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Your Next Investment: People, Not Projects | Mashable

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Many investors say they invest in people, not ideas. Everyone has great ideas, but not everyone has the right mix of intelligence, resourcefulness and determination to execute the idea.

Enter Pave, an impact-investing site that need not be compared to Kickstarter or Indiegogo. Pave is a platform where individuals can back young people’s careers (the average funding goal is $27,000). The idea isn’t new — patrons and angel investors have been around for a while — but the technological tactics are new, and the platform helps to level the playing for people with big ideas and passion to match. The site launched in December 2012 and has 4,500 prospects and 1,700 backers to date.

Pave prides itself on people, not projects, and the setup enables investors to back someonebased on aligned interests, such as business, education and environment. It’s not a traditional loan, and it’s not a donation — the point isn’t for the prospect to pay the investor back quickly. The financial backing is a way for established individuals to help young, ambitious people build sustainable careers and projects over the next 10 years — and the prospects can spend money how they see fit. Backers earn financial returns for supporting successful prospects, and they often evolve into mentors for the prospect, though that’s not written into the funding agreement.

Read more: Your Next Investment: People, Not Projects | Mashable

35 Surefire Ways to Stand Out During Your Job Search | Mashable

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When you’re applying for a job, you don’t just want to get noticed, you want to stand out as the best applicant the hiring committee has ever seen. You know you’re the perfect person for the job — and you want them to know that, too.

But how, exactly, do you do that? We pulled together a roundup of our all-time best job search advice, from getting noticed before you apply to acing the interview, plus tips from our favorite career experts — to bring you 35 ways to put yourself ahead of the pack.

See the list: 35 Surefire Ways to Stand Out During Your Job Search | Mashable.

10 Things Extraordinary Bosses Give Employees | Inc.com

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Good bosses care about getting important things done. Exceptional bosses care about their people. Good bosses have strong organizational skills. Good bosses have solid decision-making skills. Good bosses get important things done.

Exceptional bosses do all of the above–and more. Sure, they care about their company and customers, their vendors and suppliers. But most importantly, they care to an exceptional degree about the people who work for them.

Article discusses the following 10 things:

  1. Autonomy and independence.
  2. Clear expectations.
  3. Meaningful objectives.
  4. A true sense of purpose.
  5. Opportunities to provide significant input.
  6. A real sense of connection.
  7. Reliable consistency.
  8. Private criticism.
  9. Pubic praise.
  10. A chance for a meaningful future.

via 10 Things Extraordinary Bosses Give Employees | Inc.com.

How To Wire Your Brain For Happiness | HuffPost

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The secret to lasting happiness might be neatly summed up in a cheesy neuroscience joke: “The neurons that fire together, wire together.”

The article shares 5 ways for hardwiring happiness.

via How To Wire Your Brain For Happiness | HuffPost.

What Multitasking Does To Your Brain | Fast Company

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In case we needed another reason to close the 15 extra browser tabs we have open, Clifford Nass, a communication professor at Stanford, has provided major motivation for monotasking: according to his research, the more you multitask, the less youre able to learn, concentrate, or be nice to people.

Read: What Multitasking Does To Your Brain | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.

8 things successful people do, and why they work [Infographic] | Visual.ly

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8 things successful people do, and why they work  [Infographic] | Visual.ly

8 things successful people do

Didn’t Get the Job? You’ll Never Know Why | WSJ.com

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You aced the interview, your résumé sings, but in the end, you didn’t get the job. Chances are, you’ll never know why.

It is a painful conundrum of the job search process: Rejected candidates want to understand why they didn’t get hired, but employers, fearing discrimination complaints, keep silent. And those who do speak up offer little more than platitudes.

Without specifics, candidates are left to repeat the same mistakes, while hiring managers complain they’re swamped with applicants who miss the mark.

Read the full story: Didn’t Get the Job? You’ll Never Know Why | WSJ.com.

20 Tools to Showcase Your Portfolio | Mashable

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Working in a creative industry often means that you need to present your work on a global stage, using an attractive and professional platform. A great portfolio can help you land clients while building your brand and network, so it’s essential to get it right.

However, creating a beautiful, functional portfolio can be complicated and time-consuming, especially if you have no prior design or coding knowledge. Not to worry — there are plenty of online tools that can help you get your portfolio up and running in no time.

Tools reviewed:

  1. Carbonmade
  2. Behance
  3. Dribbble
  4. Dunked
  5. Coroflot
  6. Viewbook
  7. Portfolio Box
  8. deviantART
  9. Shown’d
  10. Subfolio
  11. Crevado
  12. Portfoliopen
  13. Jobrary
  14. design:related
  15. Krop
  16. Cargo Collective
  17. Brushd
  18. Sliding Boxes
  19. Portfolio Lounge
  20. Folio24

via 20 Tools to Showcase Your Portfolio | Mashable.

So, You Want to be a Law Librarian? | Letters to a Young Librarian

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So, You Want to be a Law Librarian?, by Janelle Beitz and Mari Cheney | Letters to a Young Librarian

An interview with two academic law librarians.

Announcing National Learn to Code Day! | Ladies Learning Code

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Ladies Learning Code is excited to announce our latest initiative designed to promote technology education in Canada: National Learn to Code Day!

On September 21, 2013 over 450 learners across Canada will attend simultaneous HTML & CSS workshops in nine cities across the country, plus hundreds more will join us for our first-ever online workshop! Learn more about our adult in-person and online Code Day workshops here, and more about our Kids Learning Code National “Learn to Code” Day workshops here.

via Announcing National Learn to Code Day! | Ladies Learning Code.

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