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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Leadership Lessons From Leading Ladies

The Women’s Leadership Exchange (WLF) is hosting its Northern California Leadership Conference on tomorrow (Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007) at the Santa Clara Convention Center.  WLF is a premier professional association for highly successful female executives and entrepreneurs.  The organization specifically targets women who run or own established nonprofit/for-profit businesses (most with revenues of $750k+) and [...]

October Issue of CareerCasts Newsletter Now Available

The October issue of CareerCasts, Careersthatdontsuck.com’s premier monthly career and job management newsletter for career changers, experienced professionals, new job market entrants, returning and displaced workers, and anyone else and anyone else who wants a career that doesn’t suck, is now available for download.

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Sustainable Brands ‘07 - Sept. 26-28, 2007

Smart. Sustainable. Brands.  That’s the focus of Sustainable Brands ‘07, a new conference focused on building your company’s environmental and social value proposition.  Conference session topics include:

Eco-strategy to Build Competitive Advantage
Green Branding 2.0
Green Marketing in a Web 2.0

The conference is sponsored by Fast Company, 3M, Sun Microsystems, PRNews and other organizations.  The event will be [...]

Essence Presents “Women Who Are Shaping The World” - Oct. 5, 2007

Essence magazine, the leading magazine for African-American women, presents its annual leadership conference for women on Friday, October 5, 2007 at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York City.  The conference theme is “Women Who Are Shaping the World”.  The conference will feature workshops and seminars led by successful women (and a few men) from [...]

The World Is Your Job Market: 5 Tips for Finding A Great Job Abroad

This week I’m blogging with the Brits. I’m in London working on an HR module I’ve been contracted to write on HR’s role in mergers and acquisitions (Don’t ask. It’s a masterpiece of minimalism right now). No, I didn’t need to travel all the way to London to write it, but I love [...]

Top 25 Career Launch Pads

BusinessWeek’s just released its list of the 50 best companies to launch a career. The rankings are based on three criteria: (1) Favorites of career services directors at U.S. colleges, (2) a survey of employers on their hiring, pay, benefits and training programs, and (3) a 2007 survey of 44,000 undergrads asked to identify [...]

An Answer to the Question: Take the First Good Offer or Wait for the Best?

I posted this question over the weekend both as a way of working out a situation in my own mind, and hopefully, as a way to get you thinking about what you might do.
I was recently offered a cool position as a salaried blog editor for a great blog network. I was very excited [...]