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A 14-year career journey back to Salesforce

PowerToFly

It was 2002, and Salesforce — an up-and-coming technology company — had one product, a couple hundred employees, and an idea for cloud-based computing. “It That sales energy “I started in sales right out of college,” shared Jodi, who studied Public Relations before landing her first role as a software salesperson.

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How Siemen’s Pallavi Vuppalapati Fearlessly Faces Challenges

PowerToFly

Pallavi became one of five girls in her engineering program at a university in South India. Using these challenges to push her rather than deter her, Pallavi received top grades, graduated, and immediately landed a job in computer engineering where she continued to gain experience, though she admits that it was hard to scale up. “As

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A Brief Timeline of People at Work [Infographic]

Visier - Talent Acquisition

A shift in production methods from hand to machine spurred by innovations like the steam engine and the cotton gin saw workers move onto factory production lines employing large numbers of workers who might never meet the owner of the company. Energy revolution (from late 1800s). Modern era (2002-present).

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Does Your New Hire Really Need a Degree?

Glassdoor for Employers

That’s a 43 percent increase since 2002, and the same percentage as those that held a bachelor’s degree in the 1960s. They’re willing to learn what you have spent so much time and energy discovering,” he says. I’ve known of employers who were blown away by senior-level software engineers only to find out they can’t actually code.