career planning

Career Advice

Discover your passion: Tips on finding your dream job

It’s time to start doing something you love. Work really isn’t work if you love it, right? We've got tips on how to find and land...

Career & Money How-tos

How to create an award-winning resume

A potential employer’s first impression of you is your resume. Make sure yours has them wanting to hire you before they even meet you.

Parenting Advice & Columns

Our girls need guidance

Telling your daughter she can do whatever she wants with her life might seem like the kind of encouragement she needs. But a new...

Budgeting & Saving

Working Mom 3.0: Holiday money matters

When you’re a work at home mom, juggling career and family obligations during the holidays, every penny counts — so why not leverage...

Career Advice

How to handle a job you hate

I hate my job: Three steps to help you get through a miserable employment. 


Career Advice

5 Ways to improve your resume

Sending out resumes and not getting any job offers? Maybe it's not you -- it could be your resume that's stopping employers from...

Career Advice

6 Signs it's time for a new job

Not every job is meant to last forever – even if you thought it was the perfect job for you. Like relationships, it can take a while...

Career Advice

Don't make these workplace mistakes

Getting a job is one thing, but if you want to keep your job, you should keep in mind this advice on what to never, ever do at the...

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Resume tips for the stay-at-home mom

Planning to re-enter the workforce after staying home with your kids? The first step is to update your resume.While being a...

Career Advice

The working girl's guide to being confident

Not all women are alike, but some of us aren’t the best at asserting ourselves at work. We don't say no, we don’t ask for raises and...

Career Advice

How personality shapes a career

There are two kinds of self-knowledge that are important in finding the right career path: Assessing your interests, skills, and...

Career Advice

Working Mom 3.0: Little ideas that can

Working Mom 3.0 chronicles the journey women are taking to reinvent what it means to be a “working mom.” In this installment,...

Career Advice

Are you ready to own a business?

Women lean towards businesses that help people, but a giving heart and spirit of support can sometimes prevent a business from being...

Tweens, Teens & College

Take your child to work day

Since 1993, millions of Americans have participated in the annual Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work® day. A day at work will help...

Career Advice

How to be happily employed in a tough economy

Times are tough -- that’s what I keep hearing. However, in my line of work, business is booming and I am quite happily living the...

Career Advice

3 Ways to take control of your career

Career control is not an illusion. It just takes counter-intuitive strategies that will give you a career vision and build your...

Career Advice

Top 5 tips for women entrepreneurs

Will 2011 be the year you begin your business? With a new year upon us, it’s a perfect opportunity to focus on your goals and turn...

Career Advice

Hot careers for 2011 and beyond

This is a tough time to find a job. The Great Recession is officially over, but employers are still reluctant to hire. Instead of...

New Year - Your Family

7 Tricks for balancing work and family

Do you feel like your work time versus family time ration is all out of whack? Drop the guilt and embrace these 7 tricks for...

Career Advice

Career women: Mentor your way to success

Even though the economy has recently shown small signs of improvement, it still appears that a full, global economic recovery will...

Career Advice

Work trend for women: Tempreneurs

With the current unemployment rate nearing 10 percent and the economy still on shaky ground, more women are becoming "tempreneurs"...