A friend who is in the Communications department at the American Psychological Association kindly provided me with the just-released results of their Stress in America survey, broken down by generations.  As soon as I read it, I was itching to share the key findings with you:    The Stress in America survey was conducted online ...

My 30/20 Vision radio show co-host, Christine Hassler, has just released a new book for twenty-somethings called 20 Something Manifesto: Quarterlifers Speak Out about Who They Are, What They Want, and How to Get It.   Christine began her post-college life as a high-powered Hollywood agent, and after a series of personal and professional ...

I am really excited to share the debut of the new 30/20 Podcast series - especially for the 20-something woman who wishes she had a couple of big sisters to clue her in on the ins and outs of life after college. The series will feature me and my fellow authors and pals Christine Hassler (20-Something, 20-Everything), and Lindsey Pollak (From ...

This week, I’m on a speaking tour at several corporations in the U.S. and abroad, training twenty-somethings and their managers on what recent college grads need to do in order to succeed in today’s business climate.  As a result of meeting hundreds of twenty-somethings over the course of the last few years and reading all of the research I ...

The following is an e-mail that came my way this week.  Dear Alexandra: I graduated from college last year, so I’m still at the bottom of the totem pole at my company.  I have four senior colleagues who delegate work to me, and they have no problem doing so…all day long.  Trouble is, there aren’t enough hours in the day to do ...

[ImageAttachment] A topic that’s been coming up a lot in my discussions with twenty and thirty-something employees is empowerment.  Today’s younger workers want to come into a job and have the autonomy to take hold of projects and run with them self-sufficiently.  However, their baby boomer managers, more often than not, hold them back ...

[ImageAttachment]   This week, my friend Lisa Haneberg at Management Craft had a great post on ways to inspire others.  Here are some of the highlights:   Take a stand. Share your perspective and be open.  The most inspiring leaders have a strong vision for how things ought to be. Listen more, speak less.  Show ...

In light of my post last week about the Millennial Generation, I received a few cranky e-mails grumbling that this generation expects the world to be handed to them on a silver platter, and that they’re coming into the workplace as confident know-it-alls.  Now, as a twenty-something career consultant, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard ...