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An A-Z Guide for Successful Career Design

She Owns Success

This could include finding out who in your network is in this career path or similar, or who knows someone, meeting for coffee with someone in this career path, arranging to shadow someone in this career path, or taking a short course. That is until I worked in a hospital on night shifts! Take it from me.

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

Penelope Trunk

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. As a Gen-Y who stopped going to college I found that real life experiences, networks and self education were more important and vital than a college education for my career track.

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How to hit a wall at work, with grace | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

If hospitals in NYC did this, there would be a run on grilled cheese ingredients all over the city. Write about how to find autonomy at work, about the farmer, about how to network and build a community. in my opinion; most people do not own nor recognize their "shadow" selves.and so disown their anger/frustration etc.

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How to put blog comments to good use | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

As important as self-awareness is to both our well-being, and getting along with our loved ones, it also has its shadow. Of course with the market downturn, I think the commentators have become even more "bitter" to the current experts, so you were probably ahead of the curve in finding a more hospitable forum.

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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

Penelope Trunk

My company, Brazen Careerist , just launched a company section in our social network. And Jeremy Owyang, from Forrester Research reports that, "In approximately two years social networks will be more powerful than corporate web sites. Depends on the line of work (police, hospital, fire brigade?). It's a Safari bug.

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