By Jessica Long (’05), Assistant Director, Career and Professional Development, at Wake Forest University Happy 2018! We’re already a month into the new year, and it’s a great time to take a look at where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’d like to […]
Be the Impostor. Written by Allison McWilliams for the Huffington Post, October 31, 2017. The impostor syndrome is real. It happens to all of us, whether we’re kids trying to fit into a new school group, young adults trying to make it into […]
By Lauren Beam (’07), Associate Director, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, at Wake Forest University We’ve all been there. If you haven’t, you may be at some point. You love your job in terms of the day-to-day tasks, projects, and clients with whom […]
How can you capitalize on your failures and setbacks to shape your career and life in a positive way? John Chambers, Executive Chairman at Cisco, reflects on how to learn lessons from our moments of disappointment in this article from LinkedIn Pulse.
Do you know what your personal mission is? What about the mission of your organization? How do those two things align? Does the work that you do support your values, interests and passions? In this Fast Company piece, Robert Safian shares the stories of […]
Are you trying to figure out your “career path,” or, “how do I get there from here?” As Scott Anthony Barlow tells us in The Daily Muse, the key is not trying to find a straight line to follow from point A to point […]
Generation Y: Seek Out Feedback that Matters, written by Allison McWilliams for the Huffington Post, January 31, 2017 Recently I was talking with a couple of young alums about their first year out of college, and I asked them what they had learned about […]
Setting Goals for Personal and Professional Growth, written by Allison McWilliams for the Huffington Post, January 9, 2017 It’s a new year, that annual time of reflection, introspection, and setting of intentions for the next twelve months. This year I’m going to lose weight […]
