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by Derek Loosvelt|March 05, 2014
At the age of 12, Marcus Lemonis, star of CNBC's "The Profit,"
owned a lawn cutting business that made $1,000 a week. At 22,
without any prior political experience (other than a summer
internship on Capitol Hill), Lemonis ran for a state seat in
Florida and nearly beat a three-term incumbent. Not long afterward,
Lemonis joined AutoNation, the largest car retailer in the country,
and quickly rose the corporate ladder.
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by Kaitlin Edleman|March 04, 2014
Well, lady lawyers, the results are in. You will likely be
disappointed, but probably not overly surprised, to learn that
you're still getting paid less than your male counterparts and
working in the lowest-status attorney positions in the firm. The
National Association of Women Lawyers recently released its "Report
of the Eight Annual NAWL National Survey on Retention and Promotion
of Women in Law Firms," surveying 200 of the largest law firms in
the United States for 2013.
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by Derek Loosvelt|February 21, 2014
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not
doing anything very innovative." "Many of life's failures are
people who did not realize how close they were to success when they
gave up." "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail
again. Fail better." These quotes of failure (from Woody Allen,
Thomas Edison, and Samuel Beckett, respectively) have been
popularized for a reason. And that reason is failure is the route
to success. That said, failing stinks.
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by Vault Careers|February 19, 2014
In 1915, historian Carter G. Woodson and the Reverend Jesse E.
Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and
History. Nine years later, Woodson and Moorland led a successful
petition calling for the second week in February to be devoted to
celebrating the heritage and achievements of African Americans. In
the 1960s, that weeklong celebration became a month-long one, and
in 1976, President Gerald Ford officially recognized February as
Black History Month.
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by Kaitlin Edleman|February 19, 2014
If you read articles on the Internet, you can't escape stock
photos. In fact, you are looking at one right now! While some are
certainly more creative than others, the carefully contrived images
of 30 something office workers in painfully straight pinstripe
suits are almost laughable. Although many of us might not give
these images spicing up our blogs and news articles much thought,
Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg is. Sandberg's nonprofit
organization, LeanIn.
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by Phil Stott|February 19, 2014
With so much information competing for your attention, it can be
difficult to stay on top of the latest developments and ideas in
your field-and none more than consulting, where leading firms
compete to produce game-changing ideas and insights. Of
course, one of the unfortunate by-products of all that research is
that much of it is just not that interesting or relevant.
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by Cathy Vandewater|February 18, 2014
"Complete a pre-MBA course at Oxford Business School, become
proficient at a musical instrument or learn another language."
According to Tracey Spicer during her recent TED talk, that's what
women could do with the 3,276 hours they currently spend grooming
for work. Oh, and if they groom too much, they might need those
extra hours for a second job: "If a woman doubles her grooming
time, her earnings decrease on average 3.4 per cent," Spicer says.
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by Vault Careers|February 12, 2014
While office romances are more accepted than ever in the workplace,
men and women may be entering into these relationships for entirely
different reasons. According to Vault.com's 2014 Office Romance
Survey, 56% of business professionals surveyed say they have
participated in some type of workplace relationship, but the types
of behavior associated with these unique company connections differ
significantly between the sexes.
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by Phil Stott|February 06, 2014
The Congressional Budget Office predicted earlier this week that
one of the side-effects of the Affordable Care Act would be to
eliminate the equivalent of 2 million full-time jobs, almost
entirely as a result of "a net decline in the amount of labor that
workers choose to supply.
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by Kaitlin Edleman|February 03, 2014
With Valentine's Day looming, many young lawyers may feel panic
motivating them to start upping their text game to lock down that
compulsory romantic February 14th date (or going radio silent
to avoid the impending awkward allusions to dinner plans). I can
only assume this exchange will be conducted via text, because I
don't think cell phones have the capability to actually make calls
anymore.
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