Changing Careers
Create Your Own Career Path
Too often in our careers we pursue only the paths we can clearly see. It’s easy to sit in your chair in middle management and think that the line to the C-suite goes from Manager to Senior Manager to Director ... Read More »
How to Master a Job You Don’t Know How to Do
One of my favorite quotes comes from Chad Bauman, the Director of Communications with Washington D.C.’s Arena Stage. Chad said, “Never take a job that doesn’t scare the crap out of you.” Chad believes that taking a job you already ... Read More »
Get the Job You’re Totally Not Qualified For
Here’s how the regular internet job search goes. You visit a job search site, you type in some combination of words, and you pray that what pops up looks good, right? But inevitably, in that stack of hundreds of job ... Read More »
Decoding the Language of Corporate Culture
When you begin your job search, you’ll ask yourself and the companies you’re interviewing in numerous questions. You’ll wonder about salary requirements, you’ll painstakingly review job descriptions, you might have the opportunity to peruse org charts and job descriptions of ... Read More »
Celebrity Careers Enhanced by the “Mommy Track” – What About Yours?
Will becoming a mother hurt your career? Entire books, hell entire sections of bookstores, deal with this very topic. Will pregnancy and maternity leave and soccer games be detrimental to your career? Will you always look back at those women ... Read More »
How to Talk to Your Partner About Decisions in Your Career
Countless times in our careers, we will reach a crossroads – a point where we must choose which path to take. Perhaps there is an opportunity to move to a new company, or a new job within your current company, ... Read More »
Make Your Job More Meaningful
You will spend the majority of your life at work, so damnit, its should be meaningful to you. Don’t feel ashamed of having a mission or a vision for your life and pursuing it with relentless ambition. And when you ... Read More »
Building Your Skills Through Blogging
I have women ask me regularly how they can start a blog, whether or not they should blog, and what blogging might give them. For me, my Minneapolis Career Girl and Chicago Career Girl blogs eventually led to the launch ... Read More »
Swapping Your Blackberry for a Backpack: World Travel Mid-Career
A few weeks ago, we brought you “Get Ahead By Going Abroad” after realizing many adults list their biggest regret as doing too little traveling abroad. At that time, we reminded you that it is possible to travel abroad as ... Read More »
Complacency from Women in Male-Dominated Industries
I spent a lot of time networking with women. Luncheons, happy hours, 1:1 networking meetings. In my networking, I meet women from all industries and walks of life, but what’s interesting to me is this. I rarely meet women from ... Read More »
