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🤓 Knowledge is Currency, AI Video Guides, Target Cuts 1800 Roles - Oct 28, 2025

🤓 Knowledge is Currency, AI Video Guides, Target Cuts 1800 Roles - Oct 28, 2025

How to level up your career currency, make your résumé impossible to ignore, Target's first major layoff... and that's just the start.

October 28, 2025

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Hey, Daily Grinders! 👋 Today’s a reminder that knowledge is the real currency. Whether you’re upskilling or just microlearning — every bit of know-how adds to your career wallet.

On today’s agenda:

🤓 Knowledge is currency

▶️ Automated video training

🛍️ Target trims corporate roles

🚀 Boost your brain power

WEEKLY GOODY
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

🤓 Upgrade Your Worth: Why Knowledge is the Currency that Pays the Best Interest

They say money makes the world go round—but in today’s job market, knowledge is the real currency. With AI reshaping roles faster than you can say “reskill,” the smartest investment you can make isn’t in stocks—it’s in yourself.

LinkedIn’s 2025 Workplace Learning Report shows 84％ of employees agree “learning adds purpose to my work.” Continuous learning is your career’s secret compound interest. Ask yourself: What skill or capability will elevate me this year? How will I schedule time to grow it?

Every new skill adds value, boosts adaptability, and keeps your résumé recession-proof. Whether it’s mastering a new tool, reading a quick industry article, or joining a webinar—each small step compounds into career gold.

Here’s how to grow your “Knowledge Bank”:
✨ Deposit daily: Spend 10–15 minutes learning something new.
🚀 Diversify skills: Blend technical know-how with soft skills.
🧠 Invest in curiosity: Ask questions, seek mentors, explore beyond your role.
📈 Reinvest returns: Apply what you learn, then share it—it doubles the impact.

The payoff? A future-proof career, a sharper edge, and the confidence to pivot when the market shifts.

Don’t just earn a living—bank on your knowledge.

TODAY’S TASK
📚 Learn in Mini Bursts – Turn idle moments into learning time. Watch a 2-min explainer or read a quick article daily to build your knowledge bank, one micro-lesson at a time.

TOGETHER WITH GUIDDE

Simplify Training with AI-Generated Video Guides

Are you tired of repeating the same instructions to your team? Guidde revolutionizes how you document and share processes with AI-powered how-to videos.

Here’s how:

1️⃣ Instant Creation: Turn complex tasks into stunning step-by-step video guides in seconds.
2️⃣ Fully Automated: Capture workflows with a browser extension that generates visuals, voiceovers, and call-to-actions.
3️⃣ Seamless Sharing: Share or embed guides anywhere effortlessly.

The best part? The browser extension is 100% free.

Check out Guidde

THE WORK PULSE

🛍️ Target Trims 1,800 Corporate Roles - CNBC

What’s unfolding: Target is cutting about 1,800 corporate jobs amid falling sales and a major cost-reduction plan.
Why it matters: Even big brands are tightening up. Stay agile—keep learning, expanding your skills, and showing how you add value beyond your job title.

🧾 SNAP Benefits on the Brink? - USAToday

What’s unfolding: The USDA has announced it will not use the roughly $5 billion contingency fund to cover the November SNAP benefits.
Why it matters: If your role depends on consumer-facing industries, retail, or social-services contracts, it’s time to monitor local benefit disruptions and position yourself as adaptable to shifts in demand.

📉 Jobless Claims Rise Again - Reuters

What’s unfolding: Weekly jobless claims climbed to 232,000, signaling a further cooling down of the labor market.
Why it matters: The job hunt may be slowing—future-proof your career now through upskilling and strong professional networks.

JOB BOARD

WORKPLACE

🚀 Boost Your Brain: 20 Smart Moves to Get Genius-Level Smarts

Want to amplify your career “currency”? Dive into this complete guide with 20 actionable strategies—from establishing a morning routine to mastering memory techniques and exploring new ideas—that teach you how to train your brain like a genius. Because whether you’re engineering the next big thing or just navigating your next job move, leveling up your intellect gives you a competitive edge.

Power up your mental mojo.

👉 How to Boost Your Brain Power Like a Genius »

WEEKLY GOODY

💥 Land That Job: The Powerhouse Résumé Template

Ready to turn heads (and land interviews)? This week’s freebie will be your secret weapon — the Powerhouse Résumé Template. Sleek, modern, and built to highlight your achievements, it helps you tell your professional story with confidence and clarity. Whether you’re chasing a dream role or eyeing that next big promotion, this template makes your application impossible to ignore.

Let your résumé do the talking.

Download link available to email subscribers

BREAKROOM

SMART READS

🤔 Things to Remember When You Feel Stupid at Work

🎧 The Best Career Development Podcasts

💡 10 Tips to be More Innovative at Work

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