8 Moments That Can Make or Break Your Career
Check out these great tips from Glassdoor.com about how to handle many of the “firsts” in your career.
Do the Work: 10 Keys to Owning Your Career Immediately
By Allison McWilliams (’95), PhD, Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University. The first few years of work can be a jarring, unsettling time, as you try to figure out the rules and norms of behavior, build a track record […]
Do the Work: Becoming a “Freelancer” in Your Workplace
By Lauren Beam (’07), Associate Director, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University For many recent college graduates and young professionals, the thought of being an entrepreneur (or simply, your own boss) is a highly appealing and sought-after career path. Being able […]
Be the Impostor
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 […]
To Stay or To Go? Things To Consider Before Exiting the Workforce
By Lauren Beam (’07), Associate Director for Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University As a mom to two young children and a part-time working professional, I can certainly relate to parents who are struggling with whether to exit the workforce or […]
How to Use Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to Change Your Career
In this Fast Company article, Kristi A. Dosh shares her best tips for how to leverage social media tools to tap into career or industry-related Twitter discussions, use YouTube to turn a hobby into a job skill, and find clients and business leads on […]
Alumni Advice: What I’ve Learned From Running My Own Business
By Amy Shackelford (’14), Founder/Lead Planner at Modern Rebel & Co. in New York City When I was fresh out of Wake Forest undergrad, I decided to move to Philadelphia, PA to work on a three-person team, in a non-salaried position for a start-up company. […]
I Love my Job, But Not my Boss/Co-Workers. What Do I Do?
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 to Get Promoted and Avoiding Stumbling Through Your Career
By Andrea Ellis (MA ’04), Assistant Vice President of Innovation at Wake Forest University Research continues to inform us that jobs and careers abound with the average worker expected to hold ten different jobs before 40. If you are just beginning your career, that number […]
Managing Priorities in the Workplace
The Urgent vs. The Interesting: Managing Priorities in the Workplace, written by Allison McWilliams for the Huffington Post, June 13, 2017. One of the hardest, yet one of the most important, professional lessons to learn is how to manage priorities in the workplace. Particularly […]
