quarterlife crisis

Are You Too Afraid to Start Your Own Business?

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Ever think of starting your own business? Are you too afraid that you won’t be able to do it? Worried about the cost of a start-up or about your ability to run a company? These are things all entrepreneurs think about.  Fear is a powerful tool, but not a good one.  It’s a setback and it [...]

August 11, 2010 8 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Why I’m Boycotting the Phrase “I Want”

It’s clear that I’m one of the many Gen Y women who want it all: a great career, financial independence and, eventually, few adorable munchkins of my own. If you read my post about my love hate relationship with anxiety, you understand that I’m wired a bit differently than most. My #1 goal for 2010 [...]

May 28, 2010 5 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Busting Myths About Networking

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By, Anne Brown & Thom Singer, co-authors of Some Assembly Required: A Networking Guide for Graduates www.SomeAssemblyRequiredBooks.com Networking is not a simple game of connect-the-dots between whom you know and whom others know. Using a friend’s name without their consent can jeopardize both relationships. You may think that once you have established a close relationship [...]

May 5, 2010 2 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 →

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 →

Annoucing Ms. Career Girl’s Job Search Boot Camp!

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You may have noticed that I have something exciting cooking. I’m writing a pretty cool job search guide for college seniors and recent graduates.  It all started because of your emails and tweets. Many of you share the same fears.  Many of you make the same mistakes when it comes to executing your job search.  These [...]

March 9, 2010 5 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Senior Series: Ready, Aim, Fire.

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The college seniors I’ve talked to lately all have one common question/concern that goes something like this: This ridiculously Type A person I know at school said she has already applied to 37 jobs!  Am I behind because I haven’t done that yet? She has everything organized into a spreadsheet and is STILL applying…should I [...]

February 25, 2010 8 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Are You Suffering from “Entrepreneurial Perfectionism Syndrome”?

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With all the serious blog posts about resumes and interviewing tips lately, today I decided to share a personal story. I have a feeling many young entrepreneurs have experienced something similar. I had a bit of an emotional melt-down this week. It was one of those weird mid-twenties moments where you feel the need to evaluate your life from [...]

February 19, 2010 9 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

What and When is #JobHuntChat?

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What #JobHuntChat is Twitter’s best (and possibly only) chat dedicated to answering job seekers’ real questions. The chat questions are submitted by YOU, not made up.  Your questions will be answered during #JobHuntChat by other job seekers, bloggers, resume writers, career experts, HR professionals, recruiters, and maybe even (according to Rich) @ShitMyDadSays.  We will be tweeting out the questions, and RT’ing the responses that [...]

February 12, 2010 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

One Strategy to Find Out What You Want to Do

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Yesterday I did 3 out of 5 resume reviews for the “Fab Five” who are part of The Senior Series. The resumes were great!  The students’ energy energizes me! One of the girls, Carey, had an excellent resume.  She goes to Georgetown, she has tons of awesome internship experience and her resume is well put [...]

February 3, 2010 6 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →