5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!! I’m imagining that many of you who read this headline thought my auto-send was terribly broken—that you were mistakenly getting my New Year’s missive on the 4th of July. Think… Read More
Redundancy Alert (Or ‘One More Reason Why Adele’s Song “Someone Like You” Drives Me Mad’) Just for fun (Remember, we all have different ways of making our own fun.) I keep a list on my iPhone of all the redundancies I bump into: in conversation,… Read More
How to Handle that (Hideous) ‘Softball’ Question In my line of work, a softball question is anything that’s so big you don’t know what to swing at. (In your day-to-day life, it might sound something like, “Read… Read More
5 Steps to Cleaning up your Online Identity By Ritika Trikha, CareerBliss Writer on June 5, 2012 Did you know that every time you tweet the deets or update your status on Facebook your brain gives you a… Read More
Don’t Hang Your Dirty Laundry Online As millions of new college graduates enter the job market, a few words about why you don’t want your dirty laundry hanging online, what to remove, and what to keep.… Read More
The Importance of Your “Listening” Face (and How to Ensure an Excellent One) I recently spent a (wonderful!) few days in Lansing, Michigan, doing a day long Wow Workshop.* Among the many concepts we covered was the importance of having an appropriate “listening”… Read More
Tweet Wisely or Forever Hold Your Peace As some of you know, I was an avid tweeter until about a year ago when an…incident…. occurred on my account. (Have you ever noticed how the Metropolitan Transit Authority-types… Read More
Let it Grow, Let it Grow, Let it Grow (Year Two) As (very few of) you likely remember, I wrote a piece last year on the hazards of growing grass, and the business takeaways I experienced as a result of indulging… Read More
Appropriate Attire for All Occasions What to Wear to Wow: I recently did another set of videos for eHow, this time the on “Appropriate Attire for All Occasions” What kind of occasions did I cover?… Read More
How Giving the “Because” Moves Others to Action: Last week I had the great privilege of speaking at a breakfast hosted by the Women’s Roundtable for recent graduates of N.E.W– Nontraditional Employment for Women— and 12 potential employers.… Read More