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The Four-Year Career

When you think about career planning, do you think of a twenty-year plan, or do you think about taking life day-by-day? In this Fast Company piece, Anya Kamenetz describes an approach that sits somewhere in between: The Four-Year Career. How are you being planful, […]


Increase Your Productivity: Managing Your Email Inbox

By Lauren Beam (’07) We are all bombarded with constant, incoming email messages in a world of smart phones and watches and hard-to-ignore notifications. With email often being the primary mode of communication in most professional work places, it can be a challenge to manage […]


7 Ways to Make Your Job Meaningful Again

We all struggle at times to find meaning at work, even those of us who might identify our work as a “calling.” Some days it’s hard to see the higher purpose. But there are some easy steps that you can take to re-energize yourself for […]


The Big Return: Tips for Workforce Re-Entry

By Laura Harrell (’92), Director of Engagement Programs in the Office of Alumni Engagement at Wake Forest University In September of 2012, I returned to campus with my family to celebrate my 20th reunion during Homecoming weekend at Wake Forest. I never would have imagined […]


How to “Take Initiative” and “Be a Strategic Thinker”

By Allison McWilliams At some point, probably at many points, in your professional career, you are going to hear one if not both of these terms: “We want you to take initiative.” Or, “Be a strategic thinker.” They have been used with such frequency that […]


Skills for the Young Professional: How to Behave in Meetings

By Megan Bosworth (’12) “Let’s set up a meeting.” This phrase is so common to the workplace that it creates a universal truth for most offices: lots of meetings. If you work in an office, you can almost guarantee that a portion of your time […]


Rethinking Work

What motivates people at work? How do we ensure that those who work for and with us are engaged at work? We may be thinking about it all wrong (hint: it’s not about compensation). Check out this piece in the New York Times by […]


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