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One of the biggest mistakes we can make in our career is to NOT showcase our work. I don’t know about you but coming from a family that lived in poverty we were told to be grateful for what we got, and if we wanted more to work harder. In addition, as a female I …
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As a child did you always take the fall season for granted, never thinking twice about it, I did. Then, I went to college and had a roommate from a city in California. As we walked across campus I commented to my new roommate on all the leaves on the ground. I could not believe …
The most professional way to ask for a raise is with a growth mindset. Use the request as an opportunity to grow, specifically leveraging what you have given the company and what more you have to offer the company. To apply the growth mindset to salary discussions, it should be at minimum a bi-annual or …
Keeping ourselves and others entertained is a full time job nowadays. Whether you are looking for something to change up the everyday mundaneness of your life or you are looking to entertain your child or friends, we often turn to money for an answer. Of course I do not mean that we just look at …
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No matter the time of year there seems to always be an extracurricular activity that children or teens are part of. Keeping track of all the items that go with each extracurricular activity can be absolute chaos at times. I can’t count how many evenings I’ve spent digging through my child’s stuff looking for a …
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Career mentors and sponsors should be thought of as a need from very early on in your career, especially for 1st generation college graduates with little guidance from family and friends on the specifics of navigating a professional terrain. This post will cover what a mentor and sponsor are, and how they are different including …
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It’s that time of year again. Kids and teens are being given another school break. In typical years most families would use this week to travel to fun destinations or day trips or even home projects. However, given the world’s current practice of social distancing many families are out of home project ideas or just …
How to Navigate the Professional Terrain (ladder) Navigating the professional terrain at work can be a maze for those just entering the workforce, or those who change career fields, or even for those who just change positions within their field of expertise. Most of us enter the workforce not knowing that we are responsible for …
There is an abundance of career advice that talks about how taking career risks pay big, and how playing it safe can hurt your long-term career growth. However, how do we know when and what career risks to take? How do we recover if the risk doesn’t turn out as we had hoped? How do …
Have you been on a video call recently and thought, wow, this camera highlights my blemishes or wow this camera makes my skin tone look sickly pale? You are not the only one. Now, of course lighting has a lot to do with how we look on video. However, I found it is a lot …
