Career advice for young women professionals.
Reader A thinks her look is too “tomboy” for the office… I am writing to you in hopes for some advice on how to change from a “tom boy look” to a mid-level executive in a financial institution. I know that your blog is mostly geared toward New York lawyers, but while I am neither…
An MBA grad working in Investor Relations wondered what to wear to a strategic planning meeting in the Bahamas.
Reader E has a question about bad habits at the office, from nail biting, cuticle picking, hair twirling, and more… I must not be the only nail biter/ cuticle picker. What do all the over-eaters, hair twirlers, nail-biters do? I think it’s incredibly unprofessional to be nibbling at my hands all day…. Great question, E!…
Reader A has a question about truth in advertising… and how to tell a prospective employer that you’ve been laid off. I’m a 2010 law grad with an interview at a biglaw firm in the next couple of days. For the last 6 months, I’ve been working at small law firm, and I was laid…
I’ve moved far too many times, particularly in my early 20s when I was interning a lot. (My record is 8 different addresses in 2 years not even counting 2-week “pitstops” at my parents’ house to unpack everything I needed while interning and repack everything I needed for college.) Things have settled down a lot…
