Eat Your Career

MAY 19, 2020

What if I transfer internally and my potential new supervisor presses me for details, knowing the reputation my current supervisor has. How do I professionally respond to such an inquiry?” ” Watch the video to hear Chrissy’s answer, and feel free to share your own suggestions in the comments below.

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Allwork

APRIL 9, 2024

With great pride, my hosts showed me the “cafe area” that was designed to induce casual interaction and “serendipitous collaboration and innovation.” The first drafts of my four books were all written in coffee shops. Productivity can abound in such environments — not despite but because of the loud hustle and bustle.

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Success

JANUARY 4, 2023

The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. It’s not just my way or the highway,” she says. Watch your attitude.

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Success

JUNE 13, 2023

Neither of my parents finished college…. College was important, but it wasn’t something that was fully attainable in my mind.” Chance’s father, Ken Williams-Bennett, served as Barack Obama’s state director when the former president was an Illinois senator.) “I feel like my first big success was the first show I produced.

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Eat Your Career

MAY 24, 2020

A participant asks: My question is about how to take time for professional development in the midst of a busy work day. I work in a school and my desk is located in the front office suite. This video is an excerpt from a live Q&A session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer.

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Eat Your Career

APRIL 4, 2023

And that is exactly what you’re going to learn to do in my upcoming webinar called, “Maximize Your Potential: How to Leverage Your Skills FULLY in the Workplace.” If you’re watching this video AFTER April 12, 2023 , you can access the training replay in the Career Success Library. Sign up at MyCareerLibrary.com.

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Success

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Mood check-ins, daily email prompts and a brand new navigation system all assist in keeping you—and Calm’s library of resources—organized and ready at any time of the day or night. Library of Guided Meditations. Again, don’t worry that you’ll be sorting through such a vast library of meditations on your own. Daily Calm.

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Allwork

MARCH 3, 2024

The open space concept with the library tables brings me back to law school. When I use this space, it brings me back to my training roots as a lawyer where we exchange ideas and work in collaborative spaces,” said Frank Wukovits, an associate in the Tech, Privacy, & Data Innovations practice.

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Eat Your Career

JULY 7, 2022

The full video (“Managing Interruptions & Dealing with Distractions”) is available in the Career Success Library. This is my distinction between what an interruption is and what a distraction is. Here’s my distinction. I know that you guys aren’t intentionally trying to draw my attention and interrupt me.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Educational Video Library. Office Dynamics has a library of over 60 educational videos for administrative professionals. Joan is an accomplished author and writer of multiple books, including an Amazon Best Seller , Who Took My Pen…Again?, Turbocharge your career with different articles written by Joan Burge.

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Success

MARCH 24, 2023

I call it my 10-80-10 rule. I’m there to breathe life into my team’s spirits and encourage them to persevere. I amassed a library of audio recordings during the years I worked on creating my Maximum Impact Club lessons. One day an associate suggested we bundle and sell my top 100 lectures.

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Eat Your Career

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In my view, it’s what makes professional certifications so powerful. In my experience, many organizations follow an “honor system.” Meaning: I capture the information for my own records, but I also go ahead and input the data into the online tracking system for the certification. If you’re not sure how to do that, keep watching.

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Tips From T. Marie

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Last Saturday was our annual Apple Festival here in my little Maine town, my youngest granddaughter had to be at the field for soccer pictures at 8:20 am, my oldest granddaughter needed a ride to and from work, the local library was holding their book sale and my favorite metaphysical store was holding a special autumn equinox event.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In my experience, we ALL want to have an effect on our surroundings; we want our work to be meaningful and our voice to be heard. For example: If you don’t go along with my idea, I’ll create problems for you down the road. For example: If you go along with my idea, we’ll all get raises! We want to make purposeful contributions.

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Success

OCTOBER 18, 2023

I invite my audience to learn to listen to that internal guidance that is always awaiting us,” says Sorro, who has been surrounded by the world of personal development her entire life. I discovered the access point to my soul’s purpose through my podcast,” Sorro has said on her social media platforms. “My

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Eat Your Career

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The full video (“Exploring Time Management Tools and Tech”) is available in the Career Success Library. So, if I’m spending 20 or 30 minutes with my tools and my technology, then I’m maybe not saving 10 minutes per minute; I’m actually now only saving seven or eight minutes and it starts to go down.

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Eat Your Career

JUNE 14, 2020

A participant in our recent Q&A (Ask the Career Coach) session asked: My executive treats me like a servant rather than a business partner. I told him I don’t want to have to answer my phone while I’m on PTO, but that doesn’t prevent him from calling/texting when I am. Take Your Career to the Next Level.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 16, 2021

The full video is available in the Career Success Library. Can you suggest a way of avoiding my CV or resume being rejected for this reason?” This video is an excerpt from a live Q&A session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. Can you suggest a way of avoiding rejection for this reason?”.

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Success

AUGUST 9, 2022

I usually just ask for a word of advice via email, but most of them talked to me on the phone and offered to read my essays and share feedback. Oh, you like when I show my work on the math test? In my first drafts of my application essays, I was indeed trying to be what I thought a Harvard student was supposed to be.

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Success

JANUARY 10, 2024

My goal with being able to read facial expressions was never anything I had intended to use professionally,” Särnblad says. “I I had a significant amount of trauma in my childhood and had deep issues with trusting people. Almost all management problems, corporate problems, political problems—they’re people problems.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full video (“Overcoming an Overwhelming Workload”) is available in the Career Success Library. They often say, “Well, I don’t specifically have anyone that is necessarily under my purview, like someone that I supervise, that I can very easily delegate to.”. The article below summarizes the video content.

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Success

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

My initial thought is to give him money, though I just avoided eye contact with the last 10 people, sputtering that I didn’t have any. And my mom’s words come to mind: “He’ll only spend it on drugs or alcohol.” When I approach him, I feel awkward, my donation insignificant. The absurd thought turns my face hot.

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Eat Your Career

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This is an excerpt from a special report available in the Career Resource Library , a convenient and affordable training program featuring 100+ on-demand professional development resources for career advancers and administrative professionals. But take heart, my dear admin friend. Plan your day…even if the plan will never be kept.

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Success

MARCH 2, 2022

Now she is left wondering, how do I bring my vision to my audience? By creating a library of videos, blog posts and podcasts first, you give such groups the chance to get to know your story and what you have to offer. She is on a mission to “make happiness contagious” through her life and career coaching.

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Success

JULY 6, 2022

Held safe a few months old, by the person I’ve loved, admired and been influenced by the most—my paternal grandfather, a science writer by passion. Again, seen through my mother’s observant lens. My heart is greedy. Discovered different aspects of my personality through my mother’s lens (back then, an instant film camera).

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 12, 2017

In case you missed it, I hosted my first monthly free coaching call of 2017 earlier this week! This call is exclusively for members of the Free Career Resource Library. The recording of this month’s call is now available for download in the Member Library, and you can also listen to it there if you’d prefer.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

My suspicion is that they’ll just pivot to other types of franchises and dig deeper into their libraries for things that have gathered a little dust,” as Paramount did recently on Top Gun: Maverick. What would happen to Hollywood if the kind of films topping the box office charts suddenly lost their audience?

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Success

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Neither am I, but I shun wisdom that’s stood the test of time at my own peril. My own is judgment. I judge people for how they drive and lose my mind when I see someone litter. It robs me of my mental energy, and I’ve targeted this part of my mindset to work on; that is, to replace judgment with compassion.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 21, 2014

As a little girl I loved spending time in my local library so imagine my excitement when I found myself spending a night in a library themed hotel – in New York City! Walking into the lobby from the hustle and bustle of Madison Avenue you do feel like you are in a rather sophisticated library.

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Success

AUGUST 19, 2022

Twice a week, always on a school night, my mom would drive me to the piano school hoping my music teacher would unlock some untapped potential deep inside of me. My piano teacher was stern and classical, and I was young and unfocused. My practice book was filled with notes expressing her disappointment: Please practice!

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Eat Your Career

JUNE 30, 2021

The full video (“Building Career Resilience”) is available in the Career Success Library. So I have my nice little visual aid here…. I’m not going to do it to save my delicate fingers!) The article below summarizes the video content. A rubber band stretches, right? As human beings, that can happen to us.

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Eat Your Career

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In this article, I’m going to offer my take on this. But first, if you haven’t read my article on the difference between these roles, start there: Administrative Assistant vs. Executive Assistant: What’s the Difference? In order to go from an admin to EA, there are a few things to keep in mind.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 22, 2020

I’ve had all of my training events for the month of March postponed and it looks like April is soon to follow. I was expecting to travel about 50% of my time for these months, and now I’ll be at home. I’ll still make my usual breakfast and start work around 8. Then my sister called. Maybe this new life isn’t so bad…?

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Eat Your Career

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For my business, the month of December is always blessedly slow—and I like to take advantage. FYI, you can access replays of ALL of the training webinars I’ve hosted for the past two years in the Career Success Library. FYI, there’s a Business Case Template available for members of the Career Success Library.) Get yours here.

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Eat Your Career

JUNE 30, 2019

In my role as a career coach, I’ve helped a lot of people navigate the complex world of job search. Most of my clients haven’t had to search for a job in many, many years. In this month’s webinar, I’m sharing my most essential “rules” for launching a modern job search. Plus, I’ll be answering your questions on the live session!

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Eat Your Career

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I’ve spent that past year revising and updating this website, all on my own(!), in an effort to reconnect with what I love the most about my own career—inspiring others. I hope you don’t mind my honesty here. I excelled in my role and earned a promotion in the first three months. So, that leads me back to quitting my job.

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Eat Your Career

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I’ve spent that past year revising and updating this website, all on my own(!), in an effort to reconnect with what I love the most about my own career—inspiring others. I hope you don’t mind my honesty here. I excelled in my role and earned a promotion in the first three months. So, that leads me back to quitting my job.

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