Advice for the New Careerist

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Learn, Work, Lead: Things Your Mentor Won’t Tell You

What Isn’t Your Mentor Telling You?

In today’s world, women’s career success relies on much more than just taking advice from a mentor, knowing how to network, and being proactive. Young professional women have to learn how to analyze career decisions for themselves and figure out what to do when their decisions don’t work out.

Learn, Work, Lead: Things Your Mentor Won’t Tell You  is a cutting-edge career and job search guide that will teach you those skills and give you the tools to navigate successfully in a gender-biased workplace. It will show you how to plan your career now so that you will be chosen to lead in the future.

Learn, Work Lead, an Amazon bestseller, was listed by London’s Financial Times in the article “Reader’s Favourite Books of 2014”.

You can find the book here: Learn, Work, Lead: Things Your Mentor Won’t Tell You

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NI1LWLO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1  

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Job Applications Gaining Importance

Filling out a job application gives you more opportunity to get noticed than you have when you just submit a resume and cover letter. http://www.thenewcareerist.com/?p=2325 

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Have You Made This Networking Mistake?

Young professionals know that they must network to get ahead in their careers, but are they doing it? Would you grab at the chance to connect given this offer? Read article Here

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Recent Grads Explore New Ways to Network

New grads take networking to levels the previous generation couldn't even imagine. They are making use of niche networking sites online and at their corner coffee shop. Read article HERE

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Debora Spar's Wonder Women Sends an Important Message to Gen Y Women

Debora Spar, in Wonder Women, delivers an important message to Millennial women. "Having it all" may not be what you thought. Read article HERE

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Write Your Resume for the Job You Want, Not the Job You Had

Ways to highlight your experience so your resume appeals to recruiters in your favored company and industry. http://www.thenewcareerist.com/?p=2276

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After you accept a job make sure you circle back to all the people that helped you during your job search. 

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Coming out on Top in Email Chain Battles

Everyone's been involved in endless email chains that seem more like arguments than discussions. Here are some tips for getting others on an  email chain to come over to your side

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Recent Grads Creatively Optimize their Resumes

Even as the job market improves, smart grads are creatively tweaking their resumes to give themselves the best shot at their preferred job. Read article HERE

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When Representing Your Company, It Can't Hurt to Ask

  From an early age you realize that rejection is tough. HERE'S one story which taught me that at work, it can't hurt to ask.

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My Strategies for Killing Stress

Workplace stress can follow us all home. Here's what I do to get rid of it before it spreads.

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Recent Grads Creatively Build Experience Into Their Resumes

Recent grads have learned lots of tricks to push their resume to the top of the heap. Experience is the biggest differentiator- here's how they get it. Read article HERE

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Working Well with Your Administrative Assistant.

Ever had trouble getting along with and getting what you want from office support staff? Watch this VIDEO for a few tips.

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STEM Jobs for Women: Beware of Unique Career Challenges

The U.S. needs to continue promoting more women from STEM careers, but as numbers increase, the STEM careerist should be aware of unique challenges in her field. Read article HERE

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Another Argument Against Work/Life Balance

Adding a perspective to Lean In that Sheryl Sandberg doesn't have; even for those leaving the workforce, Leaning In is the right choice. Read article HERE

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You've been screwed at work, now what should you do? Fix the problem by taking the following steps. Read article  HERE

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Reading Between the Lines at the Office

A savvy professional can read between the lines at the office. Here's how to identify and deal with those situations where perceptiveness will help a lot. Read article HERE