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How to Get Ahead While Balancing Work and Family

If you do commit to continuing your upward trajectory while caring for your young kids or ailing parents at the same time, how do you carry out both commitments, each of which can seem all-consuming? It begins with establishing expectations.

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5 Tools that Measure Your Online Brand

Measuring your personal brand’s success is easy. But have you tried yet? Do you know how big your brand is on the Web? Here are five easy-to-use Web tools to help you get a handle on how powerful and prevalent your virtual personal brand is.

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Five Tips for Standing Out in Your First Job

Hopefully, this isn't news to recent college graduates, but the workplace is more competitive than ever. If you have a job already, congratulations -- you've made it over the first hurdle. Now it's time to make sure you can stay put through this economic crisis and beyond.

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5 Reasons You Need to Be on LinkedIn Even When You Have a Job

A question I frequently get when training job seekers on using social media is “Won’t my boss think I’m looking for another job if I’m using LinkedIn?”

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Startup Nation: Graduates, Young Adults Turning to Entreprenuership

With jobs still in scarce supply, many recent graduates are trading underemployment for business ownership.

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Career Boosters: 5 Ways to Set Yourself Apart

The phrase “There’s plenty of fish in the sea” may comfort a recently jilted friend, but it is one of the most intimidating realizations for today’s active job seekers.

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Write Less, Say More: The Power of Brevity

People often make a mistake in thinking that writing long-winded sentences with big words makes them appear smart.

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6 Tips For Becoming An Irreplaceable Employee

As the nation, the economy and businesses continue to heal from the recession, job security is more important than ever to most workers. Here are six of Shatkin's tips for becoming an irreplaceable worker.

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