HeyJaredGoing Places
Take control of your career in a changing economy- from pivots, personal brands, to portfolio careers and everything in between, with career strategist Janel Abrahami.
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Is "Corporate Dropout" the New High-Achiever Status Symbol? (opens the original)
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Two fun things to share with you before we dig into this week’s essay:I’m hiring the very first Going Places Media + Events Intern! This person will get a front-row seat to growing a creator business, conversations with some of the most accomplished and inspiring people out there, and ongoing career coaching from me. Please share this job posting with the savvy + scrappy college students in your life (must be able to be in-person in NYC one day/week).
The Career Crisis Survival Guide (opens the original)
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I’ve never told this story before, because I was afraid of putting my boss on blast, but the time has come.It was 2021, when we were just starting to see glimmers of life on the other side of lockdown. It was also a year after I went from: laid-off from one impressive HR job, through the Job Search From Hell, and hired by another headlines-making tech company onto the HR team.I was sitting in a closed-door HR meeting at this new job, and someone on the leadership team said, matter-of-factly, tha
Self-employment-maxxing for realists (opens the original)
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Somewhere in the last year, “self-employed” went from a tax status to an aesthetic, a whole vibe you could max out, the same way people talk about looksmaxxing or study-maxxing. Optimize the inputs, escape the cubicle, and win the “game.”But to simply apply a cheeky “maxxing” filter on the rise in self-employment curiosity (and necessity) implies that there’s a version of this you can optimize your way into winning. And that’s where I want to slow us down.I built three different maps of the self
What counts as plagiarism in the Creator Economy? (opens the original)
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Remember turnitin.com?Back in school, you’d submit your essay, hold your breath, and wait for that plagiarism percentage to load. And, something most folks seem to forget: your result was never a black-or-white “yes” or “no” in terms of “did you copy this word-for-word?”A paper could be 75% original wording and still get flagged, because plagiarism has never been about lifting someone’s exact words, it’s always been about the thinking behind them. If the argument, the structure, the “aha” wasn&
"High-Performer" on a PIP is the new rite of passage (opens the original)
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If you’ve never had a manager sit you down and tell you, with a straight face, that the “top performer” feedback you got every quarter for three years apparently wasn’t real — welcome. You’re either early in your career or extremely lucky. Everyone else, keep reading.Subscribe nowI want to talk to the high-performers specifically, because I don’t think you’ve been warned about this one. You did the college thing right, the promotions right, th
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