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Career Currency: Investing in Your Niche Strengths

In the dynamic world of business, success is not a matter of chance; it’s an investment in your strengths and talents.  Just as astute investors carefully select stocks with promising growth potential, so hiring managers and recruiters actively seek talent to grow their business and add cachet to their portfolio.  That’s why it’s more important than ever to identify and …

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How to Have a Smooth Summer-to-Job Transition

Enjoying free time, getting reacquainted with your teenagers, or spending more time in the mountains and beaches – what’s not to love about a lazy summer, especially if you left your job last spring?  However, with the certainty of summer’s end comes the realization that your career waits for no one.  So do not let summer bills pile up or …

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How to Outshine AI Performance and Keep Your Job

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been front and center in the news lately, especially regarding its potential to transform the job market.   The two most popular artificial intelligence brainiacs, Bing AI, and ChatGPT, enlightened us on their versions of which occupations a cybernetic Armageddon could eventually obliterate.  Check to see if your job is at risk and whether you need to …

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Career Advice: Choose, Don’t Settle

The best advice I ever received from my mentor, a seasoned CEO with decades of corporate storytelling under his belt, was “choose, don’t settle.”  At the time, I was trying to decide between accepting an “okay” job offer or continuing to pursue a more intimidating management position that nevertheless, I was qualified.  By taking his advice and choosing not settling, not only did I …