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  • Building Actionable Relationships from Social Networking

    Building Actionable Relationships from Social Networking

    By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Deborah Shane I was asked to keynote at our Social Media Club. The topic, “social media in the boardroom.” I presented on “Building Actionable Relationships from Social Networking,” a subject I have a lot of experience with the past three years. I took a little trip down “memory lane” in putting this together, and reviewed HOW I [...]

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  • C-Twip #10: 18 Time Saving Tricks for Everyday Life

    What’s a C-Twip? c-twip (see-twip) noun 1. Career advice rendered from the social media platform of Twitter.

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  • Avoiding Jargon and Acronyms on Your Resume

    Avoiding Jargon and Acronyms on Your Resume

    By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Jessica Holbrook Hernandez I recently met a woman who had started a new job with a Fortune 50 company several months ago. While she enjoyed some aspects of her new position, she was having a very difficult time adjusting to the culture of her new company due to the other employees constantly using acronyms she didn’t understand. [...]

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  • 10 Ways to Advance Your Career Using Chatter

    10 Ways to Advance Your Career Using Chatter

    By CAREEREALISM Founder, J.T. O’Donnell Recently, I read an interview in BusinessWeek with Salesforce.com Chairman & CEO, Marc Benioff regarding

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  • 7 Surprising Reasons You Didn’t Get a Call Back for that Job

    7 Surprising Reasons You Didn’t Get a Call Back for that Job

    It’s natural to wonder why you didn’t get an interview – or perhaps make it to the second round – for a job you thought was a perfect fit. While I always feel it’s best to ask the hiring manager what went wrong, do a little self-analysis first. Perhaps you made one of the following mistakes:

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  • How to Make Wise Career Choices

    How to Make Wise Career Choices

    By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Chrissy Scivicque Life is full of choices. Some require little thought or reflection—like the choice of what to eat for dinner— while others demand rigorous deliberation. When it comes to your career, you’ve likely already made several difficult choices in the past and will undoubtedly face many more.

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  • Career Development Feedback? Or Feed-forward?

    Career Development Feedback? Or Feed-forward?

    By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Andria Corso Feedback is defined as the return of information about performance, a process or an activity. Whether we like to receive it or not, feedback is an essential part of career development. If you don’t know how you’ve been doing, how will you know where you need to improve, grow and develop? Feedback is a look [...]

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  • Define Exactly What Life and Career Success Means to You

    Define Exactly What Life and Career Success Means to You

    By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Bud Bilanich Success Tweet 1: Define exactly what life and career success mean to you. It’s easier to hit a clear, unambiguous target. Career success begins with clarity of purpose and direction. As the tweet says, it’s easier to hit a clear, unambiguous target. Successful people know what they want in life. However, career success means different [...]

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  • The New Grad Quagmire

    The New Grad Quagmire

    By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Emily Bennington It’s an interesting dilemma for new grads these days. Assuming you’re lucky enough to score a job, you’ll find yourself thrown into a workforce for which you’ve (probably) received little or no formal training. Sadder still, you probably won’t receive much on-the-job training either. If you work for a large corporation, my guess is they’ll [...]

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  • 2 Strategies for Combating Ageism on Your LinkedIn Profile Photo

    2 Strategies for Combating Ageism on Your LinkedIn Profile Photo

    Speaking at the Engineering Symposium in Portland recently, I had 2 conversations back to back that were exactly the same. Now, I wasn’t surprised, when speaking to a group of 100 engineers, ALL of them much smarter than me. I also wasn’t surprised to see many baby-boomers in the audience. So the conversations I had after my presentation were expected. [...]

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