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Business Would Benefit From A New Word: To Proact

Simon Sinek | Posted 09.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Stress Management, Small Business, Career Advice, Business, Long Term Planning, Recession, Management, Stress Reduction, Business News

I'm using the verb "to proact" on a regular basis now, especially at work and in a strategic context. No matter the situation, I want proaction to be the primary strategy.

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How To Have The Right Answers To All The Wrong Questions

Christine Hassler | Posted 09.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Advice, Twenty-Something Advice, The Balanced Life, Gen Y, Living News

Just because someone -- even a parent -- asks you questions about your life, does not mean you are obligated to know the answer. Stop caring so much what other people think and think for yourself.

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How to Quit Your Job

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 09.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Severance Pay, Job Market, Career, Giving Notice, Job Layoffs, Career Advice, Jobs, Quitting, Career Change, Happiness, Living News

Leaving a job on purpose is an unusual concept for our parents and grandparents, who generally stayed with the same job their whole lives.

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How To Make Your Resumé Stand Out

Christine Hassler | Posted 09.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Advice, Twenty-Something Advice, The Balanced Life, Resume Tips, Job Search, Gen Y, Living News

Dear Christine, How do I get noticed by potential employers when they are receiving hundreds of resumes a day? - Wanting to Stand Out, Boston, 24 Dea...

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Job Hunting - Keys To Making the Kill

Christine Hassler | Posted 08.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Advice, Interviewing Tips, Twenty-Something Advice, The Balanced Life, Networking, Gen Y, Job Hunt, Living News

Dear Christine, I am currently looking for a job and am overwhelmed by the amount of advice there is out there. I feel like I need to read everything...

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Too Many Choices: How To Be Satisfied With Your Decisions

Psychology Today | Kirsten Vala | Posted 08.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Advice, Career Choices, Choices, Living News

In America, people are faced with more and more decisions every day, whether it's picking one of 31 ice cream flavors or deciding whether and when to...

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How To Get Out Of A Funk And Make A Career Change

Christine Hassler | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Advice, Twenty-Something Advice, Career, The Balanced Life, Gen Y, Living News

Dear Christine, A few years ago I landed my dream job that required me to move out of state. After 2 1/2 years it was all work and no play. Even tho...

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How To Work With People Who Won't Do Their Job

Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 08.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Job Advice, Career Advice, Lazy Worker, The Balanced Life, Lazy Co-Worker, Office Politics, Living News

How aggravating is it when you are trying to get your work done but your work relies on other people who just don't do their job? This infuriating ph...

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A Kick In the Career: The Perils of Personal Branding

Thomas Stern | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Personal Branding, Work, Humor, Happiness, Career, Self-Awareness, Career Advice, Business News

If nobody in the boardroom has your custom-designed logo tattooed onto his or her forehead, you need to reevaluate your marketing strategy.

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How to Nail a Job Interview

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Job Market, Job Hunt Mistakes, Public Speaking, Career Advice, Jobs, The Full Life, Job Interviews, Resume Tips, Corporate Culture, Job Hunt, Living News

A job interview isn't all that different from a public speech, except that in interviews you sit down, listen more than speak, and are the world's expert on the topic, you.

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Net-Etiquette For Job Seekers

Christine Hassler | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Linkedin, The Balanced Life, Social Networking, Social Networking Sites, Gen Y, Career Advice, Twenty-Something Advice, Employeers, Employee, Facebook, Job Search, Living News

Checking out potential and current employees via social networking sites is an extra layer to the hiring process that more and more employers are using -- think of it as part of your resume.

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Four Years Of Savings Can Set You Up For Life

WallStreetFighter | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Investing, Money Advice for College Grads, How Do I Make My Money Make More Money, Investing Advice, Money, Career Advice, Investing Mistakes, Investing Tips, Savings, College Graduates, Advice for College Grads, Business News

For all you recent college graduates entering the workforce, I realize that "Start Thinking About Your Savings" might be the lamest piece of advice ut...

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Stuffy Office Environment

Christine Hassler | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Baby Boomer, The Balanced Life, Workplace, Gen Y, Careerbuilder, Career Advice, Work-Life Balance, Twenty Something, Work Environment, Culture, Living News

Baby-boomers did not grow up with messages like "work should be fun" and "be passionate about your career." To them, a job is a job.

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My Dad at Seventy

Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Advice, Sons, Growing Up, Aging, Fatherhood, Father's Day, Fathers, Living News

I have many grown male friends, and I am one of the lucky ones. A number of my friends have lost their dads. And of those that still have them, most don't have much of a relationship. I do.

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Google Hiring Babysitters, Massage Therapists, Chefs

Silicon Alley Insider | Vasanth Sridharan | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Careers at Google, Tech Jobs, Google Careers, Jobs at Google, Career Advice, Tech Careers, Google Jobs, Google, Business News

Want to work for Google -- but you can't code and don't have an MBA? You're not completely out of luck: We've scanned the 793 positions open in the U....

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Green Careers: Ten Guides To Getting A Green Job

TakePart.com | Nicole Hughes | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Career Advice, Job Advice, Get a Job, Green Job, Green Career, Green News

These top 10 guides to finding the perfect eco career can help you navigate through the sustainable waters of the environmental job market by providin...

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Message to Graduates: "Be a Good Ancestor"

Samantha Power | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living

Read More: College Students, Darfur, Graduation, Samantha Power, College, Graduation Speeches, Genocide, Career Advice, Pitzer College, Samantha Power Monster, Living News

My generation and our predecessors haven't been responsible caretakers. But you can be. Be resilient. Find friends who have your back. And above all, be a good ancestor. You can. And you must.

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Violence! Shame! And A Little Career Advice...

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Ge, Career Advice, Ask Bing, Business News

It's an Ask Bing day today. I admit it's been a little while since I stepped up to the bar and answered some of the many questions that pour into my d...

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All About Email At The Office

Christine Hassler | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Personal Email at Work, Career Advice, Work Screening Emails, Work Reading Emails, Work Advice, Living News

Dear Christine, I work very long hours at my job, and because of this schedule, I use my personal email at work and I know many of my co-workers do ...

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What's A Millennial To Do?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Finance, Journalism, Business School, Millenials, Automotive, Career Advice, Media, Public Relations, Advertising, Business News

God created youth for people to do what they wanted to do. When you get a little bit older, life closes in on you and, caught in a variety of strictures produced by our ambitions, desires and needs, we each take on responsibilities that require us to do a bunch of stuff we don't wanna.

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Macho Man Asks For Career Advice

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Job Advice, Working for a Woman, Female Bosses, Career Advice, Business News

Being a success in any operation -- from the Army to the Church to IBM -- means dressing, talking, working and playing the way people think a successful person does in that environment. I

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Quiz: Are You the Office Party Animal?

CareerBuilder.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Quiz, Career Advice, Careerbuilder, Living News

A parody on "must-have" office handbooks, "Cube Monkeys: A Handbook for Surviving the Office Jungle" by The Editors of CareerBuilder.com and Second Ci...

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10 Things You Should Never Do at Work

CareerBuilder.com | Mary Lorenz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Job Advice, Career Advice, Job Search, Careerbuilder, Living News

From the e-mails we "forget" to return to the voice mails we "never received," telling little white lies has become a very real part of our workplace ...

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Get a Job Working From Home

CareerBuilder.com | Kate Lorenz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Career Advice, How to Work From Home, Career Change, Careerbuilder, Living News

It hardly seems fair: By the time you've dragged yourself out of bed, showered, ironed your last clean shirt, located your keys, gotten out of the doo...

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