Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Career and Tech Hiring Tips -- November 14, 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. Why Some People Get Promoted and Others Don’t  [99u]

A strong work ethic is good, but often times, it’s not enough.

You need business skills that will help you achieve progression and career growth.

“Research confirms that there’s a real disconnect between your performance and your job outcome," according to the article. The unfortunate truth is that perception is reality in the workplace.

But you can control how you're perceived. Regularly pointing to your achievements is essential to your career.

2. Lyft Sets Its Sights on Commuters with Employee Perks [Fast Company]

How would you like to take a Lyft to work? About 30 companies are offering Lyft as a perk for their employees. Uber launched a similar program back in July, but Lyft is gaining some great traction, including partnership with Yelp, Stripe and Thumbtack.

Carpooling is another fringe benefit of this perk, allowing its employer partners to pay for carpooling credit for their employees.

3. Why Booming Mobile Commerce is Good for Developers [ReadWrite]

Apps are increasingly becoming shopping tools. ReadWrite references a recent report by Adobe "2014 Holiday Shopping Prediction" that highlights the increase of shopping on mobile devices.

"31% of all online purchases will happen on mobile devices," according to the report.

So, what does this big boom in e-commerce mean for developers? "

"Given that prospective growth, coupled with the growth already seen in the ADI data, mobile developers really need to be thinking about apps that not only encourage consumers to play games or watch video, but also to buy things," ReadWrite's Matt Asay reports. In other words, the growth of mobile shopping opens up revenue-making avenues for developers.

4. America's Youngest Billionaires [Forbes]

Need some inspiration this weekend? Forbes' Youngest Billionaires list, which includes the top 11 billionaires who are under 40 years old.

Here are 3 from the list:

1. Dustin Moskovitz, 30, is worth $8.1 billion. He was Mark Zuckerberg's roommate at Harvard and Facebook's third employee, but went on to start the software firm Asana.

2. Elizabeth Holmes, 30, is worth $4.5 billion. She's a self-made billionaire after dropping out of Stanford University to launch a bloog testing company called Theranos in 2003.

3. Sean Parker, 34, is worth $3 billion. He cofounded Napster and was the first president at Facebook.

5. Amazon is Hiring Someone to Oversee its Courier Drones [Engadget]

Amazon is looking for someone with years of aviation experience to oversee its drone flight tests to make sure their robots deliver goods safe and sound.

"Amazon still has plenty of regulatory and technological hurdles to overcome before a position like this is more than a novelty, but its very existence is proof that the company is serious about unmanned aerial shipping," according to Engadget.