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To Get Ahead, Look Within

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November was “National Career Development Month.” In retrospect, I have to admit that I have not run across many people that were content with their career status. Ultimately, Tatyana became the youngest Paralympian in 2004, and in 2013 she won SIX gold medals as a wheelchair racer.

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How the City of Denver Hires Superstar Tech Talent

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Just ask the City of Denver, which hired Frank Daidone, the former CIO at Chipotle, as its new CIO in 2013. According to that report, an attractive fixed salary was the eighth most important factor for happiness on the job, trailing good relationships with colleagues and career development opportunities.

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Career Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Talent.

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Career Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Talent Managers / 3. Likewise, fewer HR professionals are using it as a retention strategy and fewer are offering a formal way for employees to find new careers internally.” Are companies giving up on career development? Tuesday, 24 April 2012.

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What War for Talent?

China Gorman

Accenture’s 2014 College Graduate Employment Survey compares the expectations and perceptions of 2014’s university graduates with the realities of the working world according to both 2012 and 2013 graduates. This comparison casts a focused and specific lens on the issue of entry-level talent development, and gives us some insightful data.

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How Google Used Data to Validate the Impact of Good Managers

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For many reasons Google eventually brought the managers back, but still, there was no real proof that managers brought impact or value to the organization and so the question of the need for people managers lingered (Garvin, 2013).

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#BersinIMPACT: Mentoring for Career Development ~ HR to HR 2.0.

Strategic HCM

BersinIMPACT: Mentoring for Career Development. The other process area that seemed to get a fair amount of focus at Bersin Impact, other than performance management , learning / leadership development, and recruiting , was career development. Five Simple Goal-setting Guidelines. 1 year ago. Advertisements.

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The 9/11 Good Deed Challenge

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In 2013, 62 million Americans volunteered nearly 8 billion hours. While it’s not a federal holiday, many organizations and individuals plan volunteer activities to serve their local communities. In writing this post, I found some very interesting statistics about volunteering in the U.S. Each of us has the ability to volunteer.