An etiquette guide for the driven, yet considerate, mentee — The power of mentorship is clear. People with mentors advance in their careers faster, perform better, and tend to be happier in their current jobs. Despite all the benefits of having a mentor, and even though 76% of people think mentors are important, only 37% have one (Source). Asking someone…

A guide to professional and effective negotiating — So you got the offer — Congratulations! You’re super excited, right? No? Oh, they totally low balled you? But you didn’t sign yet, right? Ok good, it’s not game over yet! So many of us have experienced this exact situation — where you land a dreamy role coupled with a…

Strategies to stay motivated while job searching in a pandemic — Finding a job can be really painful and demoralizing, especially in a pandemic. Finding the motivation to keep going, rejection after rejection, is hard when you are feeling undervalued and things are out of control. Although it may seem you have little control of the outcome of this job search…

Are you questioning if teaching is really for you? My journey out of teaching and into a career I love. — Learning objective: Teachers seeking alternative career paths will be able to let go of feeling “stuck” in a career they can’t see themselves doing forever. As we start a school new year amidst this pandemic, I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had over the past week that ended…

Tried and true tips to getting responses within 24 hours…even in a pandemic. — Ask any hiring manager, most applicants don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the “Tell us about yourself” section on the application. They either leave it blank, write too much or too little, come off uninterested or too eager, appear under-qualified or overqualified, and the list goes on…

100+ Prompts to connect remote teams all year long — For my past two jobs I’ve posted a question every week in my team chat and learned so much about my co-workers. Give it a try! :D Happy new year! List the first 3 words you see in this image. They are your reality for this upcoming year? If you…

Do you have a blog post idea sitting idle because you don’t know how to make it good enough or interesting enough? Let’s be honest, most topics have been written about before, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have a unique perspective about it! You just need to learn how…

5 relationship-focused strategies to promote a culture of collaboration — Being on a “not-so-collaborative team” can be really frustrating and even cause people to leave great companies. But why is it such a common problem? Are some people just less collaborative than others and we need to accept that? I believe that any group of people can become a collaboration…

5 tips to help you design more efficiently — Objective: Learn how to set up your design art-boards, files, and folders so that you can spend more time designing, instead of searching and rearranging. Being organized is often a secondary thought for designers. “I’ll organize my files once my project is done,” or, “it’s not a big deal to…