Job seekers used to brag on their resumes about their ability to multitask. They had better not do that anymore. The latest scientific work suggests that multitasking is a myth. When you think you are multitasking, what you are actually doing is simply attempting to work while being distracted with worse results. You never really do multiple things at the same time. Instead, you work on one thing and then another and back to the first one and, studies show, the quality of your work on each goes down.
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Tip #5: Do Not Multitask; When it Comes to…
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Job seekers used to brag on their resumes about their ability to multitask. They had better not do that anymore. The latest scientific work suggests that multitasking is a myth. When you think you are multitasking, what you are actually doing is simply attempting to work while being distracted with worse results. You never really do multiple things at the same time. Instead, you work on one thing and then another and back to the first one and, studies show, the quality of your work on each goes down.