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Effective Networking: 6 Secrets Your Kids Know

Let's Grow Leaders

We’d spent the last 5 days reconnecting as a family, completely dark from any semblance of social networking. Alright, I’ll be honest… all networking…each night my husband and I requested a table for 4 on this 5 night cruise to Mexico.

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Career Development Goals: Building a Professional Resume & LinkedIn Profile

Create Your Career Path

How are you doing with your career development goals so far this year? One of the biggest career development goals people have this year is to build or update their resume and LinkedIn profile. If needed, create a separate email just for your job search or professional networking. Spell check. Need more help?

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Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development

Adventures in Career Development

If the journey to this special issue began in earnest in Copenhagen in October 2019, the subsequent three years have seen the paths of our lives, careers and academic networks take extremely circuitous routes. These changes have accelerated during the pandemic and its aftermath. What will you find inside?

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Guest post: Equality and inclusive practice in career development

Adventures in Career Development

In this guest post from Ifza Shakoor, she asks recently qualified career professionals with three or fewer years of experience working in the sector in England to participate in her research project about equity and diversity in the career development field. ’s article Is careers work white? .’s Ifza Shakoor.

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Network Like It's 1959

On The Job

You may also want to heed another fashion from that era: in-person networking. You're not likely to see anyone on Mad Men use online social networking to forge a relationship although they do put the "social" in networking with their lunch meetings and after-hour soirees. Make social networking more useful.

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The Benefits of Becoming a Non-Exec Board Member: Advancing Your Career and Network

She Owns Success

Some of the benefits include: Professional Development and Networking Expand Your Network: By engaging with a nonprofit, you can cultivate relationships with individuals from diverse professional backgrounds. Networking : Leverage your professional contacts and participate in networking events relevant to the nonprofit sector.

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Why Your Elevator Pitch Isn’t Working

Let's Grow Leaders

Sadly, the biggest mistake I see aspiring networkers make is that they don’t recognize an “elevator” when they’re in one. confidence grow your career Help People to Grow career development elevator pitch elevator speech networking' But somehow you never seem to get the chance to use it.