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Gen Z Making money: From Social Media Influencers to Gig Economy

VC Cafe

In fact, when applying for their first full-time job, pay continues to be the most important thing to Gen Z (54%), followed at a distance by working for a company that does meaningful work (32%) and employee benefits (30%), according to a Workforce Institute research.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Since 2015, the rising interest abroad continues to contribute to steady growth. Information systems analyst and consultants start at a median salary of $74,048. The most sought-after hires are computer programmers and interactive media developers. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. billion in revenue.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015, the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) of the company.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). The Israeli innovation authority deems the sector suffers from ‘ chronic employee shortage’ The battle for talent has meant that companies had to lure potential employees with billboards, influencer videos, referral schemes, etc. billion , also a record amount.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

5- Tired being a salaried individual. I started my own business as I didn’t enjoy being a salaried individual who lived from one payroll to another. I started my business because I was a terrible employee. My company serves a purpose to keep families, young people, and employees, away from some of the sensitive things online.

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

Up and Running

I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur. This is Sabrina Parsons, the CEO of Palo Alto Software.

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Why enterprises (big and small) are slow to adopt social collaboration tools

The Next Web

A study conducted by Gartner last year stated that 80 percent of attempts to gain benefits from using social collaboration tools will not be seen until at least 2015. If even just one worker is not a social media user, that person will not enjoy the same level of comfort and ease in using a social collaboration tool at work.