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5 Digital Skills That Will Help You Get A Better Title And Make More Money At The Start Of Your Career

Getting your degree is a major investment in yourself, but your learning shouldn’t stop there. While a science or liberal arts education can serve as an important foundation for your other skills, you’re still going to need those “other skills” …

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Looking for a High-Paying Sales Job? Here are 7 Roles to Consider

Sales jobs vary widely based on what you’re selling and who you’re selling to. You might be providing a software solution to solve a company’s efficiency issues, offering a medical device to minimize mistakes in surgeries, or helping a family …

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Who’s Hiring? | 5 Orgs Fighting for Racial Justice

Though it may still seem far off, the current pandemic will eventually end and many of us will come out of this with more strength and bravery than we may have realized we were capable of. But the stark reality …

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Career Branding: Leverage Your Unique Work Trademark

What comes to mind when asked to name:

A reliable tissue, A refreshing type of cola, A very safe car

Many of you probably thought of Kleenex, Coke and Volvo. If you did, those companies have done their job in …

By Serena Santillanes
Serena Santillanes President
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Know Your Rights | How the Law Protects Workers’ Health During COVID-19

COVID-19 has forced all of us to take a good, hard look at our health and access to healthcare. While we wait for the global curve to flatten, many of us are experiencing heightened anxiety over how illness can affect …

By Nisha Kumar Kulkarni
Nisha Kumar Kulkarni
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Are You Considering A Career In the Nonprofit Sector?

Working for non-profits leads to satisfying employment filled with purpose and meaning!
Nonprofit employment is about always feeling over-worked and under-paid!
Nonprofit jobs are exciting, creative, and cutting-edge!
The nonprofit sector is a stressful career doing too much with too …
By Serena Santillanes
Serena Santillanes President
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Job Search Blues: Stop searching and start finding the opportunities you want!

Are you frustrated with a job search that takes months of time with little results? Not winning interviews? Not getting callbacks? Getting offers for jobs you don’t want? Feeling demoralized and hopeless? I have a secret…the The traditional job search …
By Serena Santillanes
Serena Santillanes President
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The Art of Negotiating A New Salary or A Raise

As the title of this article says, effective negotiation is an art–meaning a skill or craft. Therefore, successful negotiations should be a planned and strategic exchange rather than a spontaneous eruption of demands or threats. The word negotiation is defined …
By Serena Santillanes,
Serena Santillanes, President
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Networking: It’s Not A Bad Word!

For many, the word networking elicits thoughts of schmoozing, asking for something, or slick salesmanship. But in reality, networking is defined in the dictionary as “a supportive system of sharing information and services among individuals and groups having a common …

By Serena Santillanes
Serena Santillanes President
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Creating an “Ideal” Job

It has been said that dream jobs are not found but created. In my twenty-plus years as a career counselor I can attest to that wisdom! The first key to creating a dream job is knowing what makes it “ideal.” …
By Serena Santillanes,
Serena Santillanes, President
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