We all know that working towards your first degree can be a challenge in and of itself. Good grades aren’t enough to land you that first job after graduation. Unfortunately, the same often goes for an impressive list of extracurriculars. …
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A typical professional career is a roller-coaster ride full of highs and lows. The highs include every positive experience: the big promotions, celebrated raises, and hard-fought achievements. The lows include the missed deadlines, failed deals, demotions, terminations, and failures we’ve …
The classroom full of eager MBA students was sharply divided. We’d all just read the same case packet, but we’d made drastically different decisions when faced with the simple yes-or-no question: “Would you race?”
We’d been asked to imagine we …
Making mistakes is part of human nature. It happens to everyone, all the time, and it will happen again. The truth is that some people are better equipped to handle their mistakes than others, and some can push past them …
You’re interviewing for a leadership role, and you know that the question “what’s your management style?” is coming.
Beyond this one very specific window of opportunity, though, you’re wondering how else to position yourself as the style of leader you …
I once landed on a former work wife’s doorstep in Nashville for a weeklong stay only to realize when I got there that we’d met in person exactly once.
It was awkward for about a minute, but a single hug …
So you landed a summer internship – congratulations! Now that you’ve made the obligatory Facebook/LinkedIn post and changed that status to employed, you may be thinking about what you can do to make a lasting impression at one of your first …
Running Fairygodboss, I hear a lot of opinions about what women should do in order to be successful.
Most of it is amazingly helpful and thoughtful. But sometimes, I hear things that are well-intentioned but worrisome (and potentially misleading) in …
Social media is a hot spot to post and find job listings, but it’s not always clear what is legitimate. Unfortunately, scammers have mastered targeting and taking advantage of desperate job seekers and people fall victim to jobs that are …
When it comes to employer branding, flexibility is in fashion. But when a company touts itself as having a flexible remote work culture in its job descriptions, how can you be sure that they mean it as more than a …
