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...

When the Holidays Meet Performance Reviews: How to Handle the Weight of the Season

It’s year-end again, and here we are steeped in year-end deadlines, holiday shopping, festivities planning, and…year-end performance review time at work. If you’ve ever wondered why year-end feels like an exhausting test on the home and work front, you are far from...

The Thanksgiving Tax: On the Real Cost of Women’s Holiday Labor

Every Thanksgiving and the ensuing holiday season, many, if not most, women step into an all-too familiar rhythm. It’s the rhythm of tireless planning, strategic coordinating, devoted caretaking, and organizing, smoothing, prepping, cooking, hosting, remembering, and...
Why you should keep a failure journal

Why you should keep a failure journal

I used to be a perfectionist. Which also means that anything having to do with failure, or mistakes, ranked very low in my list of favorites. As a matter of fact, failure was a no-no. It was not ok to fail, make mistakes or stray from being, or even worse, looking...

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Weekly News Roundup

Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to our weekly career, entrepreneurship, lifestyle and fashion news roundup! Think of it as your online watercooler/work gossip station/coffee break spot for now…Want to add anything to our list? Email us at corporate@thecorporatesister.com! Business Insider...

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How to write your Career Vision Statement

How to write your Career Vision Statement

“You can’t be what you can’t see”. You may have heard this phrase before, and so have I. Not only have I heard it, I have come to make it a powerful principle in my career and life in general. It’s also the reason why I started creating a Career Vision Statement for...

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7 Steps to Review Your Career at Year-End

7 Steps to Review Your Career at Year-End

At the end of each year, I inevitably ask myself: “Self, where do you stand?” While this question pops up as related to all areas of my life, it also inevitably gets asked of my work. Like most of us, the majority of my time is spent working. Reaching December 31st...

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Weekly News Roundup

Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to our weekly career, entrepreneurship, lifestyle and fashion news roundup! Think of it as your online watercooler/work gossip station/coffee break spot for now…Want to add anything to our list? Email us at corporate@thecorporatesister.com! Forbes shares the...

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Weekly News Roundup

Weekly News Roundup

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