three Americans is now a freelancer, and there are billio...
This article is courtesy of Kimberly S. Webster, Esq., whose website is kswebsterlaw.com Employment Law Ramifications In reality, essentially any job can be done by the right freelancer. However, the jobs that are mostly ad hoc, such as tech support and graphic design, and jobs that require a...
According to a research study by the consulting firm Accenture and Girls Who Code, in 2015 there were 40,000 computer science graduates to fill 500,000 computing jobs. Why have we got this mis-match and are you a part of it? Despite today's technology tools, the perfect opportunity for you probably isn't presenting itself just when you are looking for it. That's one reason you should depend...
"The U.S. government is worse at cybersecurity than just about everyone else" Yahoo Tech, Digital Trends, Lulu Chang April 15, 2016 Scary article that shows the organization with the largest assets is not keeping proper care of its assets. It's a problem and an opportunity at the same time....
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We have long understood the power of algorithms to do wondrous things. Often, however, interpersonal communication is an overlooked application for them. Imagine algorithms that could help you construct an e-mail that came in as "warm" to the receiver instead of "cold." A new piece of software called "Crystal" does just that using algorithms to categorize professionals into 64 personality...
As reported in "Future Care," JASON is an anonymous group that has been working on U.S. Department of Defense projects. It recently released two reports commissioned by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on health IT. The first is "A Robust Health Data Infrastructure," and the second is "Data for Individual Health." These seem tame enough as the group grapples with a system focuse...
Courtesy of Aaron Hurst in "The New Killer Interview Question": As Google has discovered, we need to stop getting advice from management consultants and start spending more time talking to academics who have actually studied workplace behavior. I have been inspired by many of these amazing academics over the last two years. Perhaps the most powerful and useful as been the work of Yale’s Amy Wrz...
According to the FBI, the price of an electronic healthcare record on the Black Market is around $50. US. Compare that with the price of only $1. for someone's Social Security Number. Given that, after a breach, no healthcare organization wants to "buy back" all that was stolen, even assuming they could. A better plan is to spend serious money on data security before a (reportable) breach...