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Tired of hearing about networking? Wish you could just push a button and get a job? That would be nice, but the reality is that you can never get enough networking tips. It’s the way you actually will find a job. Linkedin is your online networking vehicle–and any job seeker who does not have a…

Women I coach often come to me with visions of leaving Corporate America for a job with more meaning. They’re tired of helping companies sell cosmetics, cars or bonds and they want to find a way to “do well by doing good”. This is an admirable quest, but you have to do a lot of…

When you’re graduating from college everyone tells you to “network” to find your first job. For many young people networking is a foreign concept. Call the few people you worked for in summer jobs and internships? Write a note to friends of your parents? Sign up for Linkedin? Yes, these all fall under the networking…

Planning to “retire” and start your own business? Design your business to financially and mentally support your time off. That’s sage advice given by Jane Pollak, in her wonderful book, Sole Proprietor: 101 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur.  Though you may not want to give up working as you say good-bye to a long held career,…

Harvard Business Review blogger Whitney Johnson caught my attention when she tweeted her concept of “dating your dreams”. This makes sense to me because reinvention is so often making a dream happen—if you have the clarity and the stamina to bring all the fuzzy edges into focus. Dating your dreams—trying them out a little and living with…

If you’re looking to return to work after a long time home with family, your new best friend is Linkedin. Back in the day we all got chummy with various recruiting firms and waited for them to give us an interview schedule. Now it’s up to you to make things happen, and all the action…