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A Career Coach’s Guide to Boosting Your Success as a Freelancer

By 2020, freelancers will make up more than 40% of the U.S. workforce, according to the Intuit 2020 Report. That’s more than…

7 Key Leadership Strategies for Managing Conflict on Your Team

In a perfect world, teams are cohesive units. Everyone gets along and supports one another. Reality paints a different picture —…

Building Self-Confidence: 10 Life-Changing Strategies

SELF-CONFIDENCE IS LIKE A MAGNET. IT ATTRACTS NOT ONLY OTHER PEOPLE, BUT MYRIAD OPPORTUNITIES. Job candidates who exude self-confidence are…

Career Coach Insights: Should You Make the Move to a Startup?

The idea of working for a startup can be very appealing — and so can the reality if you approach…

Conduct Your Own Career Assessment: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself

Just as taking your car in for routine inspection helps maintain its best performance, one of the best ways to…

5 Ways to Cultivate Your Student’s Emotional Intelligence

Today’s job market is competitive; every advantage counts. While students tend to expend considerable resources honing their industry-specific skills with…

Stop Blaming Yourself — and Others

You burned last night’s casserole; you blame yourself for being such a lousy cook. You didn’t make it to the…

How to Avoid the Top 9 Interview Blunders

Looking for a job? Welcome to the club — and it’s a competitive one. The average corporate job opening attracts…

Leadership Lessons From an Improv Instructor

Great leaders never stop learning. Sometimes, that learning happens in unconventional settings. Improv, a theatrical technique in which actors create…

Barbara’s Career Coaching Story

From drifting to directed Situation Barbara was a “career drifter.” She had graduated with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and…

7 Strategies for Dealing with Loneliness

While introverts and extroverts seem light years apart in terms of their preference for spending time with people, the truth…

Bullying at Work: 5 Strategies to Fight Back

Despite the fact we would have liked to leave them behind on the playground or high school hallways, bullying doesn’t…

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