Posts tagged career advice
Design Nation 2021: Building a Winning Product through Human-Centered Design with Sarah Alpern, VP of Design at LinkedIn

In this Design Nation interview with Sarah Alpern, VP of Design at LinkedIn, Sarah shares how her own personal design values and work at LinkedIn allows for her to embrace trust, accessibility, and equity in design. She also suggests what designers should ask themselves as they start to discover their own creative approaches and design philosophies, and explains how LinkedIn uses user research to design a product that is for everyone, by everyone.

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COVID, Politics, and a Hypnotic Blue Box: A Conversation with Win Cramer about Company Adaptability

Win Cramer is the CEO of JLab Audio, a leading personal audio company and one of the nation’s most highly-rated providers of accessible True Wireless headphones. In an interview with Bryan Wang, Cramer describes JLab’s unique growth and adaptability in a shifting political environment.

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How to Find Success at Your Internship

So you’ve just landed an internship – congratulations! What are the steps you can take to succeed in your role? While this piece is relevant for remote internships during the summer of 2020, the advice can be widely applied to any internship. Business Today explains how students and recent graduates can define their goals for the summer, get to to know the people around them, communicate with their managers, attend as many social and career events as they can, and connect with fellow interns.

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A Conversation With Debi Chirichella, EVP & CFO at Hearst Magazines: "We Are As Good As The People Who Work For Us"

Debi Chirichella is executive vice president, chief financial officer and director of global operations for Hearst Magazines, one of the world's largest publishers of monthly magazines, with 25 U.S. titles and close to 300 international editions.

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Barbara Byrne, former Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Barclays and Independent Director of CBS Corp, on the Importance of Perseverance

Barbara Byrne, former Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Barclays and Independent Director of CBS Corp, launched the second day of the International Conference in a fireside chat that looked back on her 42-year career. Byrne reflected on her personal career path, and in doing so, offered nuggets of wisdom to the conference attendees. 

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When You Do Good Work, Good Things Will Happen: Career Wisdom From John Lemmex, VP and CFO of Covestro

John Lemmex, VP and CFO of Covestro’s US operations, has worked in the chemical industry for more than three decades. He received a degree in chemistry from McMaster University and later pursued an MBA degree from Syracuse University. Both chemistry and business have played an integral role in Mr. Lemmex’s career and he has noted the many similarities between both disciplines. For him, “accounting was very much like chemistry, it involved a lot of balancing and logic”. 

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