The Best Career Advice from Coaches for Lawyers and Other Professionals

The Best Career Advice from Coaches for Lawyers and Other Professionals

Wondering what the best career advice from coaches is? We recently contacted several top career coaches (many recommended by Corporette® readers!) to ask them to share their best career advice for professional women in BigLaw, BigFour, and other Big jobs. They shared their thoughts on growing your network and building your reputation, communicating with colleagues…

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Is Your Life On Hold at All?

Is Your Life On Hold at All?

Somehow this came up with a friend recently — we were discussing times our lives had been “on hold” for one reason or another. I thought it might make an interesting conversation here — particularly about how to STOP putting your life on hold. Some questions, to kick off discussion: Have you ever wanted to…

Administrative Professionals’ Day – Open Thread

Administrative Professionals’ Day – Open Thread

Happy Administrative Professionals’ Day! What are you getting for your administrative professional today? In the past we’ve taken polls about the best administrative professionals’ day gifts like cash, flowers, and gifts like jewelry — and we’ve shared stories of our amazing assistants, as well as talked about what’s the best things we’ve delegated to him…

How to Build Your Network — and Maintain It
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How to Build Your Network — and Maintain It

This is kind of an abstract post, so I’ll ask some questions up front for you to think about as you read over it — what are your best professional networking tips, particularly regarding how to build your network, and then how to maintain a network? Which networks, associations and affiliations have been the most…