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Salma Karina Hayat: Entrepreneurship Through Innovation, Adaptability, and Purpose
Entrepreneurship is rarely a straight path. Businesses change, technologies evolve, and customer expectations continue to develop. For entrepreneurs, the ability to adapt can be just as important as the original idea that started a company. Salma Karina Hayat offers an example of a professional journey shaped by entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, and a continued interest in creating practical solutions.
By Salma Karina Hayat9 days ago in Journal
Chris Sund and the 92 Percent Question
Open the requisition. Widen the funnel. Pay the premium. Fill the seat. That is how most companies think about capacity, and Chris Sund has spent more than a decade inside that cycle, first as a recruiter and now as president and chief operating officer of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare, and Nebula, an AI-powered talent sourcing platform. He also writes about leadership and workplace culture for Inc. and Forbes.
By Vipan K.10 days ago in Journal
I Brought an Iced Coffee to a Job Interview. A Recruiter Called It a Red Flag.
A recruiter named Caitlin posted a TikTok. She says she has spent 16 years hiring for Fortune 500 companies. Her point: when a candidate walks into an interview holding an iced latte, the interview can look like one stop in a day. Not the main event. The video drew responses on TikTok and LinkedIn. Some recruiters agreed. Some candidates pushed back.
By Jin10 days ago in Journal
The 3-Minute Rule and 9 Other Tiny Habits That Quietly Change Everything
At 6:40 the alarm goes off across the room. She gets up. Crosses the cold floor. Turns it off. The phone stays on the dresser. She drinks a glass of water. Opens the blinds. Light hits the wall. Then she sits at the desk, opens one document, sets a timer for twenty-five minutes, and writes one sentence. The sentence is not good. She keeps going.
By Jin11 days ago in Journal
I Got Promoted. Then I Learned Why Being Good at Your Job Makes People Hate You.
Leave Some Soup The day Alex Hale got promoted, the admin pointed him to a desk by the window. He set the cardboard box on the desk and didn’t unpack it. At noon, he stood in the cafeteria line, then carried his tray back to his old table. The people there made room for him. Frank asked, “You’re not going to sit in your corner office?” Alex said, “First, lunch.”
By Jin11 days ago in Journal
I Quit Every Beauty Hack on the Internet and Did 9 Boring Things Instead
On the bathroom sink: a tube of hand cream, a bottle of glycerin enema, a half-used bottle of vitamin C serum. Someone on the internet said to mix all three, put on gloves, and wait. You did. Your hands turned red and tight. The next morning, the skin between your fingers peeled. That is the first rule. If a beauty tip sounds like a pharmacy accident, it is.
By Jin11 days ago in Journal
I Stopped Perfecting My Slides at 2 A.M. and Learned the Only Rule That Matters at Work
At 11:40 p.m., Emily Hart changed the chart on slide three. Again. Navy to slate. Legend from right to bottom. Gridlines lighter by half a shade. Her eyes burned. On the corner of her desk, a bottle of Tums had one tablet left. Her succulent had a yellow tip. She had not watered it in two weeks.
By Jin12 days ago in Journal
The Undergraduate Field: Why Your 18-Year-Old Self Still Shows Up in Every Job Application
The Undergraduate Field In the recruiting dashboard, the undergraduate institution field sits open by default. The HR person checks 985/211. Then checks master’s or above. Clicks. The page refreshes. Eight hundred resumes become one hundred twenty. She picks up her cup. The water is cold. She does not drink. The next field is highest degree. She clicks again. Sixty-seven remain.
By Jin12 days ago in Journal
Creed and Nickelback Paid the Bills. That Is Part of the Story
The polite history of late 90s and early 2000s rock has a punch line ready before the needle drops. Creed. Nickelback. The format villains. The bands you are supposed to apologize for knowing. That punch line is easy and incomplete. Active rock after Seattle still needed songs that could live on a shop radio, a night shift, and a daytime hour. These two paid those bills. The sneer never killed the catalog because the catalog was never asking the sneer for permission.
By Overdrive Records12 days ago in Journal
The Cassette Was the Real Record Label
The official history of heavy music likes labels, catalog numbers, and the day the CD showed up looking like the future. Fine. That history skips the actual distribution system a lot of us used. A TDK. A Memorex. A handwritten spine. A second-generation copy that already hissed. The cassette was the real record label. It got Slayer across a county line before the shop had the jewel case. It got Metallica out of a bedroom and into a dash. It turned thrash into a chain letter with better riffs.
By Overdrive Records12 days ago in Journal
Load and Reload Were Not the Crime Scene People Pretend
The official story is a funeral. Metallica cut the hair. Metallica bought new clothes. Metallica made Load and Reload and the faithful called a priest. That story is tidy and mostly useful for people who need a villain. The tapes are messier. 1996 and 1997. Two records from a band that already owned the suburbs and decided to write like a hard rock band that still had a heavy right hand. Some of it is bloated. Some of it is costume. Some of it is songs that still work after the purity test got tired.
By Overdrive Records12 days ago in Journal
Jason Newsted’s Metallica Years Still Get Argued Wrong
The argument about Jason Newsted usually starts in the wrong room. People talk about the mix on …And Justice for All . People talk about the cliff he had to stand on after Cliff Burton. People talk about the way he left. All of that is real. It is also a lousy way to hear the years he actually played. From 1986 in the live room through Justice , the Black Album, and the touring machine that followed, Newsted was the floor under a band that was changing address. Gen X heard that floor even when the first studio pass tried to hide it.
By Overdrive Records12 days ago in Journal