We're BAAAAAAACK! After a short oh-my-god-what-the-hell-is-happening-with-the-world inspired break (during which we basically just hid and consumed a reading diet made up solely of election related thinkpieces and analysis for several weeks), we've finally made it through the wilderness, Madonna style, and have returned to finding fun and interesting stuff for you so as to provide a brief mental palette cleanser during these turbulent times. Are you ready? Let's do this!
Thank god we found a way to mention the Gilmore Girls reboot in our Fast Five! The website HelloGiggles has published a piece about how Rory Gilmore’s journalism career has been affected by the very real job climate out there for freelance writers.
"As A Year In The Life moves forward, we continuously realize that while Rory has been a somewhat successful and accomplished freelancer in the past (she’s published with other big names like Slate), she is now somewhat floundering. This isn’t uncommon in the freelancing world, so in a way it’s pretty refreshing to see even she has trouble now and again."
Worth a read!
WHAT YOUR RESUME SHOULD LOOK LIKE IN 2016
If you’re about to give your resume a renovation, take a look at this Time.com guide to making your resume not only look its best, but also appeal more to recruiters and use technology to benefit you!
SHOULD YOU CHECK BUSINESS EMAILS OUTSIDE OF WORKING HOURS?
Are you one of those people who struggles to switch off when you’re out of the office, and find yourself checking your work email at all hours because you want to stay across everything? One man’s work/life balance disaster is another’s ‘going the extra mile’ - so to figure out whether checking business emails outside working hours is truly a good idea, Undercover Recruiter turned to an expert panel of career coaches and talent experts and asked their advice. What they had to say is worth a read!
HOW THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN BUILT AN IDENTITY DATABASE AND USED FACEBOOK ADS TO WIN THE ELECTION
Okay, okay, we sort of implied this Fast Five would be a US Election Free Zone during our introduction BUT it has been pretty fascinating looking at how social media, particularly Facebook, influenced the outcome of what was a bitterly fought and hugely impactful election period. This piece on Medium takes a look at how Trump campaign used social media to dissuade Clinton supporters from voting. If you are at all interested in digital marketing, this is definitely worth a read.
Let’s end this on an inspiring note, namely by watching something that features an epic triumph over adversity. If you haven’t already been watching clips from David Attenborough’s latest nature documentary Planet Earth II, then you have a LOT of catching up to do, and we strongly suggest you begin with the clip that took the world by storm the other week - Iguana vs Snakes.
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