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title: This Week In Data - Hacking Your Professional Development
description: In the fourteenth episode of This Week In Data, Adam and Devin discuss hacking your professional development.
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# [This Week In Data - Hacking Your Professional Development](https://pragmaticworks.com/blog/this-week-in-data-hacking-your-professional-development)

 Written by [Pragmatic Works](https://pragmaticworks.com/blog/author/pragmatic-works) | Nov 30, 2016

Welcome back to another episode of This Week In Data! If you missed any of our previous episodes, [you can watch them here.](https://pragmaticworks.com/blog/topic/this-week-in-data) In this week's episode, we discuss hacking your own professional development.

Having a plan for your professional development is essential when tackling your career goals. You need to have a firm plan in place to accomplish these goals and to set yourself up for success. In our latest episode, Adam and Devin give you a step-by-step outline to hacking your professional development success! This includes setting skill set goals,  timelines and milestones, while also thinking about yourself like a start-up business. 

They also talk about some interesting news topics such as [Black Friday sales being up 9%](http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/data-thanksgiving-black-friday-sales-percent-43836873), [Spotify using their data in fun, new ways for their global outdoor ad campaign](http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/spotify-crunches-user-data-fun-ways-new-global-outdoor-ad-campaign-174826) and [Russia blocking LinkedIn over personal data storage location.](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/11/501716941/russia-moves-to-block-linkedin-over-personal-data-storage-location) Learn more about these topics by watching this episode:

 

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