Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Career and Tech Hiring Tips – August 1, 2014

Welcome to CyberCoders' Weekly Roundup! Every week, we handpick the top five stories from around the web that offer great insight into hiring in the tech industry. 

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1. The Hardest People I Ever Had to Fire (LinkedIn Today)

Brian Liang, a small business blogger and content marketer, opens up with a few interesting stories of folks he loved, but had to fire.

This short post is a perfect reminder that, in order to be successful, it's not enough to be smart. You have to be a team player and reliable.

2. How to Use Conflict to Your Advantage at Work (Fast Company)

This piece shows how to deal with conflict at work in a positive way, and strategies for letting conflict lead to innovation and ideas among coworkers. 5 steps are stated and discussed:

• Choose Battles Wisely
• Create the Culture
• Work with the Players
• Weight the Options
• Choose Your Approach

3. LinkedIn Has Quietly Rolled Out A "Follow" Button To Millions Of Members (ReadWrite)

Millions of members on LinkedIn now have access to a "Follow" button that will allow them to follow other member's public feeds who they are not formally connected with.

This change will give users the ability to interact with not only the people you know, but those taste-makers and industry shakers you want to know.

4. To Sniff Out New Trends in Your Industry, Hit the Road (Fast Company)

Founder of BroadBandTV, Shahrzad Rafati, gets a leg up on new trends in mobile video by traveling the world, a valuable venture that globe-trotting Rafati says evokes creativity and keeps her motivated.

“It’s very inspiring for me to experience new behavior when it comes to consumption of video,” she says. Where in the world will your next creative adventure take you?