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- How to Keep a Work Journal posted on January 26, 2015
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- The Best Career Podcasts to Listen to if You’re Starting a New Job posted on August 14, 2015
- Career Profile: Kaitlyn Sullivan, W Magazine posted on March 4, 2015
- How to Strengthen Remote Work Relationships posted on March 3, 2021
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- Career Profile: Emma Grede, Good American posted on June 5, 2019
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- Career Profile: Whitney Tingle and Danielle Duboise, Sakara Life posted on November 29, 2017
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- How To Tackle The First 3 Months Of Your Brand New Job posted on November 19, 2014
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- How to Make Friends in a New City posted on March 17, 2017
- How to Cope With Depression at Work posted on November 25, 2024
- The Fhitting Room Review posted on August 28, 2015
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- 8 Signs You’re in a Good Relationship With Yourself posted on April 14, 2017
- Career Profile: Julia Cheek, EverlyWell posted on July 25, 2018

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Career Profile: Barbara Whye, Intel Corporation
"Persistence and optimism will always yield successful outcomes."

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The best is yet to come.
5 Ways to Stop Complaining About Work
You might have valid concerns, but the last thing you want (if you also want a promotion) is to be seen as a constant complainer or the office gossip.
Career Profile: Ammara Yaqub, Ammara
"I think it is important to be resilient and persevere – achieving success out the gate is sometimes easier than sustaining that success over a long period of time and some failure is inevitable. It is important to view failure as a hiccup and not an endpoint."
Career Profile: Leesa Evans, Stylist and Costume Designer
"You are at your best when you trust your instincts and calmly believe in yourself."
How to Get a Job After College
It might seem like you need to have five years of experience and an Olympic medal to get an entry-level job, but you don't!
Career Profile: Lisa McCarthy and Wendy Leshgold, The Fast Forward Group
"You can do way more than you think you can and it’s usually the stuff that gets in your head that gets in the way."
Career Profile: Rachel Tipograph, MikMak
"Risk-taking is a luxury and if you're in a position to do it, seize it."
How to Survive a Toxic Workplace
You're toxic, I'm slipping under. (And getting a new job ASAP.)
Should You Take a Job Just for the Money?
Money can't buy you (a job you) love.
Career Profile: Sasha Benz, All My Friends Are Models and Cinq
“Every overnight success takes 10 years. This is something that I have found true more than anything. Everything takes time, guts and perseverance. No true success story comes without battle wounds."
How to Make Friends at Work
Let's be friends.
Career Profile: Lauren Berger, Intern Queen
"You miss 100% of the chances you don’t take. Just ask. What’s the worst that can happen?"
Career Profile: MaryBeth Pecha, Amber Hanson, and Kathryn Ekloff, Persist The Game
"I wish I would have known it's okay to take risks, experiment and fail. I think as women, we're so concerned with checking all the boxes, being prepared and not ruffling feathers. I'm generalizing, but this is how most of us were conditioned from an early age. I wish I would have been more curious to try new things, and that I would have gone easier on myself. I wish I had known it's better to prioritize progress over perfection."
Career Profile: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Allergan
"It’s a marathon, not a race. You will get opportunities to keep reinventing yourself professionally and you don’t need to do the same thing throughout your career. Change is okay, in fact, I strongly recommend it!"
Career Profile: Lori Wright, Microsoft
"What matters is how you pick yourself back up again after the setbacks and keep marching forward."