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Philly Tech Trends: The Top Platforms for Hosting Virtual Events
If you were hosting an in-person conference, one of your first priorities would be finding a venue that could accommodate the type of event you wanted to host. Not every location will have what you need. And the same is true if you are deliberating over what platform to use to hold a virtual event.…
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Career Corner: 5 Steve Jobs Presentation Hacks to Wow the Room
While Steve Jobs is a controversial figure, nobody will deny the ability he had to get people excited for Apple’s newest idea. As the site Inc. describes, Jobs became the spokesman for Apple because he knew how to captivate people and give them something to remember. Here is what Inc. had to say about what…
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Career Corner: Best jobs for 2022? Think Communications, Healthcare, and Cybersecurity
The demands of the job market are always changing, but the conditions of the last few years have accelerated that change. The pandemic and increased reliance on digital tools has changed what jobs are coveted. Courtesy of CBS, here are some of the most in-demand jobs for 2022: Speech-Language Pathologist These individuals are trained with…
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Career Corner: Don’t Let Your Outdated Résumé Ruin Your One Chance to Make a Good First Impression
Your résumé is typically the first impression you get to make on an employer, so you want to make sure it’s a good one. If you haven’t tuned yours up in a while, you might be damaging your job prospects by neglecting doing those updates. Fortunately, Allison Pohle of The Wall Street Journal recommends some…
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Wiser Wealth: Proactive Investments Options as a Hedge Against Inflation
2021 marked a steep year for climbing inflation, causing many to reevaluate what to do to safeguard their financial future. Some are hopeful the current inflation rates will simply settle back down to what they were, but it never hurts to be proactive with your plans in case the current rates are here to stay.…
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Philly Tech Trends: Planning Your First Virtual Conference
Hosting a conference can feel overwhelming even under normal circumstances. But attempting to do so virtually adds an additional layer of difficulty since you have far fewer examples to learn from. Like anything else done virtually during Covid, a virtual conference takes getting used to but probably isn’t as challenging as you think. Courtesy of…
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Career Corner: Vaccination Status Is the New Must-Have on Your Resume
It is becoming more common to hear news stories about people showing up at restaurants or shops only to be taken aback to hear they must show proof of vaccination to enter. However, such policies only seem to be becoming more common, possibly now extending to job interviews. According to The Wall Street Journal, listing…
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Career Corner: 9 Reasons Why You Should Use LinkedIn
While LinkedIn has been around since 2003, some people never got into it. Perhaps you are one of them and just assumed it was something you’d never use, and now regard it as yet another niche social media platform. That’s far from the truth, as LinkedIn can actually help out your career in many ways…
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Career Corner: Keep Your Job Search Moving Forward — Even if Recruiters Ignore You
You can do everything right in your job application and still have it not be enough. Despite submitting a taut, qualified resume, and a well-written, personalized cover letter, you can just wind up with no response. After a few weeks of waiting, you realize the company has decided to ignore you. And they are far…
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Career Corner: Learning To Sell Is Critical For Your Career
Since the start of the pandemic, an increasing number of people have been taking their careers into their own hands by starting their own small businesses. But for people without experience, it can be hard to learn the right skills on the fly. One of the most important skills for any person on any career…
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Wiser Wealth: Four Ideas to Protect Your Cash From Inflation
We have seen a lot of dramatic financial shifts since the pandemic started, including the highest increase in inflation in over three decades just back in October. That is why the founder of the largest hedge fund in the world, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, is saying that leaving your cash just sitting around is…
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Career Corner: Colorado Offers Clues to How Much You Should Be Paid?
Applying for jobs is often unfairly weighted in favor of the employers, such as many companies not telling you what they pay until you are already interviewing with them. That makes it harder for employees to know if a job is worth their time, as well as whether the salary they are being offered is…
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Career Corner: The Best 2022 New Year’s Career Resolutions You Can Make
You can break bad habits or set new goals at any time, but many people view the start of a new year as the inspiration they need to start making changes. In addition to your health and your family, one of the best changes you can focus on is your career. Maybe you already have…
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Philly Tech Trends: 5 New Zoom Features You Should Be Using
If you have been working from home since the start of the pandemic then you probably feel like you have a pretty good handle on how Zoom works. But it is possible you fell into a comfortable routine with Zoom and didn’t notice or didn’t experiment with new features they have been introducing. If you…
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Career Corner: 10 Tips to Prepare for a Job Interview
No matter if it is your first time or your one-hundredth time, job interviews are stressful. There is so much opportunity for you to do the wrong thing and blow this opportunity that you want so badly. That is why preparation is key. You can’t anticipate everything that will happen in an interview, but you…
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Wiser Wealth: 8 Investment Challenges and Opportunities for 2022
The start of the pandemic was a highly unpredictable time for investors, with so many businesses either going into lockdown precautions or being so heavily impacted that they went bankrupt. This sent a lot of normally stable investments into a flux that nobody was used to. However, two years out from the pandemic, analysts have…
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Career Corner: 2021’s Biggest Job Trends that Will Continue into the New Year
At the start of the pandemic, it was popular to refer to the way things were as the “new normal.” However, with all the adjustments we all had to make to our lives, it was hard to predict what would actually be sticking around for the long-term. At this point, we have all lived and…
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Philly Tech Trends: How Connected Devices Provide Additional Safety as Employees Return to the Office
With the pandemic lasting for nearly two years at this point, there are many reasons offices might become hybrid even as they are willing to allow people back on location. Perhaps some employees strongly don’t feel safe to return yet. Or perhaps the company hired workers during the start of everything who fit in fine…
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