4 Ways to Manage Your Career When You’re NOT Looking for a Job

By Tiffany Hardy | BlueSteps

The level of responsibility that goes hand in hand with an executive role can leave little time to think about personal career management. And when your greatest career advances have been thanks to your ability to …

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How to Answer “Tell Me About a Time You Went Above and Beyond” in Your Next Job Interview

By Regina Borsellino

The interview question “Tell me about a time you went above and beyond” can be a golden opportunity for you as a candidate—as long as you prepare ahead of time. At best, this classic behavioral question is …

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Why Empathetic Listening Is Crucial for Your Career—and How to Do It Well

By Ximena Vengoechea | The Muse

When it comes to improving communication in the workplace, you may have learned how to give better presentations, more clearly articulate your ideas, and even influence others through better pitches, decks, and speeches. But you …

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Want People to Accept Your LinkedIn Requests? Use These 10 Templates

By Aja Frost | The Muse

This morning, when I logged into LinkedIn, I had nine connection requests waiting for me. Some were from recruiters, some were from total strangers, some were from fellow writers, and some were from old classmates—but …

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Trying to Find the Right Career and Job for You? Use This Hierarchy of Needs Approach

By Melody J. Wilding | The Muse

Finding a good fit between your personality and your career happens when there’s synchronicity between your tasks, the environment you’re in, and the value you both provide and receive from your responsibilities.

Research backs …

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Do You Need to Put Your Address on Your Resume?

By Regina Borsellino | The Muse

When you’re listing your contact information in the header of your resume, you may assume your street address is part of that. And for a long time you would’ve been right. But in our increasingly …

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How to Write a Winning Subject Line for Your Resume Email

By Stav Ziv | The Muse

You’ve poured some sweat into that resume (hopefully no tears). It’s tailored top to bottom, chock full of action verbs, and bursting with powerful bullet points, and you finally feel like it’s polished and ready …

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14 Tips for Your Next Virtual Presentation

By Nikki Carter | The Muse

As society gradually shifts back to “normal” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic—with some segments of the population resuming in-office work—there’s still no question that remote work is going to be more prevalent than …

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Negotiating Salary? Here’s A Simple Yet Powerful Trick, According To A New Study

By Monica Torres | HuffPost | April 27, 2021

Silence is one of the most simple yet most powerful negotiation tools, but it’s traditionally positioned as an intimidation tactic that prompts a person to speak to their own disadvantage.

New research published …

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Business Networking Events (Series Part 3)

By Asha Aravindakshan, SFMBA ‘17

At this point in the series, you have your personal brand ready: you’ve established your brand (covered in Part 1 of the series), you strengthened your LinkedIn Profile, and you created your elevator pitch (see

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