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Career Development

Career Contessa

Career advice and job search site aimed at women, with articles on job hunting, salary negotiation, and workplace topics, plus a job board. Articles are free; courses and coaching are paid.

#career advice#women#job search#salary negotiation
careercontessa.comAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens
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Job Boards

The Muse

Job search site combining job listings with free career advice articles, company profiles, and coaching services. Job searching and the advice library are free; one-on-one coaching is paid.

#job board#career advice#company profiles
themuse.comAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens
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Career Search & Job Hunting

Career Sidekick

Career advice blog written by recruiters, covering resumes, interviews, job hunting, and career change, with articles and guides free to read.

#career advice#interviews#resume#recruiters
careersidekick.comAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

"Hushed coping": the quiet way women sabotage themselves at work

Fast Company article on how women may quietly manage stress at work in ways that hold back their careers.

Why I recommend it: Fast Company sometimes limits free reads. I couldn't open the page, so the description comes from its title.

#career advice#workplace#women
fastcompany.comAdded Sep 25, 20260 opens
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Career Development

Awesome at Your Job

Pete Mockaitis' long-running podcast on practical workplace skills: communication, productivity, managing up and career growth, with hundreds of free episodes.

Why I recommend it: Episodes are free; the site also sells courses and coaching, which are clearly separated. Guests sometimes promote their own books.

#podcast#communication#productivity#career advice
awesomeatyourjob.comAdded Sep 25, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

How I'd Start My Engineering Career Today

LeadDev advice piece on what matters for new software engineers now that AI has changed which coding skills are valued.

Why I recommend it: One author's opinion. The claim that most coding skills are "nearly worthless" is deliberately provocative.

#software engineering#early career#ai skills#career advice
leaddev.comAdded Sep 24, 20260 opens
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Community & Government Resources

BobaTalks

Free one-to-one mentorship for students with mentors from companies like Microsoft, Atlassian, Amazon and Riot, plus a Discord community. Over 13,000 students and 17,000+ sessions booked.

Why I recommend it: Free to book a mentor session. Small mentor roster (about 60), so pick your question carefully and come prepared — you will get more out of one focused conversation than a general chat.

#mentorship#students#community#discord#career-advice#tech-careers#free
bobatalks.comAdded Sep 21, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

How AI Is Reshaping Entry-Level Tech Jobs (IEEE Spectrum)

IEEE Spectrum article on how AI is shifting entry-level engineering work toward higher-order thinking, review and collaboration skills, and what recent graduates can do about it.

From the site: How can recent grads navigate a job market transformed by AI? Learn how to make AI work for you, not against you.

Why I recommend it: Free to read on IEEE Spectrum. Practical if you are early-career: it describes what junior work is turning into rather than predicting job counts.

#ai-and-jobs#career-advice#entry-level#future-of-work#job markets#new-grad#software-engineering
IEEE SpectrumAdded Sep 21, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Dataspace Recruiter Resources

Hiring guides, salary context and role descriptions for data positions, published by a data-focused staffing firm.

From the site: As data science recruiters, we love share our insights on the process. Here's a collection of our best resources and tips for recruiters.

Why I recommend it: This is written for recruiters, not candidates — read it that way. It shows you how data roles get scoped and screened before you ever see the posting.

#career-advice#data#data-jobs#free-resource#hiring#interview#job markets#job-descriptions#recruiting#salary#talent
DataspaceAdded Sep 18, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Emerging AI Roles Companies Are Hiring For

A breakdown of ten new AI job titles — from agent orchestration to evaluations specialists — with what each role actually does and what hiring managers screen for.

From the site: Discover the 10 fastest-growing AI roles in 2026. Learn who to hire for ethics, UX, prompt engineering, and more. Stay ahead with AI talent.

Why I recommend it: Written to help companies hire, which makes it a clear read on the titles and skills being asked for right now if you are aiming at AI work.

#ai#ai-careers#ai-jobs#career-advice#career-change#hiring#job markets#job-descriptions#job-search#machine-learning#tech-jobs
index.devAdded Sep 18, 20260 opens
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People to Follow

Reid Hoffman

Site of LinkedIn's co-founder: essays, podcasts and books on starting companies, careers and AI.

From the site: A hub of all my posts and essays online. I write about entrepreneurship, civics, and intellectual life.

Why I recommend it: He built the platform your professional life probably runs on, so his writing on networks is worth reading closely. He also invests in AI companies he writes about.

#entrepreneurship#networking#podcast#ai#career-advice
Reid HoffmanAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
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Resume Help

Write a Killer Résumé in the AI Era: 5 New Rules! (Jeff Su)

Jeff Su lays out five updated résumé rules for a hiring process where AI screens first — what to keep, what to cut and how to make results easy to spot.

#ai#ats#career-advice#career-change#free#interviews#job markets#job-applications#job-search#resume#video
youtube.comAdded Sep 16, 20260 opens
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AI & Assistive Tools

Jeff Su

Jeff Su's site collects his practical AI and productivity tips for working professionals — templates, workflows and short guides drawn from his popular videos.

#ai#productivity#career-advice#templates#workflows#job-search#tools#professional-development#tutorials#free
jeffsu.orgAdded Sep 16, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Discover New Opportunities with AI-Powered Job Search (LinkedIn)

LinkedIn's own free guide to its AI job search, including how to describe the role you want in plain language instead of guessing keywords.

Why I recommend it: Two minutes here changes what LinkedIn shows you all week.

#ai#career-advice#free#how-to#job markets#job-board#job-search#linkedin
linkedin.comAdded Sep 15, 20260 opens
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Interview Prep

Strategic Judgment in Anthropic and OpenAI PM Interviews

A free breakdown of what AI-company product interviews actually test: judgment about which problems are worth solving, not memorised frameworks or polished STAR stories.

Why I recommend it: Read this if you keep getting "not strategic enough" feedback in senior interviews.

#free#interview-prep#product-management#ai#career-advice#behavioral-interview#strategy
nancychu.coAdded Sep 15, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Is AI Making It Harder to Start Over or Land Your First Job?

A free article on why breaking in or changing careers feels harder right now, with what job seekers can control in an AI-heavy hiring market.

Why I recommend it: Reassuring and practical if the search is knocking your confidence.

#ai#career-advice#career-change#entry-level#free#job markets#job-search#new-grad
linkedin.comAdded Sep 15, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

The AI Engineering Skills Map: Shaping the Build

Andrew Ng on the skills that let a developer shape what gets built, not just implement someone else's spec: driving the build loop, product decisions, communication and high-agency ownership.

Why I recommend it: A clear answer to "what should I actually learn next" in AI work.

#ai#free#skills#career-advice#ai-engineering#product-management#professional-development
deeplearning.aiAdded Sep 15, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Hiring for Durable Skills to Build Teams That Last

A free conversation with Veronica Salcido of GrowthAssistant on hiring for durable skills that outlast specific tools, and what that means for how candidates present themselves.

Why I recommend it: Hear how a hiring leader actually judges candidates, then mirror that language in your applications.

#career-advice#free#hiring#interview-prep#job markets#recruiting#skills#video
youtube.comAdded Sep 15, 20260 opens
FreeArticle
Career & Professional Optimization

Why Is It So Hard to Find a Job Right Now?

Analysis of the current hiring market, why applications disappear, and what job seekers can control.

Why I recommend it: Read this when you start blaming yourself for a slow search. Some of it is the market, not you.

#article#career#career-advice#career-development#free#hiring-market#job markets#job-search#labor-market#reading
curatedambition.substack.comAdded Sep 12, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

You're Wasting Some of Your Best Profile Real Estate

Zoë Hartsfield on the underused parts of a LinkedIn profile and how to rewrite them so they work for you instead of sitting empty.

Why I recommend it: Most people fill in the headline and stop. Fifteen minutes on the sections she names does more for your inbound than another round of applications.

#article#career#career-advice#career-development#free#linkedin#personal-branding#profile-optimization#reading
linkedin.comAdded Sep 11, 20260 opens
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Community & Government Resources

CareerVillage

A free nonprofit platform where students and career changers ask career questions and get answers from volunteer professionals, plus AI-assisted coaching tools.

Why I recommend it: This is the closest free thing to having someone in the industry answer your question honestly. If you are early in your career and have nobody to ask, start here.

#ai#career-advice#community#community-resources#free#free-resource#mentoring#mentorship#networking#nonprofit#social-impact#students
careervillage.orgAdded Sep 11, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

How to Spot Remote Roles and Build Your Career — Michelle Coulson

LinkedIn article from Michelle Coulson on identifying remote positions, asking the right questions in interviews, and building a career while working from anywhere.

Why I recommend it: Remote work is still a differentiator, but not every "remote-friendly" job is what it seems. Coulson gives practical signals to look for before you accept.

#article#career#career-advice#career-development#free#interview-tips#job-search#linkedin#reading#remote-jobs#remote-work#work-from-home
linkedin.comAdded Sep 9, 20260 opens
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Career & Professional Optimization

Self Made Millennial (YouTube)

HR professional and recruiter sharing practical, no-nonsense job search, interview, and career advice. Hosted by Madeline Mann.

In plain terms: This YouTube channel is hosted by an HR professional and recruiter. You can watch practical videos with advice on job searching, interviewing, and building your career.

Why I recommend it: Start here if you want recruiter-side truth about how your resume is actually read.

#career#career-advice#career-development#expert#free#interviews#job markets#job-search#person-to-follow#recruiting#resume#video#youtube
youtube.comAdded Aug 29, 20260 opens