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Let’s Practice Reflection

By Maggie Kuhn (’21), Assistant Director, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development at Wake Forest University The society we live in is increasingly engineered for productivity. Self checkout lanes, drive-through restaurants, online shopping – all efficiencies meant to keep up the pace, to save […]


The One Question You Should Ask About Every New Job

Some Opinion articles stand the test of time. This is especially true of organizational psychologist and author Adam Grant’s 2015 article in the NY Times. In this piece, Grant addresses the conundrum of figuring out the organizational culture of a company you’ve yet to […]


How to Start Work

Whether you’re starting your first professional job after graduation or moving into a new job role as a seasoned worker, starting work well is critical to your future success. In her latest post from Psychology Today, Wake Forest’s Assistant Vice President for Mentoring and […]


Own Your Career: 4 Intentional Steps

In this LinkedIn article by Brenda Bown (Chief Marketing Officer at Salesforce), she reflects on four key steps to making intentional decisions and taking action to progress your career. Bown shares examples from her own personal and professional life about what “owning your career […]


5 Skills to Develop in Your First Five Years After College

Five For Your First Five. This is how our Alumni Personal & Career Development Center team refers to the five areas you need to master in your first five years after college. These are the key skills that you need to develop to build a career and […]


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