generation Y

Not Satisfied with Your Life? How to Change Careers

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Okay. Let’s admit it—you hate your job. Or, at least, you find that stress from work is affecting your personal life for the worse. And when your work life has been constantly interfering with the satisfaction and quality of your personal life, it’s probably time for a fresh start and a new career. So how [...]

December 6, 2011 3 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

A Manager’s Perspective on Extra Time Off

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I work for a small company that is only able to offer part-time hours to most of its employees. A couple weeks ago, just as cold and flu season was starting to set in and people were beginning to use their sick days, I had several additional employees with life issues. One employee was struggling [...]

November 21, 2011 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

How to Monetize Your Blog

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This is the fifth post in a series of 5 posts about blogging: why to start, how to start,how to get readers, how to build community and how to monetize your blog. There are so many ways to monetize a blog these days.  The catch is that most of these ways require a LOT of traffic.  More [...]

October 17, 2011 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Ask Ms. Career Girl: How do I Transition to a Career I Have no Experience in?

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Submit your career and life questions to nicole@mscareergirl.com! Q: Like you, I was a finance major as an undergrad. Why finance? Because it was what all of the prestigious kids took, of course, and I wanted to waltz around Wall St in thousand dollar suits too! I actually started undergrad as an English major (I [...]

May 26, 2011 9 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Do I Look too Young to be Taken Seriously at Work?

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A note from Nicole: Today’s post is a MUST READ for every young female professional out there! Regardless of what industry you are in- this doesn’t just happen in business, ask your friends who are teachers- you are likely to face some pressure (if not just plain old insecurity) about appearing too young. I’ve personally [...]

May 17, 2011 12 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

8 Tips for Advancing Any Career

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Everyone wants to live up to his or her potential in life. For some people, this means that they want to have a big family or contribute to charities. For others, it means advancing as far as possible in their career. Career advancement can be a stressful and difficult process. It is hard to understand [...]

November 3, 2010 9 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Balancing Act of a “Mompreneur”

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The balancing act of being a wife, new mom and career woman is like walking a tightrope. Sometimes I glance down and am shocked to find there is no safety net below. I start to shake and worry if I can make it; so much to do and so little time and energy. Then, there [...]

November 1, 2010 0 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Changing Fields: Advice from a Career Coach

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Today’s career dilemma is addressed by Chrissy Scivicque, founder of eatyourcareer.com. “Dear Chrissy,  I love your blog and the career advice you give, so I felt you were the perfect person to ask about my career dilemma.  I currently work in the financial world and am eager to make a switch into marketing.  Although I don’t have [...]

August 2, 2010 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

What I Learned from Bethenny and Ramit this Week

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Happy Friday!  It has been a great week in my world, thanks in part to two people: Bethenny Frankel and Ramit Sethi.  No, I am not cool enough to be friends with either of these fabulous people in real life.  BUT, I am cool enough to read their blogs and take their advice seriously on two [...]

July 16, 2010 5 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Win Gen Y’s Trust via Experiential Marketing 2.0

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You’ve heard the statistics before… Gen Y doesn’t trust advertisements; we trust the people in our social networks.  But overall, Gen Y doesn’t trust much at all.  If you’re a big company of any kind, you will have to work much harder to win over the 70 million Gen Y consumers living among us. How Should Marketers [...]

June 29, 2010 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →