Posts for "Career"


Where did MLR go?

From My Life ROI, Getting the Best Return On Life
March 11, 2010 at 10:31 am
My last post went over my one year anniversary. And then I disappeared. I did not intend for this to happen, but it did! I’ll give you a little update about what has happened ... (more)

Actually Asking For What You Want

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
March 11, 2010 at 9:00 am
I have this thing, where I sometimes assume people are in my brain and I will speak about “said thought in Grace’s brain” when talking with friends. When I do ... (more)

Why working for yourself is the best

From Fabulously Broke ....in the City
March 10, 2010 at 6:00 am
I thought it’d be a fun exercise to do a comparison between working for a company and working for yourself. Salary: The general rule of thumb is that you ... (more)

Two Valuable (Cheap) Credentials for Marketers

From Act As If...
March 8, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Marketers get clients by showing non-marketers what they know. An impressive body of work or a wall of advanced degrees usually does the trick, but what if you’re just starting ... (more)

Why working for a company is the best

From Fabulously Broke ....in the City
March 8, 2010 at 6:00 am
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Career Development for Gen Y: A Two-Way Street (Video)

From
March 8, 2010 at 1:11 am

I recently did a short 2-minute video for the upcoming Gen-Y Panel at SXSWi 2010 – Why Gen Y Wants to Work ‘With’ You, Not ‘For’ You (led by Ben Smithee, Elysa Rice,

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Education versus Unemployment Rate

From
March 5, 2010 at 2:45 pm

As if you needed more ammo in the “education matters” debate, take a look at your chances of becoming a disposable worker (a less than flattering way of saying unemployed)

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Always On

From Act As If...
March 3, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Recently, I had the opportunity to hear from Peter Roberts, CEO of the Chicago based Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, about his rise to the top in one of the nation’s leading real ... (more)

How to Become a Successful Financial Advisor

From
March 2, 2010 at 6:31 am

How do you define success?  Success can come from many aspects: life, career, family.  Often I get asked how I became a financial advisor and what has led to my success. When

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What if the unemployed worked for their unemployment checks?

From Budgets are Sexy
March 1, 2010 at 8:28 am
I have no idea how crazy this is going to sound (esp. since I'm no economist), but I found this question posed by the Huffington Post extremely fascinating. What if the unemployed ... (more)

When Opportunity Knocks, Open the Damn Door!

From Suburban Dollar
February 25, 2010 at 10:00 am
Seriously, if opportunity comes knocking open the door and quit trying to figure out why. That is what everyone tells you to do anyway. I am personally of the belief that opportunity ... (more)

Creativity, Self-Esteem and Broken Eggs

From Psychotic Resumes
February 23, 2010 at 8:34 pm
These eggs gave up their lives for their love of creativity How can I create today? This is a question people should ask themselves each day. Yet, most of us look at the day or ... (more)

I’m alive, I promise.

From Justice for all
February 20, 2010 at 1:40 am
I haven’t posted in quite a long time, so this isn’t going to be your “typical” Justice for All blog post. Instead, I’m going to ramble on about my ... (more)

What is Your Leisure Time Worth to You?

From Always the Planner
February 19, 2010 at 3:36 pm
During my lunch hour I was browsing through some online articles and came across Laura Rowley's yahoo column. This week she wrote about a survey that asked the participants what ... (more)

#101: my interests

From
February 18, 2010 at 11:30 pm

The first class in schools are typically branded 101 so I figured I’d use post 101 to talk a little bit more about my interests than I did in post #1.

A quick primer on me: I’m

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Will Resumes Be Extinct By 2020?

From
February 16, 2010 at 9:45 am

Brand-Yourself.com has a phenomenal set of regular visitors (if you are reading this, then I am talking about you!).  Some of you comment occasionally, many of you read and share

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Are Bonuses Really Effective Motivators?

From My Life ROI, Getting the Best Return On Life
February 16, 2010 at 7:30 am
I am going to give you tasks that require your attention, memory, concentration and creativity. For example, I am going to give you a puzzle to assemble while throwing tennis balls ... (more)

What did you want to be when you were little?

From
February 16, 2010 at 6:00 am

Alissa from The Corporate Chick asked me:
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Completely opposite of what you do now?
Hell to the yes.
When I was little,

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Gifts vs. Favors: Why One is POWER & Other is POISON to Your Career

From CAREEREALISM: Because EVERY Job is Temporary
February 14, 2010 at 12:14 pm
By CAREEREALISM.com Founder, J.T. O’Donnell Photo by Dean Ayres via Flickr aaa I read a post by Seth Godin recently that discussed the power of a gift. Something struck ... (more)

5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Organize Information

From Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
February 14, 2010 at 8:30 am
Does this sound familiar? You read an AWESOME article online and you promised you’d save it somewhere… but you didn’t. So you go to find it… but you can’t… and eventually ... (more)

Take Your Competitive Resume and Tweak the He#$ Out Of It!

From My Life ROI, Getting the Best Return On Life
February 8, 2010 at 7:30 am
I’ve already given advice on how to make a resume competitive by giving some real life examples of how I changed my friend’s resume. There are so many factors that go into ... (more)

Silence and a Celebration of Failure

From wordpost
February 4, 2010 at 7:07 am
Last week Carlos Miceli again proved profundity can be carried in 140 characters when he wrote: Reflection is the most painful and effective way to become wise. I think it’s ... (more)

Filtering My Dreams as a Woman In 2010

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
February 3, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Today, women are getting married and having babies later. Today, women are also scared to talk about wanting conventionality. I helped to end a relationship by choosing career, ... (more)

A Defense of Grad School

From wordpost
February 2, 2010 at 9:00 am
Last month, a few other young professionals, namely Nicole Crimaldi, Matt Cheuvront, and (to some extent) Shane Mac suggested that the best education is self-education. As one ... (more)

Job Leads Using Twitter? Yes!

From
February 2, 2010 at 1:00 am

Let’s face it…
Twitter is here to stay for some time. It’s a hot technology that grows with new users by the day. And now, it’s becoming a unique place

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