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Enough Already: Why Now is the Perfect Time to Pursue Your Career Dream

By Elizabeth Freedman · 12 years ago

At some point you just have to make the call, stop hemming and hawing and decide that it’s time. At some point you have to stop getting ready to get ready to make the career ...

Uncomplicated Leadership: Make it Easier to Get the Job Done

By Elizabeth Freedman · 12 years ago

Unfortunately, making things complicated is easy to do. Take something pretty straightforward, like weight loss. I don’t know about you, but if you gave me a donut for every time someone said, "All you have ...

How to Complete Your Own Self-assessment at Work

By Elizabeth Freedman · 12 years ago

It’s review time at the office and your boss has asked you to complete a self-assessment – those forms that ask you to rate yourself on your own work performance. Here’s where you’re going to ...

Job Advice: How to Handle the Exit Interview

By Elizabeth Freedman · 12 years ago

Planning to leave the office? Jump ship? Head on to greener pastures? Happens all the time. Here’s what doesn’t happen all the time: The Graceful Exit. When you consider the various ways you’ll say goodbye ...

Action, Not Confidence, Is What Counts For Career (and weight loss) Success

By Elizabeth Freedman · 13 years ago

If you attend my Weight Watchers meetings on a regular basis, you know that I love talking about mindset. Here’s my point of view: We can talk about points, tracking, exercise, or eating smaller portions, ...

Career Advice: Less Computer, More Face Time

By Elizabeth Freedman · 13 years ago

Here’s a math problem for you: Take a look at your life over the past days, weeks, or months, and compare how much you spent in front of a screen (including phone, computer, TV), with ...

Bad Career Habits

By Elizabeth Freedman · 13 years ago

Fix your bad career habits If 2010 is going to be your year, then get serious about fixing bad career and workplace habits that are dragging you down. Here are a few to think about: ...

How to Network When You Hate to Network

By Elizabeth Freedman · 14 years ago

Whether you’re starting out in a career or transitioning into a new endeavor, one truth remains: If you think that hard work alone will move you up the company ladder, think again. It’s relationships –the ...

Secrets of Internship Success

By Elizabeth Freedman · 14 years ago

Congratulations! You’re in, you did it – after all that hard work, the 42 rewrites of your resume, the hours preparing for interviews – you landed your internship. Now, before we get too carried away ...

Down with Networking!

By Elizabeth Freedman · 14 years ago

Networking is probably one of the toughest and most important aspects of the job search..not to mention our careers and overall professional development. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most hated, misunderstood and, consequently, poorly ...

The "F" Word: Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Failure

By Elizabeth Freedman · 14 years ago

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there." -- Edwin Louis Here’s a recent conversation I had with a prospect I had been wooing for months: "You know, Liz, we’ve ...