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Get a Raise Without Being a Jack Ass: 5 Strategies to Demonstrate Your Worth in the Office
Paying your dues is for suckers. Sitting back waiting on your boss to notice that you deserve a raise is a fruitless tactic. If you want a raise, you need to show what you’ve done to earn it. You need to build a solid case for why the company should pay you more....
Stop Worrying About These 3 Career Flaws
No career is perfect. I repeat. No. Career. Is. Perfect. Anyone who says that their career has gone exactly as they planned it with their college guidance counselor 20 years ago is lying to you. Through their teeth. My favorite quote of the moment, which I think...
Dating Strategies You Can’t Apply to Job Searching
Dating is a numbers game. To find your right match you need to wade through all the people that you don't like. Smoker? Pass. Doesn't like cats? Pass. Wants 7 kids? Hell NO! Though there are some undeniable similarities between dating and job searching, job...
Top 5 Resume Questions from the Toronto Jobs Career Fair
Resumes. They are tedious and time-consuming prospects. Ever the mystery, you're not sure what to include on them, what to leave out, how to say this, how to say that. I get it. And you're not alone. I was invited to review resumes for attendees at the...
How To Kill The Resume And Get The Interview
A lot of people who are in the job applications phase face the scourge of “perfection paralysis”. - "Before I can apply for a job, I need to have my resume fixed up." - "If my resume is fixed up it’s going to have my LinkedIn on there too, so I need to fix that up...
Make Stalking Part of Your Job Search Strategy
I'm a stalker. #AintNoShameinMyGame Who do I stalk? Potential clients. Potential business partners. People who make me totally fangirl. Why do I stalk? Because I want to ensure I'm as well-informed as possible about the people I want to hire or partner with me. Not...
5 Ways to Warm Up for a Sizzling September Job Search
Job searching in the summer tends to suck. Managers take vacations, which leads to drawn out or all out stoppages in decision making about new hires. Budgets can be run dry by this time, which means that some companies don't have the funds to actually add to their...
5 Reasons Your Career Is Nobody’s Business But Your Own
"Do you actually make any money?" Um, excuse me? This question didn't come from an inquisitive stranger, but a family member. Ever since I went full-bore entrepreneurial, my living-making has been neck-and-neck with my baby-having during conversation amongst my...
What Sriracha Can Teach You About Professional Branding
I have a bit of a Sriracha addiction. It started off slow. Just adding it to noodles or soups for a little extra kick. But then it increased to adding it to eggs, veggies and dips. I may have also put some on potato chips. Yeah. Full. Blown. Addict. I know I'm not...
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