As I was working on Success for Hire, I had the good fortune to meet an excellent blogger and radio show host, the Recruiting Animal.  Animal’s got one of the most hilariously combative shows you’ll ever listen to, and I had a great time as a guest earlier this month.  Anyway, Animal flagged a very interesting article from the MIT Sloan ...

When you get to a certain point in your career, the tendency is to think you’re supposed to be an expert in everything pertaining to your field.  After all, you have years of experience under your belt, you keep up on new developments well enough, and you’re the one people are always asking for advice.    Regardless of your ...

A new episode of the 30/20 Vision Radio Show will air live on January 22, 2008 at BlogTalkRadio at 8PM ET.  As I reminder, I host this monthly radio show with my fellow authors Christine Hassler (20-Something, 20-Everything) and Lindsey Pollak (Getting from College to Career), and our goal is to provide ''big sister'' advice to men and ...

A few days ago, I was scheduled to be on a local NPR radio show with one of my biggest and longstanding influencers, Bruce Tulgan.  For those of you who might not know, Bruce is internationally recognized as a leading expert on young people in the workplace and has his own consulting firm, Rainmaker Thinking, that has trained employees in ...

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 ...

Lately, I’ve been speaking at a lot of colleges regarding the challenges new graduates can expect to face in the workplace, and how they can conduct themselves professionally and diplomatically in order to ensure their success.  A lot of my tips are things that I wish someone had told me when I was still in school, before I got my first job ...

[ImageAttachment]   Deborah Netburn at the Los Angeles Times comments on the fast-growing number of star siblings making their way to the pearly gates of Hollywood.  Jamie Lynn Spears, sister of Britney, stars on the Nickolodeon show Zoey 101.  Jessica Simpson’s sister Ashlee got a rocky start when she was caught lip synching on ...

[ImageAttachment] Every now and then, I'm going to be featuring interviews with people who are either doing their dream jobs, or who can help us on our quest to snag ours.  This week's chat is with 29-year-old Christine Hassler, a Los Angeles-based life coach and author of 20-Something, 20-Everything. Now we've all heard ...