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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The 50 best U.S. companies to work for as a new dad

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BY SIMON ISAACS

1 day ago

There has been a steep change in American family life in the last 30 years.

Across the country, most children now grow up in dual-income households where the division of labor at home is, increasingly, split between parents. Forward-thinking companies are waking up to this fact and are adapting to the evolving demands of their male and female employees.

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Fatherly's 50 Best Places To Work For New Dads is a snapshot of the changing American workplace. From Google to Patagonia to Bank of America, this report spotlights how America’s top companies are providing progressive benefits for new parents who want a healthy work-life balance. See the full list here, and check out the infographic below.

The 50 best companies in the U.S. for working dads

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SIMON ISAACS

Simon has dedicated the last 12+ years spearheading cause-related marketing efforts for nonprofits, foundations and corporations including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rock the Vote and The Coca-Cola Company. He has launched more than a dozen...more

Millennials: Here are the best job titles to pursue in 2015

A group of young professionals speak at a conference.

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This article was created using data from CareerCast, a job search portal that offers extensive local, niche and national job listings from across North America.

Millennials are poised to bring significant change to the workforce.

For one thing, millennial employees are more highly educated than any previous generation. And while it can be a shock entering the "real world," employment prospects aren’t looking too shabby, especially for those after a job in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, according to a recent report by CareerCast.

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Many companies will have to take on the challenge of developing creative ways to attract and retain millennial employees — especially as this group creates the largest population in the workforce.

Engaging with millennials can either make or break a company’s future.

Engaging with millennials can either make or break a company’s future.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates there are 4.5 million 16-to-19-year-olds, 13.6 million 20-to-24-year-olds and 31.2 million 25-to-34-year-olds currently employed. Though the pay for entry-level positions in many fields may not be excessive, the possibility for speedy upward mobility can create added value.

Millennial dream jobs may be more than just a dream: Find out which jobs CareerCast named the best jobs for millennials in 2015 below.

The best jobs for millennials

Advertising account executive

Think Mad Men for millennials. Those in this position act as the liaison between advertising clients and the agency itself.

Annual median salary: $115,750

Projected growth outlook: 12%

Civil engineer

The perfect example of the E in STEM. Civil engineers deal with the design, construction and maintenance of physical entities enhancing the natural environment, such as bridges, dams, canals and roads.

Annual median salary: $79,340
Projected growth outlook: 20%

Computer systems analyst

By analyzing the efficiency of IT systems, identifying problems, designing solutions and implementing those strategies, computer systems analysts are able to solve business problems using technology.

Annual median salary: $79,680

Projected growth outlook: 25%

Data scientist

Data scientists extract information from large volumes of data in order to use it for analysis and eventual implementation. This position is crucial to many fields of research including biology, medicine, social science and humanities.

Annual median salary: $124,149

Projected growth outlook: 15%

Financial planner

Think budget organizer to the extreme. Financial planners prepare outlines for their clients’ financial future, including cash flow, retirement, investment and tax levels.

Annual median salary: $67,520

Projected growth outlook: 27%

Market research analyst

You know those focus groups they show in movies? That’s market research, and the results of those intimate chats become numbers and data that is pored over, analyzed and organized before being presented to the client. Often the information is highly useful and people-driven, and the position is one of the top in terms of demand and growth rate.

Annual median salary: $60,300

Projected growth outlook: 32%

Physical therapist

Physical therapists examine, diagnose, develop plans of action and treat patients with physical ailments that can be alleviated or decreased through therapy.

Annual median salary: $79,860

Projected growth outlook: 36%

Social media manager

The most quintessentially millennial job out there, social media managers develop social media strategies for companies, execute media activity and monitor reach and outcomes.

Annual median salary: $46,169

Projected growth outlook: 13%

Software engineer

Software engineers design, develop and maintain software (i.e. what runs your computer, phone and tablet).

Annual median salary: $93,350

Projected growth outlook: 22%

Statistician

A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics, for example in analytics, research studies or economics.

Annual median salary: $75,560

Projected growth outlook: 27%

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Monday, June 22, 2015

To succeed while working for a tech startup, master cultural fit first

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BY QUORA3 DAYS AGO

This question originally appeared on Quora.

What are some cultural faux pas when working at a tech startup?

Answer below by Quora user Amin Ariana, technical hacker, founder and advisor.

In my opinion, the biggest faux pas might be claiming absolute knowledge about anything.

In a tech environment, even if you're 100% confident about X being true, you express it with, "I think X might be true" or, "Let's try it with the assumption of X and see if it works," so that you allow room for the possibility that others may contribute something you did not think of.

For example, saying "... and that's the best solution for that problem" during an interview, without taking a few seconds to ponder and argue it logically or without claiming that it's plausible that you're wrong, is one way to slash your odds of being hired.

A few other situations that could be considered cultural faux pas at a tech startup:

Behavioral faux pas

In one word: inaction.

In one word: inaction.
Having a "drag" instead of a "lift" effect on the take-off momentum of the team. This is evident either by analyzing things to death or getting stuck in the "storming" phase of team building, effectively creating an endless competition for control over whose idea will ultimately be considered.
Asking what others make (salary-wise).
Comparing the startup to your ex-employer.
Winning an argument using the "experience" trump card.
Biased favoritism if you're in a position of authority.
Not participating in rotating weekend roles, such as being on-call for production deployments. (In general though, startups are more immune to bystander apathy due to their small size.)
In general, complaining [about anything] without suggesting alternatives.
Looking to blame someone when an emergency arises instead of focusing on finding a solution.
Coming to work at 1 p.m. and leaving at 4 p.m., while flying a remote control helicopter the entire time in between.

Technical faux pas

Particularly in early startups, it's uncool to critique how flakey or "hacky" someone's work might be.

Particularly in early startups, it's uncool to critique how flakey or "hacky" someone's work might be. In larger organizations, quality of code matters — but in a startup, you're putting together minimal functions quickly to validate theories, so speed is a priority. Spending too much time "gold plating" a hack or criticizing someone for putting together "unmaintainable hacks" are both premature and eyebrow-raising. Below are a few technical faux pas to avoid.

Making a technical decision based on a faith-based assumption that is not explicitly disclosed to everyone else verbally.
Missing a deadline.
Refactoring code (especially when you break something) if there were no automated tests.
Expecting others to test your brilliant code for you.
Breaking the build.
Writing brute-force (badly designed) algorithms, even when hacky code (badly organized) is acceptable.
Premature optimization or scaling.
Abstraction and generalization of a solution for a wider scope of use-cases before seeing a repeated pattern of need. Generally expressed, a platform or an abstract solution should only follow a few, similar killer apps or concrete needs. Joel Spolsky describes people committing this faux pas as Architecture Astronauts.

Organizational faux pas

A few things to avoid from an organizational perspective.

Making decisions based on what the competition is doing instead of based on the vision.
Making technological decisions based on investor advice.
Mentioning the words "training" and "customer" in the same sentence.
Any organizational anti-pattern.
Any project management anti-pattern.

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