Category Archives: Career
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10 Things to Quit Putting on Your Resume
Posted by Andrea Venezio in CareerThis guest post was written by my long term friend, who happens to be an Executive Recruiter, Andrea Venezio. I asked Andrea to write these pointers because I’ve seen her first hand with resumes and she pointed out some things I had no idea that recruiters hated. So without further adieu… directly from a recruiter here [...]
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10 Things To Keep At Your Desk To Stay Productive
Posted by Paul Balcerak in CareerThis guest post was written by Paul Balcerak, a web producer for KIRO 7 Eyewitness News in Seattle where he produces web content and manages social media. He blogs about journalism and new media on his website, paulbalcerak.com. First thing’s first: Any desk I’ve ever worked at has looked like a complete disaster. That’s all [...]
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10 Tips For Life On The Road
Posted by Ben Smithee in CareerThis guest post was written by my friend Ben Smithee, who finds himself traveling frequently for work (I am convinced he travels as many miles as airline pilots). Ben, Managing Partner at Spych Research, quite possibly has more energy than any person I have ever met. I’ve had the honor of speaking at a few [...]
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10 Ways to Create Karma at Work
Posted by Vickie Elmer in CareerThis guest post is a continuation of a month long series of top 10 lists here on genpink of varying topics. This post was written by Vickie Elmer, a freelance writer whom I meet through Brazen Careerist. While putting together this series and brainstorming topic ideas Vickie sent me an email saying that she has [...]
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10 Reasons Why You Don’t Need a New Job
Posted by Penelope Trunk in CareerThis is the 15th post in December’s Top Tens in 2010 Series. This guest post was written by Penelope Trunk, CEO of Brazen Careerist, and the leader of an entire army of career rocketeers. Penelope is on her own list of badass career women, and I know that I’m not the only gen yer who can [...]
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Ten Ways to Rock Being Location Independent
Posted by Ryan Paugh in CareerThis is the 13th post in December’s Top Tens in 2010 Series. This guest post was written by my long term online and offline friend Ryan Paugh. Ryan is one of those people that I can say “he’s just as awesome offline as he is online.” Ryan is a co-founder of an ever-growing network of career [...]
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Top 10 Cold Hard Truths About Entrepreneurship
Posted by David Stehle in CareerThis is the 7th post in December’s Top Tens in 2010 Series. This guest post was written by David Stehle, a Network Security Consultant (Founder and CEO) by day. By night, David is active in the 20sb (20something bloggers) community and blogs at The Rest Is Still Unwritten. So you want to take the plunge! Say [...]
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If you can’t say something nice…
Posted by Elysa Rice in Career, FeaturedWe’ve all heard it, probably from our mothers… “if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all.” This statement seems to be haunting me lately. I’ve been analyzing whether or not this statement is true for those of us who blog, or speak in public, or write books. So here’s my question — [...]
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Recommend Someone… I dare you
Posted by Elysa Rice in Advice, CareerThis week, among the many projects and deadlines, we were asked to fill out anonymous peer reviews of select coworkers. Before I knew who I was assigned to review I was very resistant to the idea. My position in the company is quite unique, in that there are several departments and teams of people and [...]
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TeuxDeux: a simple, designy, to-do app
Posted by Elysa Rice in CareerFor all my list loving friends … TeuxDeux Demo from TeuxDeux on Vimeo. How do you manage your to-dos? Thinking about, or already signed up for TeuxDeux? Author: Elysa Rice Blonde Computer Nerd. Texas Girl (Dallas to be exact). Community Manager for Bizzy. Social Media Club of Dallas Leadership. Lover of all things pink. Mac [...]
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PR for Gen Y Entrepreneurs
Posted by Matt Wilson in Career, Gen-Ythe following guest post was written by Matt Wilson of Under 30 CEO With the hype of Twitter everyone wants to know–how do I use this tool to successfully grow my business? The answer is public relations. As described by Wikipedia “Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the flow of information between an [...]
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The Recession Attitude
Posted by Elysa Rice in Career, InspirationI recently started following Tom Ziglar, son of Zig Ziglar, and I thought his post about job attitudes is certainly worth referencing. Walking away from the counter I started to think. In this tough economy does any company have to employ somebody with a lousy attitude? I think not! As customers we should be getting [...]
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Do you demi-task?
Posted by Elysa Rice in Career, FeaturedI learned a new word today: demi-task Jody Gilbert at TechRepublic asks, “Do you listen 100 percent of the time or are you usually mentally engaged in several things at once?”. In her article 10 great ideas from five great bosses Jody states: Top dogs know that nobody can multitask effectively over the long haul. [...]
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Hands Down: Women Are Better Managers
Posted by Elysa Rice in Career, WomenCarol Smith, senior vice president and chief brand officer for the Elle Group, the media company is quoted in the New York Times saying "Hands down women are better [managers]. There’s no contest." She goes on to say "In my experience, female bosses tend to be better managers, better advisers, mentors, rational thinkers. Men love [...]
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Ten Words or Less: Best Money & Career Advice
Posted by Elysa Rice in Career, FinancesI am an information junkie, or as my mom calls it "a high information sort". One of my favorite things about microblogging (aka twitter/tumblr/etc) is the rapid of fire of information. I’ve learned many interesting tidbits in 140 characters or less. Browsing through my google reader (actually feedly) the headline The Best Career Advice, in [...]
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In case you missed it: Gen Y Career Edition
Posted by Elysa Rice in CareerI remember when I first started blogging a few years ago I felt like the internet was full of professional blogs and mommy bloggers. The hunt to find other 20 something bloggers was quite an adventure. I found a few on BlogHer and a few on MyBlogLog but for the most part there wasn’t an [...]
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Economic Mess: Are we better off than our parents?
Posted by Elysa Rice in Career, Featured, Gen-YI was reading a blog post (A New Generation Gap) in which Mike Neiss, a baby boomer, discusses his perspective of how the boomer generation "failed to build a solid foundation for those who will follow us. We have made a mess. We are not the victims of changing economic conditions, we created them." He [...]
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Gen Y: Waking Up Unemployed?
Posted by Elysa Rice in Career, Featured, Gen-YUnemployment – the "u-word" as I’m seeing it referred to in the headlines of my google reader is touching the lives of several Gen Yers in my social sphere. Last week we had a dinner with all of my graphic design friends and one of the girls at dinner told us not only was she laid off but her whole company was closing down. So the question to ask here is what’s a girl to do?
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Internet Schizophrenia
Posted by Elysa Rice in Career, Featured, Social NetworkI’ve been having a debate for a while about personal vs professional internet presence. The question has been whether to combine my professional internet self with my personal or to create a two separate “worlds” if you will. Let’s explain: Facebook: Do I want someone I meet at a networking event to be friends with [...]
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Managing To-Dos 3 Tiered
Posted by Elysa Rice in Career, TechnologyI have a 3 tiered system for managing my to-dos. I thought I’d share my system with you guys today and see how you manage your to-do list. First of all I’ll say for the most part I am a digital person in most areas of my life so I do have 2 forms of [...]
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