Posts by youandthem
You & Them x Stoked
We started off the month just right: meeting and chatting with super amazing people! We have partnered with our friends over at STOKED NYC to create a series of workshops geared towards professional development for their students. Stoked is a non-profit organization that creates a community of fearless leaders through mentorship, opportunity and…
Read MoreThe Secret to Bragging About Yourself at Work Without Looking Cocky
By Stacey Lastoe Runners are notorious for talking about how fast they are, so I could really relate to Lifehacker’s Patrick Allen’s example of how a runner should best brag about himself: compare his speed or race time with a previous finish and not with another runner’s time. Cognitive Psychologist, Carolien Van Damme, whose study…
Read MoreJob of the Week! – January 11th
Entreprenurial Client Champion YOU: You are a seasoned account manager who can hit the ground running. You are always conscious of client needs and ways to help their business while at the same time growing your own. Your entreprenurial spirit and know-how are the golden ticket to success! THEM:They are an eccentric and independent,…
Read MoreNobody Cares How Hard You Work
Will we ever decouple perceived effort and long hours with our rewards system? By Oliver Burkeman As you sink into the couch, or slide onto the barstool, at the end of an exhausting workday, it’s hard not to experience the warm glow of self-congratulation. After all, you put in the hours, cranked through the to-do…
Read MoreStop Keeping Score
Keeping Score at Work Isn’t Doing You Any Favors (Even if You Have the Most Points) By Darius Foroux Who does the most work in the office? Who gets the most attention? Who did most of the cleaning in the house? Who bought the most presents? Who called who the most? The answer is this:…
Read MoreJob of the Week! – January 4th
ACD Copy That Thinks Outside the Box YOU: You are visionary storyteller, who can weave a narrative into a compelling and impactful driving force. Your vision, way with words and strategic mind, are truly inspirational and are the winning factors in your success as a creative as well as an rallying force to those who…
Read MoreThe 1% Rule That'll Make Reaching Big Goals Feel Easy
By Alyse Kalish It’d be pretty nice if you could snap your fingers and get what you wanted, just like that—get in shape, land a promotion, finish 20 books. But, as life goes, it doesn’t work this way. Change takes time—getting in shape means a lifetime commitment to changing your diet and exercise, getting a…
Read MoreA New Routine For a New Year
Work. Walk 5 Minutes. Work. By Gretchen Reynolds Stuck at your work desk? Standing up and walking around for five minutes every hour during the workday could lift your mood, combat lethargy without reducing focus and attention, and even dull hunger pangs, according to an instructive new study. The study, which also found that frequent,…
Read MoreHow To : Reflect on 2016 to Start the New Year Right
This strategy will not only tell you why you missed the mark in 2016, but what you will need to change for a successful 2017 By Marcel Schwantes Before you hop on a plane, train, or car for the holidays, carve out some “sacred space,” away from the craziness of holiday parties and Christmas shopping, to…
Read MoreJob of the Week! – December 28th
Proactive Program Manager and strategic thinker YOU: You’re a great listener, organized thinker and a strong communicator — as a born collaborator, connector and project manager, you value clear communication, efficiency and productivity above all else.You are the internal connective tissue between business operations and project work and teams. You hold the high level understanding…
Read MoreThe 2-Minute Rule That'll Make it So Much Easier for You to Focus
By Abby Wolfe While I know multitasking’s bad, the holiday season really brings it out in me. I’ll be in the middle of planning out a program for work and suddenly think, “Oh! I bet my mom would love that hamburger-shaped bicycle bell I saw for Christmas this year.” And then I’ll stop what I’m…
Read MoreHow to Have Tough Conversations with Employees
Don’t let problems fester. Address them head-on with this simple formula. By Robin Camarote Conversations on poor performance, outcomes, or conduct may not seem like a big deal until it’s your turn as a manager to initiate one. And textbook advice on how to have these conversations is just not helpful. Invoking the Nike tagline…
Read MoreJob of the Week! – December 21st
Ahead of the curve biz dev Hustla YOU: You are a tenacious and charismatic, high-performing Biz Dev Executive. A dynamic team player with a great sense of humor and desire to collaborate with others to produce work of the highest caliber, you thrive on identifying innovative ways to expand into new areas of opportunity. A…
Read MoreDo You Hear What I Hear?
HAPPY HOLIDAZE! Soundtracks for Reflection At You & Them, we know that the holidays are not just about taking stock of the material things we have & want, but also the emotional, physical & professional – which go hand-in-hand. To help us all get through the next few weeks, we asked four friends of You & Them to…
Read MoreHow To: Feel More Productive Every Single Day Without Doing Any Extra Work
By Alyse Kalish For the longest time, I defined my productivity by the quantity of things I completed. If I edited five articles, responded to 10 emails, and attended two meetings, I had a successful day. If I spent a good chunk of my day researching and writing one single article, I felt guilty leaving…
Read More5 Questions Successful Job Searchers Always Ask Themselves
By Pat Mastandrea The annoying thing about the job search is that it can feel like a full-time job in and of itself—and that’s because it kind of is! A truly effective search takes time, focus, patience, and a lot of hard work and vigilance. As they say, good things come to those who wait…
Read MoreJob of the Week! – December 14th
Designing experiences that aid and delight users YOU: You are a design champion. When you look out into the world, you see opportunity at every glance for how smarter design could make for a more useful and joyful human experience. You have taste and talent for making your work look as good as it communicates.…
Read MoreHow To: Stay Positive Around Negative People
By Jennifer Nelson I used to travel a lot for business. These were expensed trips where I’d be wined and dined in cool places like San Francisco, Lexington, Kentucky and Taos, New Mexico. The cities were all so different from my suburban life in Florida. But then my ex would pick me up from the airport…
Read MoreReminder: You Don't Always Need to Explain Why You're Saying "No"
By Alyse Kalish One of my biggest fears is the word “no.” Seriously, it’s a terrifying phrase—and because of this, I’ve said yes to things I wasn’t qualified to do, things I really didn’t want to do, and things that have prevented me from saying yes to something I’d rather do. We want to be…
Read MoreJob of the Week! – December 7th
Digitally Savvy Crusader to design strategy and promote global beauty brand YOU: You are a well-rounded and digitally-savvy professional, with experience leading 360 digital campaigns management and an understanding of how to leverage and amplify messaging with social media to get positive results within the e-commerce landscape. THEM: They are a manufacturer and marketer of high-end…
Read MoreWhy Pride is Good
Try to forget about the idea of pride as a deadly sin. The latest research shows that pride can be a powerful motivational force. By Christian Jarrett It’s true that “hubristic pride” – when you feel pleased in your own abilities – can be harmful and indicative of an inflated ego. But “authentic pride,” which is…
Read More16 Small Ways You Can Improve Your Life in Less than 30 Minutes
By Alyse Kalish Improving your life doesn’t have to be about making one big gesture. Instead, it’s something you can constantly work on—and it typically comes down to the small things you do every day. I understand that no one has all the time in the world to think about self-improvement when there’s work and…
Read MoreJob of the Week – November 29th
Interactive Designer with a tight aesthetic YOU: You design user-centered, content driven products that offer intuitive utility and human connectivity. You deliver jaw dropping graphic design with pixel perfect accuracy and strive to create modern, well-crafted high performance websites. THEM: A Brooklyn-based ‘agency’ that focuses solely on user-centered websites and platforms. If you’re in to…
Read MoreHow To: Write a Standout Cover Letter
The Cover Letter Formula That Skyrocketed My Interviews From 0% to 55% By Lisa Siva When I first moved to New York, I was a cover letter machine. I wrote to every sir or madam with a job opening. I expressed my interest in positions for which I had none. I waxed rhapsodic about companies…
Read MoreJob of the Week! – November 22nd
Produce design & interactive projects for some of the world’s best brands YOU: You are a Project Manager / Producer with agency experience and the skills needed to successfully take design and interactive projects from inception to completion. In addition to a positive attitude, sense of humor and impeccable communication skills, you can manage multiple…
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