by Valerie Gordon | Jul 23, 2020 | Advice, Career, Front and Center
It’s the most dreaded question of all! “Tell me about yourself.” Followed closely by the equally ambiguous, “So… what’s your story?” What do I say? What do they want to hear? I don’t even have a story! Yes, you do....
by Valerie Gordon | Jul 21, 2020 | Advice, Career, Interviews with the Experts
Say you buy a bunch of avocados. You bring them home so you can make guacamole. But they’re too hard to cut into. Not yet ripe. And you have to wait. You leave them for a bit. Maybe you put them in a paper bag to hasten the process (who does this and does it actually...
by Valerie | Jul 1, 2019 | Goals, Productivity
“I don’t wanna…” The voice sounds like a petulant, whiny four year-old. And there’s no one here but me. It’s my inner four year old who complains loudly, annoyingly, through anything she doesn’t really wanna do. She...
by Valerie | Apr 9, 2019 | Advice, Career
They say it’s not what you know, but who you know. I’m going to suggest it’s who you don’t know (all that well… or yet…) Everyone knows the value of an extended network yet we often stick with those in our immediate vision,...
