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A transformative summer

Seth Godin Blog

Transitions are built around the seasons, and the headlong rush to a career is still sometimes interrupted by months where there’s a chance to reset and to grow. Start a simple business–offer neighbors the chance to turn their clutter into cash by organizing a weekly blockwide tag sale, or open a store on eBay.

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Your Greatest Resource is a Positive Attitude

Rick Conlow

You cannot put a price tag on these parts of the body. In addition, you have unlimited potential and ability to succeed in your career. For example, consider these two positive attitudes worth developing: expect the best of yourself and others, and believe you cannot fail! How about $1 million for your brain? Is it your lungs?

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Do Independent Consultants Still Need Résumés?

Successful Independent Consulting

With LinkedIn and personal websites widely used to promote careers, the idea of independent management consultants having a printable résumé may seem old-fashioned. Developed implementation plan for 2-year program to align and simplify 65 HR policies and 3 systems across 21 domestic sites, impacting over 2,500 employees.

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Setting Up a Foundation for Consulting Success

Successful Independent Consulting

If you’re serious about your career as an independent consultant, you’ll want to distinguish yourself from someone who is simply between “real jobs.” Tracking your time by category (for example, client work, business development, administration, networking, commuting) will help you see how you spend your time.

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4 Conversations Every Overwhelmed Working Parent Should Have

Harvard Business

Working parents sometimes struggle with the feeling that they are either letting down their family or not meeting their career goals. Sit down with your boss and teammates and let them know of your passion for your career and your work-related goals, and then unapologetically share how your family commitments relate to these priorities.

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Mission-Driven Careers

The Nonprofit Consultant

Those of us who've made a career of the nonprofit sector do it as part of our personal mission. Jobs for Change, a part of change.org , is looking to inspire and recruit the next generation of nonprofit leaders - those looking for a mission-driven career. Tags: careers Nonprofit jobs mission.

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We Need a Better Way to Visualize People’s Skills

Harvard Business

GitHub is a social networking site for web developers to collaborate on open-source code management. It’s a way for developers to display their revisions of public repositories of code. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. And simply collecting data is not enough – to be used, data has to be presented usefully.

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