This month marks perhaps one of the biggest career moves of the year in the Netherlands – or the world, for that matter. On April 30th, 2013, Prince Willem-Alexander will become His Majesty King Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau. And you thought you had a nice job title!
As one of UK’s Top 10 Most Engaged Women on LinkedIn, I was invited to a Twitter chat organised by @LinkedInUK to discuss LinkedIn’s survey on work/life balance and whether “Women can have it all?”. It was good to see 74% of women saying “Yes” to that question in LinkedIn’s survey.
In our search for happiness we tend to think that “having it all” is the panacea for all of life’s challenges and will magically bring us eternal happiness. This places our focus on external factors that can bring us happiness when happiness is a state of mind and internal.
The Madness has finally arrived! Upsets! Buzzer-beaters! Stats and predictions! As a data nerd and basketball junkie, this is one of my favorite times of the year, and finally, my two worlds have collided. Today, we’re announcing our pick to win the 2013 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament by analyzing the data of 200M+ member profiles on LinkedIn.
College basketball fans are a dedicated bunch, so we came up with a “dedication score” based on their LinkedIn Profiles to select who we think will be the winner. Here’s the formula:
What do you want at work? What does success mean to you? What is your biggest challenge at work? We asked these very questions (and more) to thousands of professional women around the world to better understand the challenges women face in their careers, what success means to them now and how that’s changed over the past 5-10 years.
While some stark differences emerged by country, we uncovered some key global trends. Today, almost two thirds of working women say that success is about achieving the right work-life balance. This is a major shift from 5 to 10 years ago when ‘salary’ topped that list along with an ‘interesting job’ and ‘responsibility’. Interestingly, work-life balance wasn’t really on the radar then.
I love big data. As an Insights Analyst at LinkedIn, I have the incredible opportunity to work with a rich set of professional data shared by our 200 million+ members. In honor of Valentine’s Day, I used my data wrangling skills to find out just where professionals who love their work live.
Since Valentine’s Day is all about love, passion and dreams, I looked at English-speaking professionals around the globe to see how many included “love”, “passion” and “dream job” in their LinkedIn profiles. This is what I found.
