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The Need for Moral Courage in Leadership with Thought Entrepreneur, Jon Mertz

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I worked in Washington, DC, for about eight years for a senator for my home state in South Dakota, and after two administrations decided that that wasn’t the career path I wanted to remain on. But the reality is that process orientation and the collaboration through government applies extremely well to business.

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

So ask your career center for input on your resume, but don’t let them dictate structure to you. Career centers don’t understand social media. Most people get jobs from their network, not from a career center. And social media is the fastest, most effective way for you to build a network.

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We overestimate the gap between nonprofit and for-profit jobs.

Penelope Trunk

How much greater good would that have accomplished? It's a non profit, NOT the government which steals money. Posted by winelirious on November 4, 2009 at 12:53 am | permalink | Reply I have a choice to do my job in the corporate world, the government space, or in the non-profit world. Amen to that.

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