During recent talks I’ve given about young people entering the workplace, a new issue has been cropping up.  “These twenty-somethings come in and expect to take over the company right away,” older managers complain.   Whether you’re twenty-two or sixty-two, arriving on the scene like a bulldozer is not good strategy for starting off a ...

In the fall of 2004, I published a book called They Don't Teach Corporate in College, which was based upon my experiences as an overachieving twenty-something slogging her way through the business world.  Around this time of year, I always get asked for a few tips for surviving your first job out of college.  For those of you about to ...

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 ...

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 ...