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☆ For ‘Golden Bachelor’ Fans, a Novel About a Golden Baking Contestant
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Jenny Rosenstrach | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Their house is infused with smells of tea loaves, biscuits and mince pies — because baking is Jennifer Quinn’s “superpower,” as Bernard tells anyone who will listen. Not a day goes by when she’s not measuring out flour and sugar on her old-fashioned kitchen scale, and turning out something sweet in their well-loved kitchen. She’s never had a career either, and watching Bernard fall asleep in front of the TV — and thinking of their marriage entering its final chapter — makes Jennifer yearn for something of her own. Spontaneously, secretly, she applies to be a contestant on “Britain Bakes,” the popular show Bernard pretends not to keep an eye on while reading. “I’ve spent my life being led less by great ambition and more by small victories,” she types on her application.

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☆ 5 cold-email templates for landing your dream clients and brand partnerships, from business owners who've used them
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Schlabs also reached out to clients she wanted to work with on social media. I am reaching out to see if you are in need of product photography and/or social media content creation. I know how overwhelming it can be to constantly need new content for social media and ads. He said he starts by compiling a list of 50 dream clients and gets their contact details from social media or their website. He suggested freelancers build their profiles on social media and Google before cold-emailing and prepare a "brief, simple, and straightforward" positioning statement to describe what they do.

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☆ Googlers prize 'psychological safety,' but it won't save them from layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Rebecca Knight | Shana Lebowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Some Google employees said the company's layoffs violated its commitment to psychological safety. Research suggests that psychological safety is critical to team success and helps drive creativity, build resiliency, and improve decision-making. "It's so important to be clear that psychological safety is not the same thing as job security," Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard Business School who pioneered research on psychological safety, told Insider. Google execs said psychological safety doesn't guarantee job securityAt the all-hands meeting, Google's leadership took issue with the notion that it breached its commitment to psychological safety. "Psychological safety is about interpersonal dynamics, not about economic or organizational reality," he told Insider, adding, "You can still have psychological safety without necessarily having job security."

☆ Why college coaches are a hot employee benefit
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Chris Taylor | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Then she came across an employee benefit her company offered: A "college coach." It is an intriguing employee benefit, in the era of the 'Great Resignation' and 'Quiet Quitting.' says Craig Copeland, director of wealth benefits research at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Getting help from college coaches is not to discount the critical work school counselors do every day. Since we are in the thick of application season, do not waste time in finding out if you have this employee benefit, especially if your teenager is looking ahead to college next fall.

Google employees are increasingly concerned that layoffs will hit their company, as rivals including Amazon and Meta slash more than 20,000 jobs. From the end of 2018 to earlier this year, the company added almost 100,000 full-time staff, nearly doubling the workforce. "There's a lot of people openly nervous," another Google employee said, while noting that Googlers have been posting internal memes to express their anxiety. "Performance plans are the next step if folks don't respond to the check-ins," a person familiar with the changes said. 'Google execs will want to cut people'Widespread layoffs at Google would be unprecedented.

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