I'm fortunate to have coached numerous senior-level women with considerable experience and expertise who have not gained the title or pay grade they deserve. They feel stuck and frustrated, watching ...

If you’re like most women, you cringe at the idea of self-promotion. Images of shameless blowhards flood your mind when you imagine doing more to publicly share your value. You realize that your work ...

Promoting yourself at work can be difficult and awkward. “Good work speaks for itself,” the adage goes. And while it’s a comforting thought, it’s also wishful thinking. The reality is that it’s ...

Are you pretty bad at self-promotion? Raise your hand if you’ve ever deferred a compliment by talking yourself down. (You know, someone says “She’s so smart! She just finished up her graduate degree!” ...

While it's never been a better time to be a successful IT professional in terms of professional gains, recognizing opportunities for career advancement is just the starting point. IT professionals who ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A few years back, I attended a convention of entrepreneurs with a respected business journalist who was looking for interesting ...

I attended my first academic conference during my second year of graduate school. While I was there, I ran into a professor whom I had studied with as an undergraduate, and who had written a letter of ...

1. Actively communicate your contributions. People can’t read your mind, so don’t expect your boss or your coworkers to understand how you’re contributing or why your work matters. Tell them–whether ...

Thousands of messages fight for our attention every day. When it comes to promoting ourselves for jobs and promotions, we face a mountain of competition when we try to get our unique story through the ...

Promoting your career is the name of the game for most researchers, but is excessively citing your own papers a good or bad thing? Dalmeet Singh Chawla investigates Tooting your horn can be good at ...

With decades of experience in human resources and having worked together for years at the Twin Cities office of Lee Hecht Harrison, a career services firm, Nancy Burke and Richard Dodson always joked ...

Forrest Gump’s mama was right when she compared the human experience to a box of assorted chocolates. It’s true: “You never know what you’re gonna get.” And these days, the same could be said of my ...