Morning Advantage: The Right Way to Get Fired
HBR.org 2012-07-05
We hope it never happens to you. But, should you be fired, this straightforward listicle from US News's "Ask a Manager" column will help you navigate those first, chaotic moments. Unexpected advice includes making your health appointments while you're still on employer insurance, and applying for unemployment benefits — which you can get even if you've been fired. You can also negotiate how your firing will be portrayed to future employers. And what do you do after you've successfully not sent out a bridge-burning all-staff email? For more on processing the stark emotions a firing can elicit, we recommend this classic HBR article. The key: keeping what the authors call an "assignment" mentality, in which each job is "a stepping-stone, a temporary career-building project."
Social Campaigns on Tuesdays Earn Highest Engagement (Marketing Profs)
This chart-heavy post contains a few surprises — even for the social marketing guru. Yes, it highlights the truism that more followers doesn’t equal better engagement. But it also gets granular. One such nugget: the best time to launch a Facebook campaign is between 10 pm and midnight Eastern time, yet that is Facebook’s least-used timeslot by marketers. Similarly, Friday is the most popular day with Twitter marketers, but it’s the day you’re least likely to find an engaged audience.
Obamacare and the Coming Entrepreneurship Boom (Inc.)
This item just in from HBR editorial intern Carla Yengo-Kahn. Are you a corporate employee by day, wistful freelance entrepreneur by night? If so, the Supreme Court's approval of the Affordable Care Act may have some serious implications for your career. One on hand, the bill will result in higher insurance costs for small businesses. But the guarantee of health care that can’t "be yanked away or rendered unaffordable by illness" might help you summon the courage you need to quit that corporate job and set off on a more independent path.
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