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Negotiation Tips from Personal Capital
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How a Serial Career Pivoter Navigated Life’s Twists and Turns
By Laura Deck Career paths stopped being linear decades ago. Working for the same company for thirty plus years hasn’t been the norm for a long time, and, thankfully, job-hopping is no longer considered a career-limiting move. The new reality of work is more often characterized by frequent pivots rather than a sustained sprint. According […]
Take The Reins! Resources to Start Your Freelance Career
This blog was contributed by Reanne Brian. Over the last decade, a massive trend has seen more and more people taking their work into their own hands as a freelancer. It’s becoming much easier to monetize your skills on a private basis. This sort of work can be extremely rewarding, and it’s a great way to […]
How Neat Is Your Desk? 5 Strategies To Help You Get Organized
Our desks are the mission control of our workdays, and, if you’re anything like me, when my desk is orderly, I feel a bit more grounded than on the days when it looks like a two year old climbed up and gleefully played fifty-two-pick-up on top of it with a stack of files. If one […]
Design Your Life and Career in 2017
The New Year provides opportunity for reflection and a fresh start. Many people feel stuck or helpless in the wrong job, the wrong relationship, or an unhappy life. The concept of design thinking will empower you with practical and creative strategies to reboot what’s not working so you have more control over your destiny. With […]
I’m Floating My Stress Away!
Admittedly, I am a high-energy, focused, and ambitious career woman who works very hard. While my career brings me great satisfaction and achieving a new goal gives me an adrenaline rush, I find it hard to sit still, let alone relax. I exercise hard to honor my body and it’s rare that I am not […]
Applying Eat, Pray, Love to Your Life
If you haven’t read Liz Gilbert’s book Eat Pray Love or seen the blockbuster movie with Julia Roberts, the nutshell version is that it took Liz (the protagonist) a full twelve months and three countries to strike a balance between pleasure seeking and inner spiritual peace. Liz ultimately found her authentic self and although traveling […]
Crack the Gender Code in the Interview
I read a fabulous article by Muriel Vega in Pink Magazine online about how men take credit more easily for their accomplishments and often see negotiation as a sport. In the end this often gets them higher pay rates. Connie Glaser, a communications expert and author of Gender Talk Works: 7 Steps for Cracking the […]
How To Use Your Office Holiday Party to Land a Promotion
Vicki Salemi wrote this great piece in the New York Post and included my insight about leveraging the office holiday party to your career advantage. Check it out! When a company’s branch manager throws a huge party to land a client in the Jennifer Aniston flick “Office Christmas Party,” out this week, many viewers may […]
