It had been 2 years since she had joined this team. She planned her moves perfectly and that resulted in a promotion and the potential of another in the near future. At one point, this is what she thought she wanted to do for the rest of her working life, but now she felt stuck. She…
Month: August 2016
When you can’t quit your day job you may need to balance it with a passion or two.
She was running from meeting to meeting, deadline to deadline, and one project to the next (or multiple at a time). She had chosen a career that she thought was for her, but it wasn’t panning out like she had imagined. It was exhausting and sometimes mundane. All the super ambitious goals she had with…
You’re doing the interviewing too.
It seemed like she was going to be an intern forever. She had been interning far longer than she should have been and still couldn’t land a real job. The internship was pretty awesome (i.e., subsidized housing in an awesome city, real experience, and some cool coworkers), but telling people she was an intern was…
Wear a suit.
After months of applying, searching, and endless phone interviews, she finally got a call for her first in-person interview. Excited about the opportunity to interview, she had extensively researched the company and had even done some mock interviews with her friends. But she had missed one thing…what to wear. After a thorough review of her…
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