Resumes and Reputations
Personal and Professional Mistakes: There Is No Line
When you leave the office, you leave behind your desk and your job description and enter into your personal world. But you don’t leave behind your mistakes in either world, or your blunders. The time of complete separation of personal ... Read More »
Beating the Online Application Machine
We’ve all done it. You’ve read the job description, you’ve clicked on the “Apply Now” button, and you sigh a huge annoying sigh. Ugh. An online application system. Sure, you can upload your resume. But then you click through 957 ... Read More »
Does Your First Job Matter?
On Sundays at Career Girl Network, we like to talk about productivity. So far, we’ve talked about being more productive in your day-to-day life at work and at home. But we haven’t yet explored the idea of productivity on a ... Read More »
Getting Your Resume Noticed
Twenty years ago, getting your resume noticed meant it had to stick out in a pile – a pile of hard copy resumes that recruiters received in the mail with stamps. The resumes that moved to the top of the ... Read More »
Getting “Pitch Perfect” in Your Value Proposition
Jodi Glickman is the author of “Great on the Job: What to Say, How to Say It. The Secrets of Getting Ahead” and was also the September 2012 speaker at the Professional Women’s Club of Chicago luncheon. Her presentation at ... Read More »
Punch Above Your Weight
I have a strange confession to make. Sure, I’m a girly girl. I wear makeup daily and love dresses and jewelry. But I also love….boxing! In high school, I loved that my parents had HBO so I could watch Friday ... Read More »
Public Speaking for Career Girls
BONUS MATERIAL, CAREER GIRLS! We shared this article with Connect: Professional Women’s Group Powered by Citi over on LinkedIn and over 30 women commented with their best public speaking tips for women. Read the article below, then click here to ... Read More »
The Making of a Good Conversation
If you’re headed out this weekend, you may have the chance to make some new connections. Whether it’s a potential new client, a new network contact, a new friend, or your next date, how you conduct that first conversation is ... Read More »
Make Your Resume Shine
You all know how much we love infographics here at Career Girl Network (can the word infographic eventually make it into the dictionary, though, so it doesn’t always appear we’re spelling it wrong!?). This one, though, is especially useful for ... Read More »
Lighten Up with a Communications Cleanse
Remember that time you ate too many chips and guac, and subsequently felt you could combust? Or, when you drank yourself into oblivion, and woke up the next day with a headache that felt like ninjas attacking your brain? It ... Read More »
