Category: Career
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How to Find Your Core Values: The Principles That Quietly Guide Your Life
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Please note: This post contains affiliate links to items that you can purchase from Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you. “For everything in your life, answer one question: If I could never tell anyone I did it, and no one would ever know that…
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What Are Your Signature Projects?: The Self-Directed Work You’ve Done That Doesn’t Fit on a Résumé (But Proves What You Can Do)
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We all have what I am calling here “signature projects”–the self-directed work we choose to pursue over months or years, and projects that require learning new skills, sustained effort, and creative or editorial judgment, even when no one is paying us to do them. This post is a tribute to…
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9 Personal Style Analyses Made Easy (and Free!) for DIY Beginners
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Note: This post contains affiliate links to items that you can purchase from Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you. When I was a kid, I didn’t have much leeway for exploring fashion. Like many, I just wore whatever my mom bought me. And that’s…
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The Mystery of the Glittery Coupons
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In honor of today’s National Puzzle Day, I’m going to share with you a post I wrote several years ago about something that has been puzzling me ever since. The Unofficial Project I’m going to tell you about one of my favorite (unofficial) parts of my job, and then maybe…
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How To Avoid Job Search Scams
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“If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.” This age-old advice about how to avoid a scam is probably common sense by now. But what may be less apparent is that it’s possible to get conned even while applying for jobs. We’re all familiar with the cliche…
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The Best Job Search Apps For 2020
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The pandemic has left many without jobs. Here’s a roundup of the best apps to make job searching right from your phone a piece of cake. There are tons of job apps out there. Many of them have the same jobs you’ll find on all of the other apps. Trying…