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How to Work With a Recruitment Agency: Get Better Job Offers

Working with a Recruitment Agency: Keys to Producing Ideal Outcomes If you want to know how to work with a recruitment agency in a way that leads to better roles, stronger offers, and less wasted time, it starts with having a clear strategy and understanding how recruiters really operate. If you’ve ever felt like applying online is slow, discouraging, and…

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How to Achieve Career Goals: 5 Proven Steps for Real Career Change

Committing to Change: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Professional Resolutions Key Insight: The most effective way to achieve career goals is to break them into measurable steps, build consistent habits, and ground your progress in supportive accountability. Many professionals begin a new year—or a major life transition—wondering how to achieve career goals in a real and sustainable way. Although motivation…

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Disrupting Unconscious Bias in the Workplace: How to Identify, Interrupt, and Prevent It

Unconscious bias in the workplace is automatic, unintentional judgment that influences decisions about people and groups. You can’t fully stop bias from activating, but you can prevent stereotype application in hiring, reviews, and daily management by naming common bias types, spotting triggers (task, numbers, clarity, perceiver), and installing repeatable “bias interrupters” like structured interviews, calibrated rubrics, and manager coaching. What…

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How to Build a Strong Professional Pitch: Your Guide to Crafting a Memorable Professional Narrative

How to Build a Strong Professional Pitch: The Basics By Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD A Department of Labor survey indicated that more than 50% of jobs are obtained via networking, while only about 5% of jobs come from the open job market of online job listings. I share this fact with many clients, yet networking remains one of the most resisted…

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How to Help Your DEI and Anti-Racist Champions Heal & Find Joy

DEI Leadership • Wellbeing • Inclusion Strategy By Richard Orbé-Austin, PhD • October 24, 2025 • Updated October 24, 2025 Summary Supporting DEI champions year-round means treating inclusion work as mission-critical: fund it, coach its leaders, create confidential healing spaces, measure progress, and celebrate wins regularly—not only during heritage months. Provide DEI leadership coaching, ongoing community support groups, paid recovery… Read More →

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Career Advancement: Fall Planning for Job Search Success & Promotions

Featured Summary: Fall is the ideal time to reset your career goals. By updating your résumé, strengthening your online presence, reconnecting with your network, and committing to a fall career plan, you can accelerate your job search and position yourself for promotion or transition. As Labor Day signals the unofficial end of summer, the fall season brings a unique opportunity…