On The Job

APRIL 17, 2012

In fashion, what's old is often new again. If you doubt it, just look at the styles coming out this spring: 1950s-style dresses for women and streamlined suits for men just like the characters in Mad Men. 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.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 10, 2012

I have been railing against grad school for a long time, and I’m starting to believe that you should leave grad school off your resume if you are not working in the field you studied. Here are five reasons why putting grad school on your resume makes you look bad. (And at the end of this post, there’s a game plan for what to do with any gap you’ll have when you remove grad school from your resume.). 1.

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Eat Your Career

APRIL 17, 2012

One of the most common complaints I hear has to do with something that is so fundamentally a part of the modern workplace, it’s almost impossible to avoid. Yes, I’m talking about the dreaded interruption. We all have to deal with it, though admittedly, some have it worse than others. A client of mine recently shared her very frustrating situation. You see, due to the office layout, her desk was out in the open, right by the front door, making her a sitting duck.

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Lateral Action

APRIL 26, 2012

Many of us have love/hate relationships with our smartphones. On the one hand, it’s amazing to have so much media and so many gadgets and connections at our fingertips – news, sports, weather, blog feeds, photos, videos, music, calculators, voice recognition, encyclopedias, dictionaries, rhyming dictionaries, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn… and of course, email.

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On The Job

APRIL 6, 2012

People known for their charisma must have been born with it — because if charisma could be learned everyone would have it, right? Olivia Fox Cabane says charisma can be learned, but many people don't understand how to go about it. They make attempts that fall flat or use strategies that make them seem fake, annoying and arrogant. "You can be born with a predisposition for charisma," she says.

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On The Job

APRIL 11, 2012

Journalism has always been one of those professions that demands experience before you even get your first job at a television station or newspaper. In my case, I began working for the school newspaper and writing articles for my hometown newspaper by the time I was 17. In college, I was required to work on the school newspaper and have internships before I graduated.

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On The Job

APRIL 24, 2012

Since technology can keep us connected to work 24/7, many companies are scrapping the idea of traditional office space and instead embracing the idea that work can happen remotely. Still, such arrangements can come with challenges: • How does a boss keep employees engaged when they're thousands of miles away? • How can a leader communicate key concepts effectively so that workers are on the same page?

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On The Job

APRIL 13, 2012

If you’ve ever been unemployed, you know the joy that comes from finally getting that job offer. But that elation may be tempered by the fact that the job pays less than your previous one, or is certainly lower on the career status level than you desire. According to an Urban Institute research, job seekers have taken positions that pay 16 percent less than what they earned before the Great Recession.

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On The Job

APRIL 20, 2012

Are you one of those men who favors the use of sports analogies to explain everything from giving birth to taking over a third world country? Do you find nothing wrong with the fact that you chew your nails, tell dirty jokes and leave the toilet seat up? If so, you may fit right in with the 12-year-olds at soccer camp, but in the world of work,you stick out like a foul-mouthed, ragged-nail, thoughtless slob who should never be put in charge of anything and certainly never worked with closely if

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 27, 2012

In the airport a fight attendant said to my six-year-old son, “Where are you going today?”. He said, “California.”. She said, “You’re a lucky boy!”. He said, “Actually, I’m really tired of going to airports with my mom.”. This is because I’ve been taking him on all my business trips. And he is learning something important about business travel: It’s really, really hard to do a lot of it, and you need a strategy.

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Eat Your Career

APRIL 4, 2012

On a recent free coaching call , I heard from a loyal blog reader who was feeling distraught. In a nutshell, her situation was this: After interviewing for almost six months, she thought it as a “sure thing” that she’d be offered a new position in her department. Then, as if from nowhere, an external candidate was selected for the role. After all the time and energy she had committed to this, she was left feeling frustrated, demotivated and betrayed.

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Eat Your Career

APRIL 2, 2012

People ask me this question all the time. I think it’s silly but, obviously, there’s a great deal of concern out there. So, I want to address this issue once and for all. Yes, career change is absolutely possible—regardless of the state of the economy. There. I said it. But I know it takes more than that to convince you. I recently had the honor of interviewing Dick Bolles , author of “ What Color Is Your Parachute?

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Eat Your Career

APRIL 9, 2012

Today, I’d like to address the age-old question of education and employment. What’s the correlation? And, given today’s economy, how much does education matter? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t perfectly clear. I hear from a lot of people who are unemployed or underemployed, and they always want to know: Should I take advantage of this time by going back to school?

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APRIL 16, 2012

Image by Radhika Bhagwat Are you spending the majority of your time keeping up with business-related tasks rather than creating? Are you lacking the passion you once felt for your business? Is your creative time continually being pushed to the back burner? If you answered ‘yes’ to the above questions, I’m guessing you’re feeling a […].

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Eat Your Career

APRIL 6, 2012

In case you missed it, I held my free coaching call for the month of April earlier this week. You can listen to the recorded version using the audio player below. Please Note: We’ll me taking the month of May off due to a few big projects I have in the works. If you’d like to participate in the next call happening Thursday, June 7 , please register and submit a question by visiting this page.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 13, 2012

You do not need to have a life full of passion. What is that life, anyway? You probably don’t even know what passion is. But if you really thought about what you were aiming for when you talk about passion and careers, eventually you’d get to the idea of engagement. This is not a controversial thought: that you would want to be engaged in your work.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 25, 2012

The novel Fifty Shades of Grey is selling faster than a Harry Potter book right now. The book is about sexual domination in a contemporary setting, including the career woman who has everything, including a hot, successful boyfriend. The big news is that we have enough data to show that the majority of women buying Fifty Shades of Gray are in their 20s and 30s living in urban areas, according to the publisher’s data, and the Atlantic.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 16, 2012

Sheryl Sandberg, the woman who runs Facebook , has said that the most important career choice you’ll make is who you marry. I have to agree with this statement. Here’s why: If you marry someone with a big career and you want to have a big career you have to find that rare mate who can treat you as an equal, even when your career needs to come first.

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On The Job

APRIL 26, 2012

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2012

Last month I gave a speech at the Natural Products Expo in California, and I took my son with me. Everyone’s an entrepreneur in my family, and my son’s first thought was that this would be a good way to expand his egg business. He knows the eggs he gets from our chicken coop garner a high price from natural food types. “This isn’t where you sell regular food,” I tell him. “This is more like a convention for processed natural food.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 2, 2012

Melissa’s in China, which means I have to wake up at four in the morning to talk, which means we have no phone calls, and her emails are unsatisfyingly delayed. I miss her. She is with Steven , who I think is buying her a ring. Going to China with Steven was a good idea because men love being in a foreign country with a woman who can speak the language.

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Speaker: Jennifer Brick, Career Strategist and Author

Your employees have checked out. The last few years have been a wild ride, with countless changes to how we work and our workplace cultures, like the sudden shift to remote work, the return to office, and trends like quiet quitting. With productivity, profitability, and your employer brand on the line, leadership is turning to HR to engage employees and recreate your culture in different working models.

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