Are you pretty bad at self-promotion? Raise your hand if you’ve ever deferred a compliment by talking yourself down. (You know, someone says “She’s so smart! She just finished up her graduate degree!” ...

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If you’re like most women, you cringe at the idea of self-promotion. Images of shameless blowhards flood your mind when you imagine doing more to publicly share your value. You realize that your work ...

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I attended my first academic conference during my second year of graduate school. While I was there, I ran into a professor whom I had studied with as an undergraduate, and who had written a letter of ...

With decades of experience in human resources and having worked together for years at the Twin Cities office of Lee Hecht Harrison, a career services firm, Nancy Burke and Richard Dodson always joked ...

In our noisy age, it clearly doesn’t work to just do good work and hope opportunities find you. Putting yourself out there is key. But there’s a catch when it comes to self-promotion–people really ...

1. Actively communicate your contributions. People can’t read your mind, so don’t expect your boss or your coworkers to understand how you’re contributing or why your work matters. Tell them–whether ...

With decades of experience in human resources and having worked together for years at the Twin Cities office of Lee Hecht Harrison, a career services firm, Nancy Burke and Richard Dodson always joked ...

There’s nothing quite like a quick scroll through Instagram to fuel your contempt for other people. It’s the evening commute and you’re avoiding eye contact with strangers by staring at your feed, ...

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