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Female Entrepreneurs – The Women Who Scratch Their Bugbites

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Wanting to start your own business feels a lot like a bug bite. It itches and you scratch at it all day long. When it bites — some bite back. Others simply spread ointment over it and call it a day. I tip my hat to women in business — the ones that say, “screw [...]

January 25, 2012 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

How to Quit Your Job with Grace

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A big welcome to Melody Kiella!  This is Melody’s first guest post on MsCareerGirl.com! Recently I made a job change that required me to reevaluate my career goals, step out of my comfort zone, and resign from my first professional position. I had been working as an in-house attorney for a small Atlanta-based company for [...]

January 16, 2012 5 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

What Recent Grads and Job Seekers can Learn from Content Marketers

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I worked for a content marketing agency that convinced its clients that the buying cycle has changed. It was there that I realized — there’s a lot that  recent graduates can learn from content marketers.  For those of you who don’t know what content marketing is — here’s a drilled down definition from a sort [...]

January 10, 2012 0 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

I’m Thankful to be Without a Title…sort of.

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It’s the time of the year where (if you live in the United States at least) you sit around the table and eat turkey, or maybe tofu turkey, if you’re one of those vegetarians (I’m a vegetarian, I can say that. Although I might be joining the “meat” side this Thursday, we’ll [...]

November 23, 2011 3 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Pressure of Being in Your Mid 20′s

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I’m 24, living in New York City and refer to both my tiny apartment on the upper west side and my parent’s home in upstate New York as my “home.” Besides the fact that I haven’t been able to disconnect my “home” in New York City with my “home” in upstate New York, there are [...]

November 20, 2011 11 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Is “CEO’s Disease” Really a Good Thing for Your Business or Career?!

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I was watching a great Ted Talk given my Cameron Herhold (former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK) last night which mentioned that many successful CEO’s and Entrepreneurs have bi-polar disorder (manic depression).  In fact,  this phenomenon is so common that many business writers & bloggers refer to it as “CEO’s disease.”  This whole idea really surprised me, [...]

November 2, 2011 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Career Question: “I’m Not Happy but I Don’t Know What I Want to do”

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Dear Nicole, I’m 26 and have been working with a great international company for the past 4 years. I started in Customer Relations and have been promoted several times and am now a Regional Sales Manager. It has been a great company to work for and I have enjoyed learning so much as I’ve moved [...]

July 9, 2011 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

How I Left Corporate America at 26 to do What I Love

I’ve been fantasizing about the day I’d get to write this post for a long time.  It’s official: a new chapter of my career has begun. For those who don’t know my story, I have a finance degree.  I got a finance degree because I wanted to have “job security, even in a bad economy,” [...]

March 29, 2011 52 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

How to Avoid Being Ripped Off on Car Insurance

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Ladies (& Gentlemen!), this topic might sound a little off beat in comparision to the usual topics here at Ms. Career Girl.  I decided to include this post in our line up because car insurance is one of those little details that is part of this whole “growing up” thing.  At 26, I’m about to purchase my first car and these [...]

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

La (Debt-Free) Dolce Vita

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By, Rachel Hansen After reading Nicole’s Credit Card Confessions, I knew I had to chime in. You see, I’m one of those “frugalistas” Target is always, well, targeting. A coupon-toting, ebay-loving, craigslist-furniture-buying cheapskate. And while “cheap” might not have that enticing, where-do-I-sign-up ring to it, I’m here to convince you otherwise. But before I get [...]

September 16, 2010 3 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →