Kate Emswiler
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Christy Turlington Burns Is Here to Make Childbirth Safe For Every Mother, Everywhere
Christy Turlington Burns is a mother, advocate, and founder and CEO of the maternal health organization Every Mother Counts. Having endured a childbirth → Read More
Land a Higher Salary by Pivoting This 1 Crucial Interview Question
"So, what's your current salary?" This is a tricky interview question that might even make you blush. In theory, it's meant to get a sense for → Read More
How The Baby-Sitters Club Inspired Working Women
If you're a lady of a certain age, you most likely lived and breathed The Baby-Sitters Club when you were growing up. Author Ann M. Martin dreamed up a group → Read More
How Can I Make My LinkedIn Profile Better?
"First impressions always matter – treat your LinkedIn photo like a virtual handshake! Upload a photo that aligns with your role as a professional, → Read More
How Can I Make My LinkedIn Profile Better?
Trying to perfect your LinkedIn profile can be an exercise in anxiety management. What do employers want to see? What will make them click away? To get a → Read More
How Can I Make My LinkedIn Profile Better?
"This is your chance to brag a little and set yourself apart! List all past experience that is relevant to your career goals to show potential employers → Read More
How Can I Make My LinkedIn Profile Better?
"Adding a summary of 40 words or more makes your profile more likely to turn up in a future employer's search and adds an additional layer of personality → Read More
How Can I Make My LinkedIn Profile Better?
"The useful shelf life of professional skills has shrunk to less than five years! Stay ahead of the game in the New Year by continually learning and → Read More
How Can I Make My LinkedIn Profile Better?
"Don't be afraid to say where you want to be in your career. Including your current or desired location makes you stand out up to 23 times more in → Read More
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual For a Sexist Workplace
If you're dealing with a sexist office situation, trust us: you're not alone. While women have made great strides in the workplace over the years, subtle and → Read More
16 Books Every Career Gal Should Read
Speaking of building successful companies . . . Good to Great is a thorough examination of what it means for a company to go from being merely good to → Read More
16 Books Every Career Gal Should Read
We all need some guidance from time to time — especially when it comes to navigating work matters. Who hasn't gotten a little lost along their career → Read More
Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice & Build Your Dream Life
A list of career advice books wouldn't be complete without Power Your Happy, which tells the origin story of POPSUGAR straight from the company's very own → Read More
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
While not dedicated entirely to career advice, the powerful insights found within Jen Sincero's You Are a Badass will absolutely carry into your work life in → Read More
16 Books Every Career Gal Should Read
How do you define success? In Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, media mogul and all-around → Read More
16 Books Every Career Gal Should Read
One of the most oft-repeated reasons for why the gender wage gap exists is that women don't feel comfortable negotiating, and thus, they don't increase their → Read More
Mistakes I Made at Work
Isn't it far more entertaining and illustrative to read about people's work blunders (and how they overcame them) than their easy successes? Mistakes I Made at → Read More
Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job
And within this pile of powerful, go-get-'em guides, there's a book titled Quitter. No, it's not a defeatist how-to, but rather tips for mapping out a strategy → Read More
Pushback: How Smart Women Ask — and Stand Up — For What They Want
Are you sensing a theme here? Confidence, self-advocacy, using your voice . . . these are clearly issues that many women struggle with in the workplace — → Read More
Interns at These 25 Companies Earn More Than the Average American Worker
If you're lucky enough to score a crazy-high-paying internship at Facebook, you no longer get to complain about broke college student woes. In perhaps typical → Read More