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
It’s Beginning to Feel a Lot Like…COVER LETTER SEASON: 3 Rules for Writing an Effective Cover Letter (Upcoming College Grads Take Note) Some people herald spring with daffodils and violets. Here in the Wow World, spring is the time of year college graduates nationwide send me their cover letters for review. Based… Read More
“Neutral” is Anything But As anyone knows who’s driven a standard car, neutral is the still center of the whirling cosmos of the gear shift—the place from which you transfer from first to third,… Read More