{"id":6054,"date":"2016-08-29T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:14:39","slug":"workplace-lessons-from-the-2016-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/workplace-lessons-from-the-2016-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Gold: Workplace Lessons from the 2016 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<olympics>\nThere&#8217;s a lot to be learned from The Olympics, according to Lindsey Pollack, a leading voice on millennials in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Pollack is a bestselling author of <em>Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders <\/em>and <em>Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World. <\/em>She has been called a \u201ctranslator\u201d as she advises both young professionals and organizations that want to recruit them. \u00a0She\u00a0writes a regular blog that recently focused on lessons we can learn from the 2016 Olympics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindseypollak.com\/pure-gold-workplace-lessons-from-the-2016-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out what she has to say.<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>SPC career professionals: Your career\u00a0coach<\/h5>\n<p>Do you need help creating those career milestones, training your career skills and setting goals and action steps? Contact a career professional on your campus.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t know your campus Career Services staff? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/careers_contactus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out this link<\/a>.\u00a0These on-campus and online professionals are here to provide support for your career vision.\u00a0 Don\u2019t have a vision for your future world of work?\u00a0 Well, we can help with that too.<\/p>\n<h5>Career Services + You = Career Gold<\/h5>\n<p>Be the career Olympian who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>finds their passion<\/li>\n<li>trains for competition<\/li>\n<li>rises to the winners circle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Career Services wants to help you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>discover your skills, interest and values<\/li>\n<li>research strong matches and connect to professionals<\/li>\n<li>gain the employment skills necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You too can be a pure gold winner in life. Already are a gold winner?\u00a0 Come share your success with us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter<\/strong> at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23careerspc&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#careerspc<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23spcintern&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#spcintern<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot to be learned from The Olympics, according to Lindsey Pollack, a leading voice on millennials in the workplace. Pollack is a bestselling author of Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders and Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World. She has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/workplace-lessons-from-the-2016-olympics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pure Gold: Workplace Lessons from the 2016 Olympics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":6093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[4,10],"class_list":["post-6054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-exploration","category-career-news","tag-career-services","tag-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10712,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions\/10712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}