Keep Your Skills Up, Don’t Rely on Your Manager to Do This
Jobs can come and go at any time and for any reason, and this is the unfortunate reality of living in a country in which the majority of states have right-to-work laws (essentially meaning your employment can end at anytime for any reason so long as it's no discriminatory). But, what does this mean for you?
Don’t Just Settle for a Mentor, Look for a Sponsor
During a leadership panel comprised of successful entrepreneurs, the moderator asked, “What is the best piece of advice you received?”
Working When Sick
A cold, the flu, the sniffles, are the gross parts of working with other humans. They are the modern-day office form of Thanos: * Finger Snaps * they are “Inevitableeeeee”.
Watch for These Six Red Flags During Your Interview
Red flags. Oh, how I wish I learned how to spot them early in my career during the hiring process, and, even more importantly, had the courage to run away from them! But as with most things, learning comes from experience and this takes years of trial and error.
The 'I' in Team: 5 Ways to Spot Non-Team Players
A lookout for these traits will help you have a better grasp of who is who on your team and help you either sieve out the bad apples or strengthen your team with team-building skills.
Make LinkedIn Work for You: A Mini Guide to Effectively Use LinkedIn
Some people don’t feel the need for a LinkedIn account and mistakenly believe that LinkedIn is for “professionals” (i.e. not for blue-collar work or students), or they assume LinkedIn is just a fancier version of Facebook.
How to Overcome or Deal with Lack of Focus
There are ways to overcome the feeling that comes with not being focused but it takes practice, consistency, and effort to sharpen it.
Step by Step Guide for Putting Yourself First in Your Career
A wise old sage once said, “People don’t quit companies, they quit managers.” This is perhaps one of the most truthful sayings about the workplace. Working with someone you fantasize about throwing in front of a train makes your life miserable but working for a manager that elicits the same feelings can be the stuff of nightmares!
What I Learned from The Worst Manager I've Ever Worked With
A wise old sage once said, “People don’t quit companies, they quit managers.” This is perhaps one of the most truthful sayings about the workplace. Working with someone you fantasize about throwing in front of a train makes your life miserable but working for a manager that elicits the same feelings can be the stuff of nightmares!
Blackness and the Workplace
Whenever I’m accused of being defensive, I take a step back to reflect on the situation to avoid detonation and even try to moderate my tone in hope my message comes through clearer. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Either way, I’m working in a minefield.
The Disloyal Employee
When it comes to recruiting and human resources (two sides of the same coin), as a professional recruiter, I can honestly say that the hiring process is a broken process.
The Working Girl: 5 Tips Every Corporate Black Girl Should Know
We partnered with the team behind The Working Girl to give the black women in the corporate world some advice to help you keep pushing despite the obstacles.
Keep Those Receipts!
Back in October of 2018, I wrote a brief post on Facebook about why I agreed with Omarosa’s practice of keeping receipts and why black women especially must always be diligent when it comes to protecting ourselves in the workplace.
Guide to Making Friends at Work
In school, my mom would tell me, “I send you to school to learn, not to make friends”…
Colorism: Skin Tone Affecting Job Opportunities
These are a few of things that everyone thinks about the night before they walk into a room of people that can define their financial fate. But one thing that black women may think about, more than others, is not just their job credentials and what they can bring to the table, but their looks--mostly their skin color.
If You’re so Good at Your Job and You’re Still Replaced, Then What?: My Reminder to Prioritize Financial Independence
This incident reminded me that when it comes to a job, no one cares about your qualifications or dedication to the organization. There are rules and procedures to be adhered to, and if you step outside of those, your employer holds the power to end your livelihood in a matter of days—or less.
Salary Negotiation as a Black Woman in Corporate America
As Black women, we are conditioned to believe that anything we receive beyond the bare minimum is a blessing. We are not taught our true value and are not taught to require that everyone we interact with treat us as though they recognize that value.
How to Get Your Focus Back at Work
The burnout affects us all. It happened to me. I was at a company where I loved my boss but the work was limiting.
5 Reasons Why People Don’t Negotiate Their Salary
Not enough people negotiate their salary; maybe because it's not explicitly a part of the on-boarding process. Most often, employers don’t mention it, but you can. After following Your Corporate Black Girl, I found confidence in just “asking” for a salary increase.
Symone Sanders Addresses the Issues and Confidence of Black Professionals
Symone D. Sanders is a political commentator for CNN and was the topic for discussion when she received a message from a follower who criticized her for wearing long nails on television, especially on a popular and global news network.