Cutting Edge Career Advice
— Since 2009 —
Career Enlightenment is the award-winning career blog started by the author of “Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies”, Joshua Waldman.
How to Set Yourself Apart from the Competition in an Interview
Job hunting isn’t easy and the interview process can be exhausting, especially after going to multiple interviews and not getting any call-backs. It’s a typical story, unfortunately, particularly if the field you’ve chosen to work in is highly competitive and many...
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Four Ways to Take Your Legal Career to the Next Level
When you first pass the bar, you tend to be dealing with basic issues such as drafting legal documents, billing clients correctly, and following the instructions of your supervising attorney. Initially, these issues can be enough of a struggle, but after a while, you...
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Top Four Ways to Prove Yourself Invaluable to Your Company
It can be difficult to make a name for yourself within your new company. You are the new kid, and many people around you have high seniority. Even if you do have a good idea, you might be shot down because you are not yet familiar with how the company works and how...
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Website Tips For Aspiring Engineers
If you are an aspiring engineer, then you will need to do everything that you can to make people aware of your abilities. Engineering can be a terrific industry to work in, but it is also one which is highly competitive, and it can be hard to get your foot in the door...
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3 Tips for Making It as a Woman in the Finance Industry
According to a CNBC article from July 2018, women account for only about 17% of leaders in investment banking and only about 18% of employees overall. The reason? A survey of 1,000 men and women indicated that women see bias men don't in the industry, leading them to...
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2 Ways to Boost Your Career with Online Branding
Personal branding is at the cornerstone of career success. At every stage, front entry-level to CEO, those that make the final employment decisions are looking for applicants that brand themselves in a certain way. In this day and age, this kind of screening takes...
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Investing In CyberSecurity: What To Know
There’s a popular misconception that cybercrime is something that happens to large companies with high turnovers. In reality, that’s simply not the case. Cybercrime can affect businesses of any size from sole traders and small supply chain businesses to international...
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