April 2010

The New Career Girl: Gen Y Women Redefine Success

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Two weeks ago I asked you what your 10 year vision looked like. Last week I asked you to consider some awkward scenarios that apply to women at work. And you already know that I don’t believe in the traditional job search or the traditional career path method. As I do research for my book [...]

April 27, 2010 9 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Monday Must-Reads: Get What You Want

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Why Networking is a Waste of Time for Some Grads.  Yep, it’s true.  Some recent grads are wasting their time. Interview with Kerry Hannon, nationally acclaimed personal finance contributing editor and retirement correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and author of WHAT’S NEXT? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job (comes out April [...]

April 26, 2010 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Love Dove? Be Their Next Correspondent

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What do you do when you are crabby, stressed out or are having an “ugly” week?  I go to my local drug store. Then I buy something that smells good in the beauty department to lift my spirits. Apparently I’m not alone.  According to a recent study, 60% of women stated that fragrances have the [...]

April 23, 2010 6 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Are You Guilty of Common Female Prejudices at Work?

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Last night at dinner my 17 year old sister was telling me all about her AP Psychology class.  Her class is watching a film in which ABC set up different awkward situations to see how the common person reacted, if they would call for help and, therefore, if they were prejudice. For example, one of the situations had a [...]

April 22, 2010 19 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Effective Immediately: Meet Emily Bennington!

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Today’s post is an interview with the one and only, Ms. Emily Bennington.  Emily and I met in person for the first time in Columbus, Ohio about 2 weeks ago.  We spent the day sharing story after story about work, life and our first few years after college.  As you can imagine, we laughed just as [...]

April 21, 2010 5 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Stop Searching, Start Working: 2 Things You Should do while Unemployed

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“Make your life one giant networking event.” ~Dan Schawbel I graduated college in May 2009 and it wasn’t until I let go of the idea that I needed to spend all day every day looking for work and well, start working, that I began getting job leads. It’s the NUMBER ONE rule of the job [...]

April 19, 2010 13 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Monday Must-Reads: Live in the Moment, Live a Happier Life

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Happy Monday!  I hope you had a great weekend.  Katie and I spent the weekend in Oxford, Ohio visiting our Alma mater Miami University for the first time since we graduated 4 years ago. I was lucky enough to have a long lunch with my favorite college professor (a man who has greatly impacted my [...]

April 19, 2010 4 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

What’s Your 10 Year Vision?

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Sometimes you just have to take a few minutes to to stop and check out where you are, where you’re going and where you want to be. In honor of the beautiful weather on Wednesday, two of my best friends and I enjoyed an impromptu gathering at Chicago’s finest Mexican and margarita establishment (for those of you [...]

April 16, 2010 16 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Free Samples Theory: Why Volunteering Could Get You Hired

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As the program coordinator of NeighborScapes’s Civic Leadership Corps for low-income youth from 14 to 24 years old, and as an AmeriCorps VISTA about to complete her year-long term, I’ve been talking- and hearing- a lot about volunteering lately. The arguments for volunteering are many and well-known- it makes you feel good, it’s needed, it’s [...]

April 13, 2010 15 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Monday Must-Reads: Evaluate Yourself and Have a Good Week

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I hope you all had a great weekend!  The weather here in Chicago was beautiful.  The highlights of my weekend include: Putting on a very fun “Social Media 101″ workshop in the suburbs where I met lots of great people. Indulging in Mari Luangrath‘s “Foiled Cupcakes.”  They beat out any fancy-schmancy $80 dozen of city [...]

April 12, 2010 9 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Reality and the City

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“Dear Carrie Bradshaw, You are a [swear word] liar.” This is the first line of Jen Lancaster‘s book, “Bright Lights, Big Ass.”  Ms. Lancaster has a point. Ever since my aunt was in law school downtown Chicago (I was a whole 10 years old complete with a perm, poofy bangs and a size 9 shoe) I knew I wanted to grow [...]

April 9, 2010 16 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Warning: Your Major is Not a Floatation Device

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Ms. Career Girl Confession: When I was in college I hid behind my major- big time.  I felt smart and respected saying I was a finance major.  I was proud that I was in a traditionally male dominated program and industry.  I felt that having this major meant I was going to become an investment [...]

April 8, 2010 19 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

How 8 months of Unemployment Turned out to be a Blessing in Disguise

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Unemployment can be a really frustrating time. If you’ve just come out of college you might be feeling pretty disillusioned and thinking, “I went to college for this.” I feel ya. I went to grad school and came out of school into a recession for the second time in my life. Talk about a rude [...]

April 5, 2010 23 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Dear Ms. Career Girl Critics, I Heart “Me”

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Things are absolutely nuts in my world and I couldn’t be happier about it. What started out as “Job Search Boot Camp” has quickly evolved into something even more fabulous.  I cannot wait to share more about this project with you over the next few weeks.  All I can say is that it has a [...]

April 1, 2010 42 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →