The Top Podcasts for the Busy Young Professional

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Let’s be honest.  Between building a career, establishing a professional network, and maintaining a daily routine that challenges even the best schedulers, the life of a young professional hardly leaves time to rest; let alone read a 200 to 300-page book. So, what is an eager to learn young professional to do? Listen to a…

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Get Involved in Your Community!

Flowers

As we enter into the month of April we start to slowly come out of our winter hibernation. We dream of warmer weather and signs of life start to return back to the area – birds chirping, flowers blooming, and the trees beginning to bring back that lovely green we have missed for months.  …

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5 Ways to Be More Productive When Working From Home

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In today’s work culture, more businesses are turning toward remote work and allowing their employees to work from home offices. This shift towards remote workers has increased employee satisfaction, freed up office space, and studies have shown that remote workers are more productive than office-based employees. One reason for this uptick in productivity is because…

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PYP Announces their new member benefit: The Small Business Scholarship

Pittsburgh Young Professionals is proud to announce the Small Business Sponsorship. This unique sponsorship was created to provide our members working for small companies and startups the opportunity to raise awareness of their brand across the Pittsburgh Young Professional’s Network. The Small Business selected to receive the award will receive the following items for 2018: Company’s…

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How old is too old?

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Reese Witherspoon regrammed a post from @therosepepper. The post is a picture of a sign saying “I’m 2 old 2 wonder if Kiki loves me. I’m still trying to find out if Annie’s ok.” I died laughing, then found myself aimlessly browsing through the comments where the hilarious @jmollard says, “still trying to convince ms…

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Networking Is a Dirty Word

The word networking has a bad reputation, and I think most of us can understand why. If you’ve attended more than a dozen networking events, you’ve probably experienced what I call the “on-site seller.” Picture this… You walk into a swanky new downtown restaurant with the hopes of making meaningful connections. You sign in, receive…

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