How to Make Small Career Investments that Compound After the Summer 

Every summer, many of us as working women and moms look forward to a slower pace of life: more family time, vacations, a well-deserved break,  and maybe even catching up on postponed projects and finding more time to invest in our careers… And right as the...

Praise or Pay: How to Turn Appreciation and Invisible Labor into Pay as a Working Mom

Every year on Mother's Day, organizations show their appreciation for working mothers with symbols of gratitude—thank-you cards, flowers, appreciation emails. While these are heartwarming and certainly welcome, they rarely translate into actual benefits at work....

Why Hard Work Is Not Enough: What Women Should Know About Meritocratic Systems (and How to Beat Them)

As a working woman, the idea of meritocracy may have been introduced earlier on in life to you. From popular advice to widely accepted success principles, merit-based guidance may have followed you all throughout your education and career.  “Work hard. Be...

Are You Being Financially Discounted at Work? How to Recognize It, and Correct It

Have you ever walked out of a compensation conversation feeling like something didn’t quite add up?Not because you underperformed.Not because you lacked results.But because the offer felt… cautious. Conservative. Tempered.As if someone quietly adjusted the forecast on...

New Year, New Career? Why Women’s Careers Don’t Reset in January (and What to Do About It)

New year, new career? Or is it? The start of the year is supposed to feel like a career reset. New goals. New momentum. New clarity about where you’re headed professionally. And the hope that last year is behind you and this one will be better, or at least...
Corporate Shoe Talk: Louboutin “Nudes” for All Skin Tones

Corporate Shoe Talk: Louboutin “Nudes” for All Skin Tones

As you are readying your Christmas list (mine's BEEN ready!), why not combine your corporate needs with your ummm....regular fashion agenda? And what better than a nude pump to address both your corporate and social wardrobe needs...So check out the new line of...

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It’s the Week-End, Where Is Your Blackberry?

It’s the Week-End, Where Is Your Blackberry?

It's the week-end, you have a ton of things to do, items to mark off your to-do list, maybe a family to feed, a Thanksgiving meal to plan, and you still can't get a hold of your hairdresser (or her calendar for that matter)...In the midst of all the to-dos,...

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Saturday Shopping: Week-End Deals

Saturday Shopping: Week-End Deals

It' the week-end, time to fit in some shopping whether you decide to stop by the mall or log in to your computer...here are the week-end deals you can enjoy: Ann Taylor is offering 40% off your full purchase price online, and 50% off all sale items! LOFT is also...

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Sister Talk: Does Working Week-ends Help Advance Your Career?

Sister Talk: Does Working Week-ends Help Advance Your Career?

So it's Friday, you are buried under boat loads of work, and everything is due like...yesterday!Your boss keeps putting on the pressure, and you're wondering how you can turn in all these projects anytime before next year this time...If you're in the financial or...

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Mastering the Art of Casual Fridays

Mastering the Art of Casual Fridays

So it's Friday, casual Friday to be more exact...And as exciting as the prospect of not having to wear your traditional corporate gear is, I've come to find that there are rules to casual Friday that can make all the difference between still looking professionally...

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THIS May Just Be Your Worst Career Sin…

THIS May Just Be Your Worst Career Sin…

Many are the career sins that we all commit on an almost daily basis. From overt arrogance to destructive ruthlessness, to excessive pride and lashed out anger on the job, there are definitely more than 7 career sins out there... Yet for corporate sisters, and all...

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Why You Need a Career Plan

Why You Need a Career Plan

One question that you'll often hear at interviews, and which frankly should be the topic of entire college courses, is the following:" Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?" Basic translation for corporate sisters like you and I: You need a plan! The...

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Are You In or Out of the Corporate Group?

Are You In or Out of the Corporate Group?

The longer your journey in the corporate world, the more you'll realize that it is strikingly similar to high school. Unless you're in one of the most structurally evolved corporate structures known to Mankind (which I have yet to witness the existence of), you've...

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