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- Book Review: Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk
- Penelope Trunk's book Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success is an excellent guidebook for under 30 year-olds who are trying to make sense of what they can and should do with their careers.She presents quick hitter after quick hitter, every few pages introducing a new pithy "rule" such as...
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
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- Brazen Careerist: The Job Site for Gen Y?
- Brazen Careerist has quietly been a great place to connect with young Generation Y adults who care about changing the world, turning their passions into careers, and advancing themselves. It was co-founded by Penelope Trunk, a well-known author and columnist in the area of careers, along with Ryan Healy and...
- News items 2009-08-24
- How Do You Know When You're in a Depression?
- The Find: Hopefully the discussion is entirely academic, but when does a recession become a depression? A blog offers some possible indicators, while one prominent economist says that if you want to know what a depression looks like, look around â€" we're in one now. The Source:...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- You've Met the Millenials, Now Get Ready for Gen Z
- Brazen Careerist has a great post on what Generation Z (born from the mid-1990s onwards) will be like at work. It's so interesting it's worth a full read, but here's a summary: Gen Z won't be team players. The argument is that the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- How to Start a Business If You Know Nothing About Business
- I wrote a guest post over at Penelope Trunk's blog Brazen Careerist entitled, "How to start a business if you know nothing about business."Here were five key points I made. More tips, tactics, and insights in my book My Start-Up Life.1. Be committed to personal growth and self-improvement.Start reading booksabout...
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- A Crash Course in Feminine Careerism
- Mastered the art of multitasking? Check. Read the rules of office politics? Check. Figured out how to tame your boss? Check. Conquered your biological clock? Huh… ? Yes, ladies, in your quest to climb the corporate ladder, this is one skill you’d better acquire...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Get Lucky at the Office
- While St. Valentine's Day has come and gone, it is Spring and love is in the air. In the video above, Office Mate author, Stephanie Losee, explains why the office, traditionally considered off-limits for lovers, is actually the ideal place to find your potential soul mate. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Why Being a Control Freak Isn't So Bad
- The Find: The term control freak isn't usually considered a compliment, but one executive coach feels that the tendency to crave control actually offers significant advantages in business. The Source: Cheryl Cran writing on the Brazen Careerist blog. The Takeaway:...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- The Friday Round-Up
- The boss is coming! Look busy. Here is the City offers some tips on "how to look busy" even if you're not... But don't let yourself become too busy, lest it drive you to an early grave. Apparently, a senior car engineer at Toyota in Japan was clocking up an...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: Friend-Based Networking
- Asking a friend to recommend you to an organization for a job is like asking a friend to move a couch. Many of you have a wider network and more effective skills than you even realized. And now, the inevitable question: "What if I'm shy?" The good news is that...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: Three Networking Missteps
- In case you don't consider networking the highest priority in your career, here's something to think about: Most jobs aren't listed, so they aren't available to you unless someone tells you about them. Also, people who have mentors are more likely to get promoted than people who don't. And mentoring...
- White papers 2008-01-20
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: Five Interviewing Fundamentals
- The interesting thing about preparing to ace an interview is that most aspects of preparation carry over into the rest of your life. When you know who you are, and how to convey that to other people, when you are comfortable with a pause, and you are good at reading...
- White papers 2008-10-12
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: New Job Hunting Insights
- The truth is that positive people are hired more often. And in an interview, people can show that they are that type of person by intentionally presenting their information in the most positive way. But you work so hard on presenting yourself in your best light in the interview -...
- White papers 2008-06-15
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: The Toughest Interview Question
- Tell good stories, ask good questions, be a closer. But there's only one most important thing to remember: when it comes to discussing your potential salary, never give the number first. The right answer to the question, "What's your salary range?" is almost always some version of "I'm not telling...
- White papers 2008-04-06
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: Five Ways To Flub An Interview
- We spend so much of our careers doing good work, meeting interesting people, and learning new skills. But it really all starts with one moment: the interview. Once you get there, you need to be able to package everything together for a nice neat presentation that's memorable in exactly the...
- White papers 2007-12-02
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: Things I Shouldn't Have Said
- Very few questions are unpredictable. There are plenty of books to buy that give you the questions and answers to memorize. Make a list of off-limits topics so you don't go there. An interviewer can lead you to a topic, but your answer can lead somewhere else. Have a plan...
- White papers 2007-08-19
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: Turn Your Interview Into A Job
- Hiring managers don't hire the most qualified person. They hire the person they want to work with the most. Whether this is fair is not up for discussion, because the philosophical and de facto practices of corporate hiring aren't going to change any time soon. However, this paper discusses how...
- White papers 2007-08-19
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: New Answers To Old Questions
- A good way to think about the process of getting a job is that a resume gets you in the door, and an interview is where you close the deal. This paper shows nine ways to ace an interview and get the job. The interviewer is trying to see how...
- White papers 2007-04-08
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: Getting Recruiters' Attention
- Getting a call from a recruiter is like getting asked to the prom. It doesn't matter if the offer is subpar; it's always flattering to be asked. But there's a lot of advice about how to get a prom date and not very much on how to attract recruiters. The...
- White papers 2008-08-31
- BRAZEN CAREERIST: Online Job Hunting Hints
- No matter whether the job market is good or bad, the best jobs require talent before you walk in the door - you need to know how to use the Internet effectively in your job search. This paper gives six tips to help you improve your online results. Only three...
- White papers 2008-07-20
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