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My guilty pleasure isn’t watching The Bachelor or indulging in macarons (although I do both on occasion). No, my must-have indulgence is a great professional blowout. Many women think that having a fabulous bag, killer shoes or a well-fitted suit will go miles in the workforce but truthfully, the ‘maintenance must’ that most women [...]

So excited to be working with Marie Claire and Ann Taylor for a fashion filled and career enhancing night in NYC! Hope you can join us!

There’s nothing we love more here at LinkedIn than connecting talented professionals. Last night we invited dozens of fabulous female journalists (who work at outlets like CNBC, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Reader’s Digest, TIME, etc.) to network and mingle with one another while chatting about how important their online professional brand is. LinkedIn’s event took place at [...]

With the recession slowing down and jobs growing – people are resolving to focus on their career and move up after sitting back these last few years. In fact, based on a new LinkedIn survey, more than 74% of us globally added a professional goal to our lineup in 2012. Rather than wanting a new [...]

In the face of the down economy the strategic, disruptive approach is to identify influencers with extensive experience in creating problem—solving results.
Yep, that’s a real life sentence, found in a real life publication. But what exactly does it say? In a word that actually means something: nothing. At a time when there is more content [...]

If you’re like the majority of people around the globe, a day in your life consists of a never ending to-do list that doesn’t always get completed. According to LinkedIn’s latest study, professionals around the world use a pretty even mix of paper and technology to capture their daily tasks. We are also easily distracted [...]

LinkedIn announced some fascinating stats about cool careers this morning and it reminded me of a conversation I once had with someone about their dream job. When I worked at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, my very first client told me that he dreamed of being a pilot. Being legally blind he knew [...]

With passion in my heart and incorporation documents in my hand, I was sitting in my newly furnished office when a good friend stopped by to wish me congratulations on my business venture. I’d been at it for almost two months and between marketing materials, website design and hiring an assistant, I’d yet to actually [...]

Are you lucky? As I’ve written here in my LinkedIn blog this is one of my favorite and most telling career (and frankly life) questions. For the last couple of days I’ve been interviewed about this recent survey and one writer, confused about the definition of luck asked, “what’s the difference between luck and success?” [...]

Apparently that’s exactly why women are more effective networkers than men! You can read all about it in Business Networking and Sex. Had the pleasure of sitting down with author Ivan Misner in an interview with Hoda and Kathy Lee on The Today Show.
Now for the important stuff: Yes, they genuinely like each other. No, [...]