Category: Managing Your Career

  • From Intern to Employee: The Right Moves to Make

    by Sylvie Woolf Getting an internship is one of the best things a student can do to jump-start their professional career. While a paid internship is always preferable, even unpaid internships offer valuable on-site job experience that just can’t be obtained through college. In fact, 61.4% of students in a 2014 study had previous internship experience before…

  • Digital Diploma Debuts at MIT

    Using Bitcoin’s blockchain technology, the Institute has become one of the first universities to issue recipient-owned virtual credentials.   Elizabeth Durant | Alison Trachy | Office of Undergraduate Education  October 17, 2017 In 1868, the fledgling Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Boylston Street awarded its first diplomas to 14 graduates. Since then, it has issued…

  • What Would You Sacrifice to Work from Home?

    Jessica HowingtonFlexJobs Content Manager Working from home is often the most esteemed and coveted of all flexible employment arrangements. With this in mind, if you had the potential to work remotely and make a choice on benefits, what would you sacrifice to work from home? Would you be willing to make a sacrifice? Should you…

  • 6 Telecommuting Hard Realities No One Tells You About

    BY ANNAMARIE HOULIS Photo credit: Pixabay TAGS: Work-life balance, Flexibility, Google, Slack Technologies, Forbes, FlexJobs, Workplace Before I took the leap to freelancing full time, I’d assumed that telecommuting would mean never wearing pants and getting to answer emails from the comfort of my bed. Certainly, there are those elements. But there’s a lot more to it than I’d never anticipated, and there are some legitimate challenges.…

  • Restrictions Coming To ‘Smart Bags’ Starting Jan. 15, 2018

    DECEMBER 12, 2017 ROSE PYLIDIS Lithium-ion batteries have a pretty awful reputation when it comes to plane travel. They’re the reason why hoverboards began spontaneously exploding and are now no longer allowed on flights. They’re also the culprit for the briefly released Samsung Galaxy Note7, which had similar instability issues and also banned from flights. Part…