All Entries in the "Career" Category
Get What You Want While Seducing The Boys Club On Your Way To The Top
I came across two books this week: Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide and Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top. They reflect my thoughts around women and how we can get what we want while negotiating with members of the “boys club”.
Negotiating things like salary, time off, [...]
Ultimate Graduation Resource List @ CampusGrotto
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May and June must be career development and resource month. I’ve been doing a lot of my own research around my next steps, taking a class on Career Development Counseling, not to mention so many graduate from high school and college this month. I came across this article today featuring an [...]
I’ll Take A Great Job With A Man Sized Paycheck Thank You!
The folks over at Yahoo Education published an awesome article, Great Jobs that Profit Women: Five Flexible Careers with Man-Sized Paychecks. Can you tell I’m excited? Maybe it’s because I’ve considered each one listed and pursuing two of them currently. So what makes them so great? They are positions which [...]
Too Educated For Entry Level? Why Having A Master’s Degree May Be To Your Detriment
The Washington Post published the article Too Educated For Entry Level, and I was actually excited to see that they’d taken on this issue, especially here in the DC Metro area. With more women going to college and then going on to obtain master’s degrees, this is a relevant article for so many of [...]
8 Recession Proof Job Industries for New Graduates
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Chances are, if you’re graduating in 2008 from college or graduate school, you’re concerned about job prospects given the current state of the economy. I’d be scared too, with Citibank cutting 4900 jobs, the Bear Stearns bailout, and airlines closing their doors. I started to think, if I had the [...]
Beat The Rat Race: Work from Home as a Virtual Call Center Agent
This post is first in a series discussing the many ways in which you can work from home while spending more time with children and family while pursuing other interests. Please submit your stories if you are currently working from home or have a telecommuting arrangement with your place of employment.
This article from [...]
Are We Giving Up Too Much: After A Baby Full Time Or Part?
This is an old post but I thought I’d bring it back with some new information gleaned from the Washington Post’s article, After A Baby, Full Time Or Part? This is something I struggle with being a newly wed with the expectation of children on the horizon. We are both just getting started in [...]
Bulletpoof Your Finances with Lessons from the Recession
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Have you been depressed around the impending recession or how we’re stuck in stagflation? What if there was a way to bulletproof you finances with lessons from the recession? Well, if you ever wanted to get tips on how to solidify your finances during this depressing time, this post is for you.
There [...]
Vent: My Disillusionment and Resentment with Graduate Education
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I’ve spent the last few days or so thinking about my current career path, especially after this post where I noted my lack of a commitment to my career at this point in time. This brought about a slew of conflicting thoughts and feelings and I spent some time processing [...]
