American Century | Career Advice

If you have a knack for selling things to people, you should give a real estate career a try in 2021. If you are currently finishing your nursing degree online or in person, you can expect to find work as an RN almost immediately after graduating next June. It is a slightly different education path than a registered nurse, but a degree can be finished sooner than that of a registered nurse. If you have a passion for creating software programs and applications or just improving on old ones, you might want to start steering your career ship in this direction.

As both a personal trainer and a former corporate employee I wish I could go back and tell my former self the following when trying to create a work/exercise balance. You may find that you are even more ready to conquer your day after having spent some time focusing simply on your movement and breath. As a career woman, it is incredibly easy to lose focus on the importance of including fitness in your day to day life. This guest post was authored by Ilana Milstein Ilana Milstein is a Personal Trainer, Pilates Instructor and the founder of No Excuses Training.

If your child has a great idea for a business but doesn’t know where to start when it comes to bringing it to life, that’s where you can come in. But, if your child has an idea that solves a problem or gives people what they want, they’ve already jumped the first hurdle. The next step in getting started is finding funding, which can often be the most difficult task since people may not take a child’s business seriously. By going through these questions with your child, you can create an actual business plan while getting a better idea of how their business mindset works, and how far they want to take their idea.

It’s a great idea to go to work for yourself and build your own dream, but unfortunately, many of these people don’t know what they are getting into and quickly find themselves stressed out, depressed and overwhelmed. You need to have realistic expectations otherwise you’re going to be quickly disappointed, stressed and depressed when you realize how much work is really involved to run a successful business. Make your health a priority and eat a healthy diet, get plenty of exercise, get enough quality sleep, find time to relax, drink plenty of water and don’t overextend yourself. Entrepreneurs, in particular, need to take precautions to protect their mental health and take care of themselves.​​​​​​​​ This guest post was authored by Dr. Alok Trivedi ​​Dr.

–Doody and Frenchy–can barely follow the prescribed steps of a traditional waltz, focusing more on counting than each other.​ During the Hand Jive, other couples not just do the dance well, but riff off the standard- they improvise. Maybe sprint reviews are left in the dust as reviews, but you just save them for successful launches Or maybe sprints don’t feel right for your work, so you embrace a more kanban-style This book incorporates Agile frameworks from a variety of sources to create something unique: it’s still Agile, but it’s far from ‘by the book’ implementations. This guest post was authored by Andrea Fryrear Andrea is co-author of the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Marketing curriculum, author of two books on marketing agility, and an internationally sought-after speaker and trainer.​​ ​​​​​​She holds numerous Agile certifications, including Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO), ICAgile Certified Instructor, Certified Professional in Agile Marketing (ICP-MKG), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Agile Leader (CAL-1), Certified [email protected] Practitioner, and Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC).

Teachers, airline pilots, train engineers, bus drivers, firefighters, doctors, nurses, architects, designers of all trades, and business people celebrate the new year, oblivious to the changes this new era of technology will bring, what it will mean for our jobs, and the impacts on our society. ​ Automation is the introduction of automatic processes in tasks that were previously performed by human workers, so that little or no human intervention is needed. If the tasks you perform fall under this causal formula—“If this happens, then you do this other thing”—you’d better start honing new skills that will allow you to perform more complex tasks that still require human intervention. The people who will make it in the future are those who are good at working with technology, who have the skills to harness technology’s power, and who possess the human skills of emotional intelligence, critical thinking, contextual creativity, and mindfulness.

Women remain criminally underrepresented in STEM sectors, and while more of us are gaining graduate business degrees, we’re still not on an equal footing when it comes to the real-world corporate sphere. The very epitome of Coco Chanel’s famous statement, that “success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable”, Nooyi is a classic example of a minority female defying expectations and making her mark in a traditionally male-dominated sector. Described by Forbes as having encouraged the public to have more open and honest conversations about the difficulties faced by women in business, such as the pressures of balancing work and family, Nooyi is undoubtedly a feminist icon for the ages. Holding progressive views on environmental issues, Kocher is fully committed to being a power for good, proving not only that women can succeed in business, but also encouraging us to re-evaluate our approaches to personal accountability.

When you ask people to use their hands to show what “balance” looks like, hands ultimately raise in some replica of a scale, similar to the scales of justice. Sure, it would be nice if our home and work demanded equal attention, delivered equal rewards, and prompted an equal feeling of well-being and calm. Burnout requires serious tactics in order to breakthrough to crafting a more reasonable life that can handle ups and downs, high tides and low ones. This guest post was authored by Eileen McDargh Eileen McDargh is CEO (chief energy officer) at the Resiliency Group, where she draws on practical business know-how, life experience, and years of international consulting to help others survive and thrive in an upside-down world.

You see, these days of mental emptiness are a sign from my brain: it’s saying ‘too much is happening, I need time to process it all, I need time to think. We have two kinds of thinking: what Barbara Oakely and Terry Sejnowski, in their super-MOOC Learning How to Learn teach as focused thinking and diffuse thinking. Focused thinking is the conscious, active work that we normally call thinking: Reading, writing, learning a new skill, writing up a new business strategy. Whether you start a different activity or go to sleep, giving your pre-frontal cortex a break lets the diffuse thinking happen.

The post-pandemic financial uncertainty and inability to keep up with obligations, combined with a hostile digital environment, might have a much higher impact on how many new businesses will emerge. Back-to-school spending obligations might become a significant setback for US-based parents who want to start side hustles in 2020: according to the Federal Reserve Bank, most new small businesses in the US are financed using credit card funds. The pandemic opened the gate to hackers, as most employees have been working from home and become unprotected without the office’s cybersecurity shields,“ says Daniel Markuson, digital privacy expert at NordVPN. This guest post was authored by Daniel Markuson Daniel Markuson is a digital privacy enthusiast and an Internet security expert at NordVPN, a leading virtual private network (VPN) provider.