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May 03, 2006 01:12 AM EDT --
Dear Mr. Smith,
I want to applaud you on the success of XYZ Corporation, and the winning team you've assembled. I had the pleasure of meeting with several of your leaders - Jane Jones and Carl Peterson . . .
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April 24, 2006 11:15 PM EDT --
I was in the car with my five-year-old and my seven-year-old. The very left-brain-dominant seven-year-old asked, "Are there actually vehicles that can travel into the future?" I thought for a . . .
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April 23, 2006 07:59 PM EDT --
I come from one of those large (eight kids) 50's and 60's Irish Catholic families. My mom worked before she got married and went back to work full-time when I was in fourth grade. She is smart . . .
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April 23, 2006 02:27 PM EDT --
If you are job-seeking, you need to join LinkedIn, an essential job-search tool. If you're not on a job search but you're into online networking; or want to acquire new partners or clients; or . . .
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February 15, 2006 12:48 AM EST --
It's amazing how many job-seekers don't know about the essential post-interview thank you letter. When companies have interviewed several talented candidates, the thank-you letter is an easy way . . .
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February 09, 2006 11:50 AM EST --
Career experts always say, "Don't send your resume to the Human Resources department, where it will get lost in the shuffle - send it to an individual person in the company." Well, great . . .
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February 07, 2006 08:26 PM EST --
Office work is great for intellectual stimulation, but terrible for your mental health - you're so intensely focused on your work for hours at a time, you can really drive yourself crazy. Sometimes, . . .
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February 07, 2006 03:19 PM EST --
My roommate quit school, and left. I was lonely - she was my only friend in school. We played The Cars and Bad Company and the J. Geils Band and Joe Jackson at loud decibel levels. We got two kittens, . . .
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February 07, 2006 01:37 PM EST --
We worked in a company that was like a halfway house: halfway between hanging out and having a real job. Everyone in the place was in his or twenties, except for a few older ladies from the neighborhood . . .
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February 07, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
If you saw my column titled "Amazing We Can Dress Ourselves" then you know that I take major exception to the idea that women have to change how they act in order to be effective in business. . . .
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February 07, 2006 01:09 AM EST --
The more I think about it, and the more I talk to working moms across the U.S., the more committed I become to the idea that much of our difficulty in the workplace can be attributed to wretchedly poor . . .
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February 07, 2006 01:04 AM EST --
I go to the RedShirt store the other night with my seven-year-old and my ten-year-old, and it was freezing. The store was crowded, and so was the parking lot, so we parked way off in the North 40. We . . .
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February 06, 2006 10:48 PM EST --
It has happened to everyone at some point: you're in a job interview, and it's going well, and the interviewer suddenly asks you, "So, what questions can I answer for you?" And you sit . . .
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February 04, 2006 01:16 PM EST --
It's a tough notion for job-seekers to get their heads around, but the essence of negotiation is choice.
If you don't have options, you can't negotiate - you just can't. If you have no . . .
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February 03, 2006 02:42 AM EST --
It's a very funny thing, a job interview - especially if you make it past HR, and you're face-to-face with your next prospective manager. There is no one more important in your job satisfaction . . .
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February 02, 2006 01:48 PM EST --
If you use the networking site LinkedIn (and if you're job-hunting, you should be using it!) you are doubtless tired of the same old boring, boilerplate LinkedIn invitations. Just for fun, I wrote . . .
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February 02, 2006 01:44 PM EST --
Okay, we got it - a lot of babies were born in the decade after World War II ended. Here's what I don't understand: all these millions of babies were born, and then the birth rate dropped; and . . .
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January 25, 2006 11:50 PM EST --
It's happening all over: A woman is laid off while she's pregnant and finds herself job-hunting as her due date approaches. Another woman's organization tanks, and she finds herself out of . . .
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January 25, 2006 11:47 PM EST --
Women have been in the white-collar workforce for a generation, but plenty of things about them still puzzle many a male manager. As an HR leader and working women for a generation myself, I've compiled . . .
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January 21, 2006 01:06 AM EST --
I was in the car with my five-year-old and my seven-year-old. The very left-brain-dominant seven-year-old asked, "Are there actually vehicles that can travel into the future?" I thought for a . . .
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Liz Ryan
Boulder, CO
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