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• 4 Tips for Scoring Your Dream Gig

  It’s finally here. My new book, How’d You Score That Gig?: A Guide to the Coolest Careers and How to Get Them , has just been released! The book starts with a quiz that tells you your job personality – be it an adventurer, creator, data-head, entrepreneur, Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Career Change, Cool Careers, Discovering Your Passion, Entrepreneurship, Ownership & Initiative, Work

• Are You Really a Workaholic?

  Marketing guru Seth Godin has just set a bunch of us wondering if we really and truly are workaholics. I always thought I was. After all, I’m driven to work 50+ hours a week. It’s not enough just to be in the office, I actually have to be contributing Read More... Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Discovering Your Passion, Life Balance, Ownership & Initiative, Productivity, Work, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Being Good is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

  My good friend from college, Phil Saken, recently switched careers. How he pulled this off actually makes a pretty remarkable story, which I’ll be sharing in more detail in the next week or so. But anyway, he had decided that his job as an evening news Read More... Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Career Change, Discovering Your Passion, Ownership & Initiative, Work, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Authenticity at Work

  Rebecca Thorman over at Modite has a great post on prioritizing your authenticity . Says Rebecca: “ I get miffed when others claim to be environmentally concerned, and are blatantly not. Like the people who shop at Whole Foods, and think that gets them Read More... Posted Saturday, September 08, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Discovering Your Passion, Ownership & Initiative, Personal Marketing

• That Kid all the Parents Loved

  In high school, you probably had a friend that all the parents loved. You remember the type. Good student, athletic team star, community volunteer, kind to children and animals, etc, etc. This kid never got in trouble and always did everything that was Read More... Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Discovering Your Passion, Life Balance, Ownership & Initiative, Work, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Should You Be Among the Self-Employed?

  How do you know if you have what it takes to be among the successfully self-employed? Over at the Career Intensity blog , Dave Lorenzo lists the personality characteristics necessary for starting and sustaining your own business. He cites a willingness Read More... Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Discovering Your Passion, Entrepreneurship, Ownership & Initiative Attachment(s): http://www.cartoonwork.com/archive/workplace/selfemployed.gif

• More Than Just a Paycheck

  I’ve just completed a survey of approximately 500 currently employed 20-39 year-olds. The topic was dream careers, and even the pragmatist in me was stunned to learn that fully half of my respondents don’t like their jobs and don’t have friends who like Read More... Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Career Change, Discovering Your Passion, Ownership & Initiative Attachment(s): http://www.main.clara.net/jokes/jpegs/bad_jobs.jpg