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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
- 10 Tips For Time Management In A Multitasking World
- Personal Time Management is about controlling the use of your most valuable and undervalued resource. Consider these two questions: What would happen if you spent company money with as few safeguards as you spend company time? When was the last time you scheduled a review of your time allocation? The...
- White papers 2006-12-10
- Five Secrets to Making Any Job Creative
- Penelope Trunk argues that "it is nearly impossible to like a job if you are not solving problems that are challenging." But what do you do if you agree that mastering hard tasks motivates you, but you're early on in your career and stuck in a job that lacks creativity?...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
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- Odd Interview Advice: Don't Hire Women Who Smile Too Much
- The Find: Of all the quirky advice on hiring out there, successful business blogger Penelope Trunk may have some of the oddest: don't hire women who smile too much. The Source: Trunk's Brazen Careerist blog. The Source: Some people advocate panel interviews, others warn...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- How to Win at Office Politics
- Like it or not, every workplace is a political environment. But operating effectively within it doesn't have to mean sucking up, lying, or slinging dirt. In its purest form, office politics is simply about getting from here to there: securing a promotion, seeing an idea come to fruition, or gaining...
- Articles 2007-07-02
- Office Politics for Introverts
- Business, like many high schools, is set up to favor extroverts. But tooting your own horn, networking and pitching ideas can be painful for those not naturally inclined to be outgoing, so should the quieter folks among us just give up and become librarians or monks? Certainly not, argues controversial...
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- Can You Get a New Gig from a Distance?
- In a rough economy, one solution for frustrated job hunters is to look further afield. After all, some cities have better employment prospects than others. This is particularly appealing to many young people who are not yet tied down by a mortgage or family commitments. But how do you go...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- 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
- 5 Gen Y Tips for Better Leadership
- Think leadership skills are shaped by rules set in stone? Think again. Leadership approaches change from situation to situation, and especially from generation to generation. The traditional top-down leadership approach that used to rule the workplace is giving way to a more teamwork-oriented approach embraced by Generation...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- 6 Ways to Get Ahead in the Workplace
- Are you ready to enjoy a promotion, more respect from your employees and peers, and a more rewarding work life? It's easy: You just have to be tall -- or think and act like a tall person. So notes Penelope Trunk, writing about how tall people tend...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- How to Make Your Site or Blog Sticky Without Trying Hard
- Yahoo! Finance writer Penelope Trunk is no stranger to the type of scathing criticism blog readers have become accustomed to leaving in comments. Readers called her recent post, "Seven Ways to be a Better Delegator" obvious, far-from-groundbreaking, run-of-the-mill drivel. To be fair, many commented that it was better than her usual...
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- 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
- Three Ways to Give a Good Interview
- Looking for a new gig? Then you'll love Penelope Trunk's simple three-tip approach for putting your best foot forward in an interview. Tip 1: Be interesting. As Penelope says, interviewers don't ask you questions because they really want to know the answers. They want to know how...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Useful Commute: The New Rules for Success
- In this show, learn how to succeed in your career on your own terms. Sound brazen? Perhaps. But our guest, Penelope Trunk, says a take-charge attitude is the only way to get ahead in today's job market. Trunk is a career columnist for the Boston Globe. Her syndicated column runs...
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Are You Ready for Transparent Salaries?
- Want to know what your peers make? So do I. And for a variety of reasons, a push to eliminate so-called "secret salaries" is happening in the workplace. Someone recently asked me what I thought of transparent salaries. I hadn't thought much about the topic, so I...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
- Business 2.0 lists the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2006.I loved this YouTube video of a BBC interview with an "IT expert" on an Apple industry move. They accidentally brought on the wrong guy, and a taxi driver off the street ended up in the analyst hot seat trying...
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- 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
- 7 Ways to Handle a Lousy Boss
- So, your boss stinks. But you don't have the option of a new job right now. Feel stuck? Don't panic yet. There are a few ways you can help make the most of a bad situation, or even turn it around to your advantage. 1. Look at...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Personal Connections Are What Conferences Are All About
- I came into the PRSA International Conference expecting what most people come to a conference for: first and foremost, interesting sessions, and then secondly, to meet some nice people in my industry. I guess I hadn't been at a conference in awhile, because as usual, it was...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Should Jobhunters Reveal Salary Requirements?
- With so many of us facing the prospect of hunting down a new job, I thought it would make sense this week to focus on how to get the most out of your job search. First topic to tackle: the sticky question of when, if ever, to tell a prospective...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
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