Zak Kann

I hate writer’s block. Does this surprise you? Of course not. Nobody likes to feel like their creative juices are gone. They hate it almost as much as they hate the phrase ‘creative juices’. Yet it happens to all of us. I wrote three stories yesterday, but today I woke up with no ideas. Nada. […]

It all started when I was a child, as most peoples’ stories do. In the Beginning (or Close Enough) At 5, I wanted to be a Pastor. By the time I turned 8, that dream was long gone, but it took me years to admit it out loud. I was going to be a writer until

Every time I’m out searching for a job, I’m bombarded by job titles that I’ve never heard of before. Some of them are great matches for my skills and my goals even though the titles are completely different from what I was searching for. This leaves me wondering how many job opportunities I’m missing just

First off, you’re not alone. 85% of people hate their jobs according to a 2017 Gallup poll. I’m not saying they have suggestions for improvement. I’m saying out of every 100 people, 85 of them say they hate their jobs. Shocking, right? If it was 10–20%, maybe you could say it was them. But when we

It’s not always obvious. You can wait for an epiphany or that moment when a ray of light shines in from the window and miraculously highlights that ad for a newer, better gig that just happens to have popped up at the corner of your browser. But while waiting for that moment, you may have

We all know how to find corporate jobs, or at least we think we do. There are plenty of well-known sites devoted to this effort. Monster, Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor, and all those household names make it easy to find whether Discover or Amazon is hiring. Even Google has gotten in on this game by

There is no modern career that gets more buzz than data science. And why shouldn’t it? The data revolution is well underway. Companies like Amazon and Facebook have become corporate giants by riding and guiding this revolution. Every company wants to hire a data scientist to avoid missing the next big thing. This has created

Do you remember meeting that one person you really wanted to go out with? Maybe you met at a party or on a dating app. Of course, you wanted to maximize the chance that they would say ‘yes’. So obviously you did what any person would do. You dug through their social media accounts. You