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  • Texting and Writing at Work: Reading Between the Lines

    Texting and Writing at Work: Reading Between the Lines

    By Staci Wilson, Posted Jun 10th 2010 @ 6:07PM

    By Staci Layne Wilson Tina B. Tessina (aka "Dr. Romance") is a psychotherapist and author of several books, including her latest 'It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction.' In the course of working on another article (one about graphology), I asked Dr. Tessina about the psychology behind what we write. As ...

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  • 3 Work Abroad Programs that Offer Good Pay and a Great Experience

    3 Work Abroad Programs that Offer Good Pay and a Great Experience

    By Lauren Fairbanks, Posted May 22nd 2010 @ 3:04PM

    Working abroad can be a boon to both your financial life and mental health. it can also provide insight into another culture, broaden your horizons, and allow you to explore exotic cities that you may never have had the time or money to visit on your own. When deciding to work abroad, there are two routes that ...

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  • Six Weeks to Sleeveless & Sexy... at Work

    Six Weeks to Sleeveless & Sexy... at Work

    By Staci Wilson, Posted May 18th 2010 @ 7:20PM

    These days, too many people get their exercise jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle, dodging responsibilities, bending the rules, running down everything, circulating rumors, passing the buck, stirring up trouble, shooting the bull, digging up dirt, slinging mud, throwing their weight around, beating the ...

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  • Six Subtle Moves That Hold Women Back From Success

    Six Subtle Moves That Hold Women Back From Success

    By Lisa Johnson Mandell, Posted Apr 30th 2010 @ 1:35PM

    It's not that women are supposed to act, dress and sound like men to get ahead in the workplace, but there are a number of gestures women commonly use that denote vulnerability and fragility, rather than power and authority. In a blog called "7 Behaviors that Keep Women from Getting Ahead," Dan Erwin cites an ...

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  • How Quick is Your Draw, Partner?

    How Quick is Your Draw, Partner?

    By Lauren Brookmeyer, Posted Apr 20th 2010 @ 4:20AM

    Do you have one of those friends who always responds REALLY quickly to your e-mails? Like if he or she lived in the Wild Wild West they would have the quickest draw and win the shootout every time? Well, luckily most of us don't have to worry about how fast we can pull a gun out of a holster, but how efficiently ...

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  • Volunteer Vacation: The Growing Trend of Charitable Traveling

    Volunteer Vacation: The Growing Trend of Charitable Traveling

    By Christine Rochelle, Posted Apr 6th 2010 @ 4:29AM

    Zip through the bustling city of Hanoi on the back of a motorbike to teach English, discover Italy's ancient Roman coast, or play with the children at a local orphanage in Costa Rica. These aren't out-of-reach travel experiences -- these are volunteer vacations. Students and work professionals are changing their ...

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  • The Gender Pay Gap--New Opportunities for Women

    The Gender Pay Gap--New Opportunities for Women

    By Carol Berman, Posted Mar 25th 2010 @ 10:57AM

    Many discoveries are made by mistake. Penicillin. Rubber. Even Post-it Notes. Here's one more: unintended results from business school researchers have provided more insight into the decades-old discussion of why men earn more than women. Kevin Clark and Patrick Maggitti of Villanova University and Holly Slay of ...

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  • Don't wait to be told, take the initiative

    Don't wait to be told, take the initiative

    By Lauren Brookmeyer, Posted Mar 6th 2010 @ 8:25AM

    Whether it's day one, or day 101, always show initiative at work. Allow me to relate a personal story: While in college, I worked as a desk associate for one of the major TV/radio networks in New York City. I assisted the producers with phone calls to reporters and possible interview leads, gathered facts for ...

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  • Keep Your Snarky Thoughts to Yourself

    Keep Your Snarky Thoughts to Yourself

    By Liz Lynch, Posted Mar 5th 2010 @ 4:01AM

    A colleague of mine had some damage control to do when one of his staffers fired off an internal email complaining about a difficult client, and inadvertently included said client in the email distribution list. Disagreeing about feedback from the client about her work was one thing, but this staffer had also ...

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