How Do I Figure Out My Next Career Steps
- The Slide Pack: Figuring Out My Next Steps
Further Resources: World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report
Further Resources: World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report
2. Inappropriate Email Addresses: When the internet arrived and getting emails were a novelty, a lot of people had rather interesting email addresses. Such addresses as ‘gorgeousbaby87@hotmail.com’ were rife. It is important to provide recruiters, potential employers and other professional acquaintances with a simple, standard email address at which they can reach you.
Fix It – Create a different email address for professional purposes. Your first and last names separated by a dot, underscore or hyphen for example, work very well.
As millennial women, we have been told all sorts. You can’t have it all. You have to choose between a career and a family. Work-life balance is unattainable. It’s a myth. And many others. But it’s 2017 and in case you haven’t noticed, women have been breaking glass ceilings in their careers WHILST managing a…
In her book, Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg makes a counterintuitive point about mentors. Shift your thinking from “If I get a mentor, I’ll excel” to “If I excel, I will get a mentor.” It’s an important distinction to make when career building and it’s a tip that is as effective in Nigeria as it is…
Slides on Health & Wellness Depression in Women The EatWell Guide
Most millennial women–and twice as many millennial women as millennial men- see becoming a parent as an impediment to their careers. Among working women with children, more than half say that being a working parent has made it harder for them to advance in their careers; only 16% of men said the same. (source: pewsocialtrends.org)…
Why do some people do better at work than others? How do top performers do less, work better and achieve more? According to Morten T. Hansen, they do it through a profound understanding of “what a person should work on (job design); how the person should improve over time (learning); why a person should exert…