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Announcing: Brazen Careerist Top 50 Places to Work | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Announcing: Brazen Careerist Top 50 Places to Work Posted to: Job Hunt December 16th, 2009 Del.icio.us Gen Y doesn’t consider salary to be a huge factor in choosing a place to work because Gen Y knows that salary data is public.

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

Penelope Trunk

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook My ex-husband worked in the nonprofit sector for a while. Paying way below a living wage is elitist—as if working in a nonprofit is a rich kids’ playground that your parents fund. They do not want to make a profit, so they put all the money they make back into the Foundation.

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Trend watch: HR, texting, needlepoint | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Trend watch: HR, texting, needlepoint Posted to: Self-management May 30th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I am in NYC with no money. This used to happen all the time. I am an ace at traveling without any money, but I’m sick of it.

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List of things I hate #3 | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

In that vein, life is the process of expanding our love and our knowledge, and I suppose, our hate. Sarcasm reveals insecurity and cynicism – both things that make a person unlikable. If your project is important, find someone who has done it before, with someone who was great. Is this your first time here?

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Shifting the balance of power. (Mainstream media stinks.

Penelope Trunk

But this at least makes the Farmer laugh.) So I tell the Today Show that I can make it only if they will fly my kids and the nanny with me. She cancels violin lessons and cello lessons and a reading tutor. She cancels violin lessons and cello lessons and a reading tutor. Mainstream media stinks.) I said yes.

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

Penelope Trunk

It would be so great, and helpful, if college career centers could be front and center in every student’s planning. About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to manage a college education Posted to: College students January 21st, 2010 Del.icio.us Here are some good links on Ben's blog.)

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Workplace news you cannot use | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Law firms are making concessions for women. And it turns out that if you give a lawyer a part-time job, she ends up working 50 hours a week instead of 80, and gets part-time credit, which isn’t exactly encouraging. She wrote a great piece for the Daily Beast, about the orgasm gap between men and women. I like Hannah.

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