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How to Boost Your Technical Skills (During Trying Times)
During trying times, it can be difficult to see the good in a bad situation. Wondering how to boost your technical skills may be the furthest thing from your mind. Because right now, it's hard to feel like your normal self--the person who gets...
Balancing Childcare With Working From Home
Balancing childcare while working from home has become a necessity for many of us during these days of COVID-19. Schools and daycare centers are closed and we must stay quarantined from most of the beloved childcare providers that have helped us in...
Working Remotely as a Virtual Team
Here at Big Interview, we believe in working remotely as a virtual team. This is an approach that has worked well for us since we launched in 2012. We’ve founded our business on finding talented, motivated people to fill the roles we need, and then...
How to Use Your Time Off for Professional Development
When is the last time you thought about professional development? The spread of COVID-19 has caused many people to be out of work or taking mandatory time off while stuck at home feeling uncertain about the future of their jobs. With so many in...
What You Should Know About Career Management
Master the Most Underrated Competency for Career Success The #1 career competency that drives success across industries is a strength that anyone can develop -- and one that is crucial to both overall career success and acing job interviews. The...
Career Change Tips: The Dos and Don’ts of Navigating Your Next Step
In our coaching business at Skillful Communications, we work with people in all sorts of industries (and age groups) who are pursuing career changes, and there are plenty of reasons they’re doing so. With rapid developments occurring in technology...
Interview – Ben Brooks | Executive Coach + Co-founder PILOT
Interview with Ben Brooks, co-founder of PILOT (www.pilot.coach) - a tech startup that helps employers retain their best people. Ben discusses: Why the best time to work on your career is when you're not looking for a job. Why using your...
How to Ask for a Raise (and actually get it)
When you accepted your job, you may have been happy with—or at least satisfied by—the salary that came with it. But over time, you might find that your growing expenses begin to climb higher than the average annual 2.9 percent salary increase. Is...
Job Hopping – DOs and DON’Ts
Some might say job hopping, the practice of changing jobs frequently in a short period of time, is career suicide. Many hiring managers are biased against job hoppers -- seeing frequent employment changes as a sign of flakiness or unreliability....