Reach Your Long Term Goals by Starting NOW
Close your eyes and imagine your life in 5 years. Can you picture the life ahead of you? If you are struggling to put an image of your future together in your head, maybe...
Category: Career Confessions
Office Attire and Fashion: A Career Girl’s Wardrobe
Every career girl will understand this dilemma; dressing for the office is a complicated and puzzling affair for the style conscious. Seemingly simple yet so easy to get wrong, mixing fashion and formal workwear...
The Great Job Search: Three Key Tips to Get an Advantage
December 2012. A technical writing major graduated from the University of Idaho. As she walked to receive her diploma, she felt two overlapping emotions: relief and panic. Relief that tests and grades were a...
6 Things I’ve Learned About Working in Global Health
Our new columnist, Ankita, talks about her budding career in Global Health. Read her thoughts on its advantages, challenges, and the Ebola outbreak. I graduated from college in May with a degree in Economics and a half-baked...
Art Education Investing Pays Dividends for Cities and CEOs
Finding Funds for Art Education This past Thursday, I got the opportunity to sit down with Blick Art Materials CEO Robert Buchsbaum at Philadelphia City Hall for the A+ Art City Hall’s Annual Student Exhibit. ...
Getting Suggestions: Horizontal Management Styles for the Benefit of Employee Engagement
The perceived distance between management and their staff, whether legitimate or not, can have a huge effect on employee engagement. In many companies, the manager occupies the position of inviolable leader: making major decisions...
Seven Signs You Should Leave Your Job
Times have changed in the job market and the ‘employee for life’ is a rare breed. Most workers move on and look for new challenges across the country and globe; according to this Daily...
4 Ways People Pleasers Can Help Themselves
Who are people-pleasers? People-pleasers are eager to please others and unfortunately, in the process, forget to take their own needs into consideration. Confrontation is scary for those who fear conflict, however if they do not...
Career Confessions: Love, Marriage and Your Career
Last month my husband and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. Like many other couples, we’ve found it challenging at times to create balance in our marriage while we’re focused on building our careers. Though...
Apply Out Of Your League
I’m going to let you in on a little job searching secret: the “years of experience” section is kind of a white lie. The job I got after graduating from college “required” 3-5 years...