Career Insights & Advice Archive
Kate White: Go Bigger and Bolder in Your Career
Kate White, The New York Times best-selling author of “The Gutsy Girl Handbook” and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, shared her secrets for career success and her key strategies that she swears by ...
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Find the Meaning in Your Career
Do you love what you do? Do you care about your work-life balance now and will you care about your work-life balance in five years? These are just a few of the self-evaluating questions raised by Ann Shoket, the former ...
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Balancing Work & Family
If you need to broach the issue of caregiving with your boss Performing well as an employee is key. If you are, approach your boss so you can work it out together. (Valerie) Know that the only legal protection for ...
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Defining Your Own Brand
One of the key things in building a brand is to be consistent. Building familiarity and repetition across channels—from your message to your headshot—will help people remember you. You want to have one thing that makes you the go-to person ...
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Building Your Personal Brand
As someone who’s just starting to brand herself professionally and personally, one of the best tips I’ve ever received was “Don’t be strict and don’t be afraid. Post what makes you happy, makes you laugh, inspires you, makes you think ...
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3 Reasons You Need to Manage Your Personal Brand
Whether you or I like it or not, right now, at this exact minute, you have a brand, and you communicate it in everything you do. The more reason to remain vigilant in proactively and strategically managing that brand, no ...
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Branding & Content Disruption
Consumers today are in control and they are savvier than ever. To meet their increasingly demanding preferences, marketers have broken through the bonds of traditional advertising, and storytelling is now the thread that runs through everything ...
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3 Key Things Mika Brzezinski Taught Me
For the MSNBC host, it’s not just about building a personal brand — although that’s important too. Mika Brzezinski: She’s smart and got it all together, right? And yet, she’s the first to answer: “Everything is not what it seems” ...
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Crisis Communications: Tackle the Toughest Challenges
From scandals and misconduct to branding gaffes, crises are certainly dominating today’s news cycle and paving the way for major changes across nearly every industry. But what’s it like behind the scenes of a major public crisis? ...
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The Gender Divide
Why is there such inequity in the ranks? NYWICI hosted a panel on the differences in how men and women are viewed in the workplace and how women can earn an equal place at the table. The panelists agreed that ...
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Charting Your Course at Any Stage
Jacki Kelley, NYWICI President, hand-picked a group of women that represented women at every stage in their career and across all aspects of the communications industry for a panel discussion “Charting Your Course at Any Stage”. Here are few quotes ...
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Brainstorming Sessions That Work
Brainstorming is a numbers game, the more ideas you have to choose from, the better your chances are for success. So, just how do you go about generating lots of amazing concepts that meet and exceed your goals? ...
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