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She Quit Her High-Paying Job to Take a Risk. Now She’s a Top 1% Earner.

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Working in tech, Nancy Marzouk was used to being the only woman in the room. But that doesn’t mean she liked it. “I felt like I constantly overperformed, yet was under potentially more scrutiny than other people, if that makes sense,” said Marzouk, 52. She’d gone to school for fine arts, but fell into advertising after undergrad and grew to love the industry. As she rose in the ranks at…

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Welcome to the Era of Career Fog, Where Workers Feel Paralyzed

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For many workers, career dissatisfaction isn’t loud or dramatic. It shows up as uncertainty, hesitation, and a lingering sense of being off track without knowing how to course-correct. New national survey data from MyPerfectResume suggests this feeling has become widespread. More than half of U.S. workers say they lack clarity about their long-term career direction, and most have questioned…

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From Resumes to Salary Negotiations, Here’s How Gen Z Workers Rely on Parents

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Gen Z is entering the workforce in a job market defined by uncertainty, rapid change, and higher expectations for how quickly early-career employees should perform. Many are meeting that challenge with a new kind of support system: their parents. Zety’s Career Copiloting Report reveals the surprising ways parents are guiding Gen Z through the job market. From first applications to negotiating…

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Why Your Manager Comes Off Cold — and Why That’s a Good Thing

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While empathy is widely celebrated as a hallmark of good leadership, managers may benefit from keeping some emotional distance. New research from Zety and SIGMA Assessment Systems suggests that in environments where difficult calls are routine, emotional detachment can be an asset. Analyzing nearly two decades of SIGMA’s proprietary Jackson Personality Inventory – Revised (JPI-R) assessments…

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