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Thankfully for your careers (and our jobs), there’s always new advice out there, and this week we went in search of just that. Check out the articles below for a collection of the most unique (but seriously helpful!) advice we’ve ever seen—but never heard before—along with our favorite tip from each article.
Read on to get inspired—and get the know-how you need to get ahead.
You don’t become a star doing your job. You become a star making things happen.
Just when you think you’ve got it 100% right, you can be taken down.
It’s not what you know—or who—it’s who knows what you know.
Do the jobs no one else wants to do.
Take pride in who you are, but leave room for the pride of others…
Whether you realize it or not, you’re self-employed.
Never, ever cook fish in the office microwave.
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