Having a great resume is a no-brainer. Even if you currently have a job, it’s always a good idea to keep your resume fresh and up-to-date. When I was looking for my current job, I was still in graduate school and had access to my college’s career center (aka get your resume reviewed for free!). This ended being a huge advantage for me, because not only did I receive resume reviews, but I was also Continue Reading
The Real Reason Women Need to Side Hustle
This post is part of the #WomenRockMoney Movement, a large group of female personal finance bloggers who have come together to inspire more women to learn about money. If you have money questions, or want support for your financial goals, learn more about how you can join us at the movement homepage. I hope to see you there! You've probably heard by now about the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and Continue Reading
How to Leave Your Job on Good Terms
As I mentioned in our July Recap and August Goals post, I recently left my previous job in budget/finance for a new job in planning. Before I left, I was so nervous about telling my boss, coworkers, and everyone else that I obsessively read articles about "the best way to leave your job" and "how to leave your job on good terms". Yes, I Googled how to break up with my job. No, I didn't Google it Continue Reading
4 Specific Ways to Perfect Your Posture
Your parents were right: standing up straight really is important! If you’d like to live out your years hunched over, walking slowly, and in chronic pain, ignore this post at your peril. However, if you’d like to live with full vitality, it’s really important you use this post to your ultimate advantage. As a full-time officer work and part-time freelancer, I spend the majority of my day at my Continue Reading
1 Formula for Interview Success!
This is going to sound crazy, but I actually love practicing for interviews. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t love the actual interview process, but I love practicing for potential interviews. My organization offers self-improvement classes, and I love taking the ‘practice interview’, ‘create a new resume’, ‘find your purpose in life’ classes. Love them! Sometimes I think, even though I’ve heard Continue Reading
Top 3 Reasons You Should Join a Public Speaking Group
I can’t hide it anymore, so I’m going to come clean to you all… I love public speaking. Could you already tell from my title? As much as I am an introvert, I actually love public speaking. However, I wasn’t always that way… A Long Time Ago, in a City Not-So-Far-Away It was my sophomore year of high school, and my high school only offered a handful of electives. One was math-related, which was Continue Reading
Getting Lunch with Co-Workers
Do you go out to lunch with your co-workers, but need to stick to a budget? I understand the benefits of going out to eat lunch with co-workers: networking, keeping up with people you used to work with, and yes, keeping up with gossip (“industry news” ☺) It’s completely valuable. But (and you knew there was a ‘but’ coming!) sometimes it feels like a little too much. Knowing how important Continue Reading
Networking for Introverts
Three Tips for Networking Success Networking: for many people, the bane of their existence. This is even more pronounced for introverts like myself. Even if your job mostly involves working behind a computer, you probably had to do some networking, at the very least in the form of the interview, to get your job. Especially nowadays, when getting a job partially lies on who you know, Continue Reading
Embrace Free Work Perks!
My organization offers a free fitness incentive program that, if you walk 5,000 steps 3 times a week, tracked by a provided pedometer, you’re entered into a monthly prize drawing for $50 gift cards to either a local grocery store chain or a sporting goods store. On top of that, work also offers gift cards in various, progressive amounts for each 100,0000, 500,000 and one million steps you walk. Continue Reading