Category Archive for: ‘Career’
Salary Negotiation Tip From The Experts
A: Excuse me sir, may I talk to you? B: Sure, come on in. What can I do for you? A: Well sir, as you know, I have been an employee of this prestigious firm for over ten [...]
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Sisterhood Of Success: Choosing Your Personal Board Of Advisors
Do you have a mentor? If so then you understand the importance of having one due to the guidance and support they’ve given you over the years. I truly believe that women are more successful when they have mentors guiding them both personally and professionally. [...]
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Your Best Guide To Jumping Back Into A Job You Want
Some of you have been out of work for more than a year or you may have just been laid off. Others may be contemplating a jump from their present place of work but fear going from the pot into the fire kind of situation. [...]
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Flower Diagram Reloaded For Relationships
Most of you know that I am serial planner. To that end I utilize vision boards and the flower diagram from What Color Is Your Parachute to keep myself on track since I don’t like the feeling of a year going by and not being [...]
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Working Women And The Recession: What’s Next?
Many women have had to face the reality of either returning to work or working longer hours in order to make ends meet. This may be due to a spouse or partner losing their job, or their own job loss. But where does this leave [...]
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Unemployment + Bad Credit UPDATE: States May Ban Credit Checks On Job Applicants
Remember this story? Most of you were fired up, and rightfully so. It’s a$$inine to bar someone to get a job because they have bad credit. This is why we have criminal background checks. Perhaps a remedy would be to give the person a mandatory [...]
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5 Secrets of The Highest Paid Women
Marie Claire has a very interesting article that details the 5 Secrets of The Highest Paid Women and I agree with their rationale. 1. Be Yourself. In order to achieve anything in life, you need to be authentic and true to who you are. This [...]
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Find Your Passion: Love Your Work: Tips Galore!
So I know you’re saying, find my passion? Ginger, I can hardly find a job I like much less talk about my passion! Those of you that do have jobs, I know these days may find it hard to tolerate let alone fathom adding the [...]
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Discussion: “If you smoke or are overweight, then you cost me money and I cannot hire you.”-Fair Or Not?
With Obama’s recent visit to the Cleveland clinic, who will cease hiring smokers as of September 1, the Today Show is speculating that this may become a corporate health care trend. Here’s the message from Dr Delos Cosgrove, CEO and President at the Cleveland Clinic: [...]
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Read This: Unemployment + Bad Credit = No Job
Yes you read right! If you are unemployed and have bad credit then you have another hurdle to get past: employers unwilling to higher you because of bad credit. It’s important to note that this is the kind of bad credit where the potential employee [...]
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Having It All: Giving Up Peak Earning Potential To Have A Baby
If you’ve been reading this blog for some time then you know that I am truly on a quest to “have it all”. I want the man, the house, kids, degree and picket fence all by 30, and I got started at 26. But [...]
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The High Life On Less: What Can You Afford To Live Without?
What can you afford to live without? We were faced with this question while visiting some friends in Manhattan this weekend. This was our first time visiting their apartment and we were pleasantly surprised to say the least. So much so it made us go [...]
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SAHMs Read This: ‘Economoms’ Back to the Job Market
Hard times and shrinking paychecks are forcing some stay at home moms to return to the job market. Meet the Economommies. They are women who chose to leave the workforce in order to focus more on child rearing but with recent market downturns, scrambling to [...]
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Recharge Your Resume And Get Back In The Game: 7 Tips
If you’ve been out of work for some time or recently fired/laid off then this post is for you. As the time goes by and job fairs are posted it seems as though they can’t get here fast enough. You focus so much energy on [...]
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How To Make A Layoff Payoff: 6 Surefire Tips
Readers Digest has a really fabulous article about getting on your feet after a layoff. Sometimes we see it coming and there are others for whom it comes out of the blue sky with no warning. But in this economy, everyone should have a clear [...]
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