Alexandra Levit is the founder and president of Inspiration at Work, a career consulting firm. A former nationally syndicated career columnist with Tribune Media Services and a current blogger for www.HuffingtonPost.com and www.GetTheJob.com, Alexandra has author...
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Employees Are Already Starting to Jump Ship by Alexandra Levit - Oct, 2012 Many people (myself included) predicted a mass exodus of workers from their jobs when the economy picked up. According to a recent survey conducted by Robert Half International and OfficeTeam, a staffing service specializing in the placement of administrative professionals, it’s already happening. According to Robert Hosking, executive director of OfficeTeam, the top reasons employees are quitting their jobs this spring i... |
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Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go by Alexandra Levit - Oct, 2012 I am very fortunate to count Beverly Kaye among my smartest and savviest mentors. For those of you who might not know her, Bev is a pioneer in the field of talent management and career development and continues to innovate at the helm of a large HR consultancy and with her new book, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go. Besides the title, I also love that the book debunks myths (Blind Spots, anyone)? Here are a few Bev offers... |
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Self-Plagiarism and Other Ethical Grey Areas by Alexandra Levit - Oct, 2012 I know a very young and successful business book author named Jonah Lehrer. Lehrer has written two bestselling books and is frequently in the news, but last month it was not for a positive reason. Slate – among other outlets – recently reported that Lehrer had been caught stealing…from himself. “Media watcher Jim Romenesko claimed that Jonah, a newly minted New Yorker staff writer, copied his blog post “Why Smart Pe... |
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How to Be Happier at Home (and Work) by Alexandra Levit - Sep, 2012 Gretchen Rubin has been a friend of mine since the early days of our blogs. Her first book, The Happiness Project, became an international bestseller, and I was excited to read her latest effort, Happier at Home. The new book focuses on ways we can make our homes places of greater simplicity, comfort, and love. Since I specialize in careers and work, I naturally zeroed in on the part of the book that focuses on work/li... |
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Increase Your Income without Getting a New Job by Alexandra Levit - Aug, 2012 When you’re underpaid or not earning enough money for some other reason, a common solution is to find a new job. Yet, this still isn’t totally practical given the job market’s slow recovery. Until things improve significantly, you may well be stuck where you are. However, this does not mean you’re helpless. I asked Laura Vanderkam, author of the new book All the Money in the World: What the Happiest People Know About Ge... |
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Can Your Boss Count on You? by Alexandra Levit - Apr, 2012 You know what I've realized in my tenure as a manager? The number one quality I appreciate most in a direct report is reliability. By reliable, I mean a person who says she is going to do something, and then actually does it in the agreed-upon manner. You’d think this one would be kind of a no brainer for employees, especially when it comes to the boss who hands out the paychecks. But time and time again, in both my perso... |
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How to Get from College to Career: Advice from Lindsey Pollak by Alexandra Levit - Apr, 2012 My good friend Lindsey Pollak recently released a terrific new edition of her well-loved book, Getting from College to Career. In the midst of the craziness of having a new book and baby, she generously shared some thoughts about what college grads can do to improve their careers in 2012: What made you decide to do a new edition at this time? We’re living in a time of such rapid change in the world of business and c... |
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Premature Escalation? by Alexandra Levit - Apr, 2012 A few years ago, I was finishing up a project at the agency where I worked part time. My colleague and I had been working closely with another internal team on this initiative for a while and fortunately, things were going relatively smoothly. As the vice president overseeing the project, I always tried to be responsive to the internal team’s needs, knowing that they represented the best interests of the client. My colleag... |
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What is Your Advantage Really? by Alexandra Levit - Apr, 2012 You probably already know that I am a huge fan of Pat Lencioni. I first met Pat when I wrote about him in the WSJ in 2009 and have devoured his various fables about executives jockeying for key positions and striving for self-actualization in fictional American companies. This week, Pat has released his first nonfiction business book, The Advantage. In it, he argues that the difference between successful companies and me... |
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Nobody Cares About Titles - Or Do They? by Alexandra Levit - Mar, 2012 Corporate hierarchies are out. Organizations are flatter than ever. Entrepreneurialism is the new best practice. The newest college grads are railing against the establishment, saying they don’t want to “pay their dues” in order to climb the corporate ladder rung by rung, and that they want to do meaningful work right away. And the business world is listening to them. It seems as if the entry-level grunt is a thing of the past... |
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