Remember when hiring managers used to swoon over Ivy League degrees? These days, they care more about who can stop the app from crashing or make sales spike. Welcome to the era of skills-based hiring – where knowing how to get things done beats knowing where you learned it. Because while diplomas look great in a frame – and make for polite conversation starters when viewed in your Zoom background – results look even better on a balance sheet.
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Change is rarely convenient. It interrupts our routines, challenges our assumptions, and often requires more energy than we’d like to spend. But it’s also the thing that forces us to grow. For me, nothing has highlighted this chaos more than the intersection of relocation and remote work. Not just once, but over and over – again and again.
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Freelancers, this one is for you! This July, we’re presenting you a photography challenge to give your camera roll a glow-up – and your creativity a much-needed stretch. Welcome to the #FlexYourFocus Photo Challenge: 31 days, 31 prompts, and just one rule… have fun with it.
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One of the best parts about being a freelancer (or remote worker) – besides dodging the commute and choosing your own Slack emoji – is the built-in flexibility and opportunity for spontaneous adventures. But even with all that freedom, it’s surprisingly easy to blink and realize you spent the entire summer working from the same desk, sipping lukewarm coffee, and promising yourself, “next weekend, I swear.”
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Raise your hand if you own a car. Okay, you don’t actually need to raise your hand, but play along as we talk about how ride-share apps as a guide for hiring.
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Hey, Siri… what’s the forecast? “Looks like cloudy skies, uncertainty, light rain, and a strong chance of budget slashing.” The digital assistant knows what business leaders are really asking, we’re all questioning how to plan for surviving a slowdown.
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It started with an email.
Subject line: Urgent: Tariff Changes Affecting Your Shipment.
Your morning coffee suddenly tastes like despair. That container of widgets you’ve ordered for years? The duties just jumped from a manageable $2,000 to a migraine-inducing $12,000. And just like that, your budget has all the structural integrity of a wet paper bag.
Hiring isn’t just about putting someone’s butt in a chair (or their face in a Zoom square) anymore. It’s about strategy — and more specifically, return on investment. When businesses focus only on the up-front salary cost of a hire, they’re missing the bigger picture. In today’s economic landscape, traditional hiring can quietly drain resources — while agile staffing solutions like freelance talent can dramatically shift the cost-benefit equation in your favor.
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You know the drill. You meticulously craft the perfect job description and moments after you publish it to your favorite “now hiring” website your inbox becomes a battlefield of résumés, cover letters, and LinkedIn connection requests. You brace yourself for the impending onslaught of great candidates and start to dig in. The first one looks promising — until you open it and see an uber-generic, copy-paste cover letter starting with the disappointingly non-specific “To whom it may concern…” The next applicant boasts “exceptional attention to detial” (yes, spelled exactly like that). Others list “breathing” and “social media posting” as skills. There’s even a group of submissions that claim to be “fast learners” while admitting to no experience related to the job description.
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