The current mantra is, "Everyone should learn to code." The problem is most people interpret that to mean "Everyone should become a programmer." Like many professions, programming takes a certain combination of talent and skills that not everyone possesses. For example, when I (Cal) was younger, I decided I wanted to learn to play the
A firefighter, a professor, a computer repair technician, and a lawyer are having dinner together. Which one is the salesperson? None of them, right? One is in the business of saving lives, another teaches, one fixes stuff, and the last one keeps people out of jail. They're not in sales. Or are they? The fact
Your Upwork profile is critical for landing jobs as a freelancer. Clients use it to decide who to interview, and they also invite freelancers to interview directly after finding them in search results… …So if you create an Upwork profile that gets seen and clicked in search results, you’ll start getting interviews without having to
Article by Cecilia Meis Have you ever read a job listing that describes a search for a perfectionist? The hiring company must surely have the best intentions: It wants someone who will work hard to get the job done right. But if the company truly demands perfection, it risks never getting the job done at
Have you ever had a horribly embarrassing public speaking experience? Were you mortified when you went blank in your high school French class when asked about Madame Thibeault's small dog? Did you give a presentation at work and, when you looked out at the audience, become uncomfortably aware that most people were on their phones? Did you feel
Looking for a job can be stressful for anyone. For those who may be fresh out of rehab for drug and alcohol addictions, the same stresses that every job seeker faces can be amplified by still other stressors unique to early recovery from substance abuse. For example, financial concerns about not being able to pay the bills
Being a successful leader in an organization does not shield you from career failure. In fact, the higher up you are on the org chart, the greater the risk of professional setbacks. Mistakes and blind spots at that level tend to negatively impact the broader organization, implicitly or explicitly, in addition to yourself. How can you
Who among us hasn't had the experience: You walk into an interview for a job you really want, sit down in a chair, and immediately start saying things you regret. So much hinges on what you say in the job interview — and unfortunately, it's all to easy to let that pressure get to you.
We all make mistakes. It's inevitable. But owning up to a blunder at work isn't always easy. "I think it's hard because to admit that you're wrong is not something that's comfortable for most people, especially in a situation like work where the stakes can be really high," says workplace expert Alexandra Levit, author of
Article by Lauren Lawley Head My mother used to wash old tennis balls. Toward the end of every summer, I would visit our community tennis club and ask the pro if she had any dead balls I could take off her hands. I would deliver a bag to my mother, who would endure the thunderous