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Paula Davis calls herself a recovering people-pleasing perfectionist achieve-aholic. As a commercial real estate lawyer, she tried to exceed expectations in her incredibly demanding job. One day she wound up in the hospital for stress-induced stomach aches.
Today Davis is the founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute, where she helps redesign work cultures at the likes of Walgreens and Coca-Cola. She studied positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and joined the university s team that taught resilience skills to the US Army.
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The drop in births intensifies a pre-pandemic trend of decreasing birth rates and fertility rates.
It could slow down the economy in the long term, but it could also result in a delayed baby boom.
The predicted baby boom is looking more like a baby bust.
While many thought a year locked up would lead to some serious babymaking, Brookings Institute economists Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine forecasted the opposite last June: The pandemic would lead to 300,000 to 500,000 fewer births in 2021, they said.
So far, their predictions are on track.
Nine months after the first lockdowns began in the US, the number of births in the country had declined by 7%, according to data provided to CBS News by health departments across more than 24 states. And fertility rates the number of live births a woman is expected to have over her lifetime are already lower in the first few months of 2021, said Christine Percheski, associat
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In his words, You should probably be a bit cognitively drained.
Smith is the head of inclusion, diversity, and engagement at content delivery network provider Akamai. He said mental exhaustion is a sign you were listening to the candidate and paying close attention to their answers.
As talent leaders across industries revamp their hiring protocols to be fairer, and to yield a diverse pool of candidates, Smith s test is one simple way to judge the strength of your interview process.
Hiring managers often gravitate toward candidates they d like to be friends with, which can create a more or less homogenous organization of people with similar backgrounds, interests, and personalities. But a job interview done well, at least shouldn t feel like a casual chat with a friend. It should be a space for rigorous assessment of whether this person will add value to the team.