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Business Wars Daily

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Business Wars Daily

Audible

Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today is Monday, April 25 and we're looking at LinkedIn vs. Twitter.

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0:00.0

Wonderly Plus subscribers can listen to Business Wars daily ad-free right now.

0:04.8

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0:08.5

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0:11.5

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0:16.1

Macmillan's free online forum provides a safe space to get support from both experts and others who've been

0:22.0

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0:27.5

from dealing with side effects such as hair loss and fatigue, to money worries and managing work,

0:32.9

or talking with children about a diagnosis. There are different forums on cancer types or experiences,

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0:46.7

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0:49.2

One, three. Wondery.

1:08.5

From Wondery, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Monday, April 25th.

1:12.0

If you've ever struggled with trying to explain a gap on your resume because of caregiving or any of the other myriad reasons people step away from work,

1:17.5

LinkedIn now has a way to help potential employers understand why. Last month, the company

1:23.3

introduced a new group of job titles that describes some of the common reasons folks take a leave

1:28.1

of their careers for a while. Now you can label your break one of 13 new options, including full-time

1:34.3

parenting, bereavement, caregiving, layoff, or gap year, among others. The entry also allows you to

1:40.5

add a brief description about how the break helped you or your career. The move is meant to

1:45.6

reduce the stigma around taking a career break. The pandemic caused millions of people to leave or

1:51.0

lose their jobs, and women were affected disproportionately by those losses. The Pew Research Center

1:57.4

notes that more than a half a million more women than men leave the labor force often to care for children or other family members.

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