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The Biggest Career Mistake Students Make In School (opens the original)
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This edition is sponsored by Ladder Internships.Ask a room full of ambitious students what they want to become and you’ll hear the usual answers.Doctor.Lawyer.Investment banker.Software engineer.Founder.Ask them why.The room usually goes quiet.The uncomfortable truth is that most students spend years preparing for careers they’ve never actually experienced.They choose university majors based on prestige. They apply for courses because they’re “good at maths” or “good at science”. They spend thou
Sotravel Summer Central Asia 2027 Trips: Now Live! (opens the original)
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AI Can Do the Task. Can You Still Lead? (opens the original)
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Ask ten graduating students what worries them about the job market, and at least eight will mention AI somewhere in the answer. Not because they cannot use it. Most of them use it daily to draft, research, summarize and code faster than any generation before them. The worry is different. If a tool can do the task, what exactly are they being hired to do.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N4Sw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3
What a Home Office Renovation Taught Me About Building My Career in a Portfolio Manner (opens the original)
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Hey future leadersThis year, I invested around US$9,000 into renovating my home office as part of a sponsored partnership. It was not a small expense. In fact, it effectively wiped out our operating profits and took a meaningful chunk out of what we had built this year. Financially, it was a painful decision in the short term. But I think it was worth it.More importantly, it taught me something about how I want to build my career.For a long time, I thought about my career in a relatively convent
Why the Best High School Students Are No Longer Waiting Until University to Build Their Careers (opens the original)
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This edition is presented in partnership with Ladder Internships.For years, we’ve told ambitious students the same story.Study hard. Get good grades. Enter a top university. Then start thinking about internships.That advice made sense twenty years ago. It makes far less sense today.The students who stand out in university admissions, scholarship applications and even future job searches are increasingly those who have already demonstrated they can create value in the real world. Not because they
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