“Accomplishment and happiness go together,” Hillary Rodham Clinton told an enthusiastic crowd during her recent talk for the Chicago Humanities Festival Joanne H. Alter Women in Government Lecture.
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Job search anxiety is one of the many factors that may hold women back from professional development. HR Dive showed that 84% of women have the skills to advance their careers, but most of these female professionals feel anxious about their next career moves compared to their male counterparts. The younger ones, in particular, think their skill sets are not useful in the workplace and that their next career move is outside their control.
The good news is that you can overcome job search anxiety and gain control over your professional advancement. To address this dilemma, you must understand the root causes of job search anxiety and identify strategies that can address them.
It’s about the sway, not just the balance.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Joann Lublin says that for mothers employed outside the home, balance is not the goal, but swaying is.
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Jasmine LeFlore and Dr. Brittany Wheeler grew up in different regions of the country with different circumstances, but a similar outsized curiosity and love of learning in math and science.
When they did meet when both were pursuing graduate degrees and working in engineering and aerospace, they collaborated to co-found Greater Than Tech, so Black girls would always have a space to seed their dreams.
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Who really needs a partridge in a pear tree? What many women in the workplace need is a reliable set of accessible tools, insights and proven leadership lessons to enhance and transform their careers and their work lives.
Take The Lead offers those valuable tips each week in interviews with a broad range of leaders across identities and communities in various industries across the globe, representing different approaches to distinct challenges many face.
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Both of them knew about each other’s work. And their collaboration was a perfect fit.
Wendy Smith was a fan of her co-author, Marianne Lewis, and her research long before they met. Lewis was aware of the research Smith was working on as well; so their connection is the best example of their theory that life and work are not a collection of one or the other, clear-cut choices and either/or decisions.
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After earning her Masters in Business Administration at Columbia University in New York in 2012, following five years working in banking in Mexico, Maricella Herrera was interviewing for a new boutique banking job in Mexico, where she intended to return to live.
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Carla Harris has been with Take The Lead from the get-go.
The acclaimed and celebrated Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, author, leader, professional singer and philanthropist was with Take The Lead at its 2014 launch and will accept the 2022 Leading Woman Award this year at the Power Up Conference: The Big RE August 25-26.
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It is impossible to be the change you want to see if you are stuck in one Big RE. That RE is REsistance.
REsistance is one of the unspoken differences that separates world-class leaders from everyone else. If you want to stand out from the sea of sameness, you must be willing to get unhooked from resistance.
Maybe, just maybe, Karen Graham can attribute her new career as vice president of marketing and brand for Evite back to her mom who loved to throw parties when she, her younger brother and older sister were growing up in the northern suburbs of Chicago.
“I’ve always loved events, I’m very social, but I haven’t thought before that my mom loved throwing parties. She went big for birthday parties. So something rubbed off on me,” says Graham, who is in charge of rebranding Evite, the 24-year-old online invitation platform.
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It matters if you see people in the world who are like you. Fair and equitable representation in content across platforms is the mission of Standard, a creator management company, with Gemma Arnott as Chief Operating Officer.
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Is your comfort zone holding you back?
Look, trust me, I know it can sometimes be hard to acknowledge that we’re the ones responsible for making progress (or lack thereof) in our lives, but the good news is we can unlearn that behavior in order to get out of our own way.
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