Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 4, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog The science of love at first sight Posted to: Interviewing | Networking October 4th, 2010 Del.icio.us Is this your first time here? Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook This is what the farm looks like when you drive up to it.

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JULY 25, 2010

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APRIL 26, 2010

Seth is my mentor. I developed a habit of attending all your webinars since the first one that I attended, you sure are such a great mentor Penelope! I am very excited. Posted by Nancy Carroll on April 26, 2010 at 9:17 am | permalink | Reply I've signed up for it.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 11, 2010

I am the Mayor of the HIdden Job Market on FourSquare for heaven's sake, which makes me a)almost cool and b) possibly knowledgable ( Networking is my life). You are doing a webinar on the Hidden Job Market? I'd love to help you. Please call me anytime today if you have questions or would just like to catch up.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 28, 2009

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Don't know what you'd like to call us, but there is nothing in the world (seriously I live for this) I enjoy more than watching a "Maximizer" crash and burn while attempting to "Maximanize the the Xtreme Paradigm of Multi-Networked Pro-activity" or whatever you types are calling it these days.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 12, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 4 Types of questions get us in trouble Posted to: Interviewing | Knowing yourself | Networking October 12th, 2009 Del.icio.us I spend days dreaming up the perfect question for my mentor who I haven’t spoken to in a month.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 13, 2010

The old sociology books used to call this drive to mentor and to coach "generativity" Penelope, your M.O. is mentoring/coaching, as well!!! Here is a great new business book: Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected by Devora Zack.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 4 Twitter tips no one will give you Posted to: Diversity | Fulfillment | Networking September 28th, 2010 Del.icio.us I get what you're saying- you should be supportive of your network in order to truly make a connection.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 22, 2010

Is the most important thing to getting a good network? I've moved three times for a guy, giving up a great network and great job each time. (This, of course, does not have to be true.) And, good luck with the move back home. Question 2: How do I become an evangelist? Do I need to first become an expert? Should I relocate?

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 30, 2010

As I constantly am looking for ways to bring you successful ways to become better at career networking. So for a lot of people career networking is really hard. Similar to my rant about the need to personalize those generic Linkedin invitations, so it is true for in-person career networking. Very uncomfortable.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2010

For instance, women with a bachelor's degree had median earnings of $39,571 between 2006 and 2008, compared with $59,079 for men at the same education level, according to the Census. "At "At every education level, from high-school dropouts to Ph.D.s, women continue to earn less than their male peers."

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

I want to be more diligent about finding a mentor to help me grow, outside of my supervisor. We meet many in our lives that can become our coaches or mentors, for longer or shorter periods of time. Finding a good mentor/coach/teacher is tough, but starting a blog exposes you to a huge measure of immediate coaching.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Twitter can save your life Posted to: Networking February 10th, 2010 Del.icio.us Social media is about networking, and networking is about helping people. My problem is that I don't get social networking online.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Notes from a grouchy networker Comments (58) Leave a Comment Hi Penelope, Interesting points about taking risks! Goes to show that whichever way we go sometimes, we wonder about the road not taken. Also, it takes a mature adult like you to admit she made a mistake, even on something as mundane as setting up wallpaper.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 18, 2010

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It's easier to jump in (albeit perhaps at a lower level) after taking time off if you have more experience and a stronger network in your hip pocket.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 1, 2010

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Find a business analogy that takes the feeling of failure out of it if that's a problem (here's one: a therapist is like a mentor for your marriage). You motivated me to get moving on social networking, jump in and learn to swim. Think of it as a kind of prophylactic.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

And anyway, the brand is better for a social network. I thought of you as "Brazen Careerist" *before* you relaunched the site as a social network. It's the name of your blog, the name of your book, and now the name of your Gen Y social network. So, it's time to take it off my blog. But I'm slow.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog We're nearing the end of email, maybe Posted to: Networking | Self-management April 23rd, 2010 Del.icio.us But then I thought about the viral nature of communication via social networks, and the statistic started to make sense. communication.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 12, 2010

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 30, 2010

For someone with a social/professional networking company, this is very odd! he said he'd announce when they go up in the ask penelope trunk network at brazen. Newspaper archives are fully searchable by the public. But your webinars are no different in essence from a Carter Family broadcast from the 1920s—gone in a flash.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The legislation to ban equine slaughter was passed in 2006, and the last horse kill (in Illinois) was closed in 2007. Anyway, now there are tons of people who want to get rid of horses." " First, the U.S. did not "just" ban horse slaughter.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 29, 2009

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 23, 2010

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Brief back story: I resigned from a job 2 weeks ago and plan to spend the next 6 months networking and volunteering, working as close to part-time as possible just to pay the bills. In my work with other entrepreneurs, many of them forget focus on the people (the networking and the contacts) who can help them obtain their goal.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 14, 2010

Fortunately, we have a bitch session network on Brazen Careerist , and Ryan is in charge of it. But I've been writing about my personal life for ten years, and anyway, the people who complain that I don't write enough career advice are always the people who most love to read my posts about sex. I know I should. Ryan Paugh does.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 15, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Underrated career skill: Asking questions Posted to: Managing Up | Networking December 15th, 2009 Del.icio.us Is this your first time here? " And I told him. And he said, "Okay, and if that happens, what will you do about it?"

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

But then, when I told one of my mentors that I’m not good at sales, he said, “Of course you’re good at sales. Posted by Cat Thrasher on November 21, 2009 at 11:05 am | permalink | Reply > when I told one of my mentors that I’m not good at > sales, he said, “Of course you’re good at sales. I don’t even know the expression.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 6, 2010

It’s the best way to have a meaningful conversation and it’s the best way to rope in a mentor or look like a star performer. It takes a lot of practice and patience to get it "right" and you, your mentor, or anybody else for that matter have a finite amount of time to pursue answers. That rings true to me.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 12, 2010

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 9, 2010

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 5, 2010

Penelope Posted by Penelope Trunk on August 5, 2010 at 9:17 pm | permalink | Reply Penelope, You may also consider looking into networking marketing for business ideas. That's where network marketing can be a benefit to those that seek to be self-employed but lack the experience or training.

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