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Do Career Fairs Work for Executives?

As Americans fall victim to layoffs and downsizing, they're flocking to career fairs, causing long lines and exhausting hiring managers whose booths are overflowing with candidates. Automakers, brokerages, retailers, airlines, home ...READ»

The glass ceiling remains unbroken

The Glass Ceiling While 95 percent of 2,521 American workers believe women have made important advancements in the workplace over the last ten years, 86 percent also believe that the glass ceiling is still in place, ...READ»

Feelings First, Logic Later

There is an emotional component in all of our interpersonal dealings and expressing emotion at work is one of the trickiest workplace issues. While your cognitive intelligence often plays a stronger role in helping you get ...READ»

How much should successful female executives do to help other women succeed?

Many female executives are "getting lost in the leadership labyrinth." No matter what you call it, the problem of gender inequality persists, but today more corporate leaders and employment consultants are offering ...READ»

Dress Code Lesson

It's dangerous for men to weigh in on women's professional dress.  To be sure, many people hate dress codes, no matter who imparts the information. When it comes to setting and enforcing dress codes in the workplace, it isn't ...READ»

Stop dressing dead people where you work.

Many praise thankless work as the right and good way to reach their concept of heaven while depleting their life-given spiritual energy. If an impaired spouse and endless labor is your vision of a perfect energy draining life and ...READ»

Are you Superman or Clark Kent?

Do you part your hair the way Superman does or on the right as Clark prefers? In recent years a pseudoscience non-verbal indicator has emerged around the theory that left-partedness signals leadership potential, while parting ...READ»

New Women Leadership Network

Women are mentoring other women to help them succeed within organizations and in a world of "free agents" and "volunteer" talent. This new women-only peer-to-peer virtual community is now open for new ...READ»

Women Executive Leadership

Today, it is no longer about the lack of a level playing field for women to successfully compete with men in the executive suite. It's really about women executives not shooting themselves in the foot due to a lack of ...READ»

Women and Time Management

The more stress a woman feels, the more overwhelmed she becomes.  There are too many things for her to do before she can relax.  The more exhausted she feels, the more urgent it becomes for her to get everything done. In a ...READ»

Executive Women Dress Style

Boyfriend jackets are big: long and roomy, cut to look like they're on loan from a man. Borrowing from the male wardrobe is hardly new--menswear fabrics like tweeds cross over into women's wear every few seasons.  But the ...READ»