Plan Your Career by Julie Desmond

Julie Desmond is Talent Manager for Express Employment Professionals. Write to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Wiggle Room: Why employers pay what they pay

Thursday, 20 December 2012 10:07 Julie Desmond

Is there any wiggle room in the salary? Can they go any higher on the pay? Will they bend at all on the dollar amount? Not surprisingly, people considering accepting a job offer commonly ask for “a little more.” Some people think they have to. They want to tell their friends and former colleagues about their negotiating prowess and to feel the power that seems to come with starting a new job on one’s own terms.

Tweet Better

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:14 Julie Desmond

140 characters. Can every thought be drilled down to just 140 letters, numbers, hashtags and spaces? Can a really important or impactful idea be brought across in 140 keystrokes or less? Yes. Friendships have been made, businesses have been developed and national revolutions have been launched on Twitter. While many (most?) people have caught on to how to tweet generally, taking it to a more useful level is another story.

Don’t Practice Interviewing

Wednesday, 05 December 2012 10:29 Julie Desmond

Correction: DO practice interviewing. But don’t wait until opening night to stage a dress rehearsal. If you are looking for a promotion, interviewing for a new job or making a sales call, act like your presentation makes a difference, because it does. And because it does, when you are in the hot seat, interviewing for the job you really want, you want to be ready. So you have to practice. But don’t practice interviewing during that critical interview. By the time you get to the big stage, your side of the conversation should be so well rehearsed that it seems totally off the cuff to the person across the table.

Selective Generosity: You get (exactly) what you ask for

Friday, 30 November 2012 10:07 Julie Desmond

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The Squeaky Wheel: Stand out while standing up for what matters

Thursday, 29 November 2012 13:38 Julie Desmond

You arrive at work thinking you have an opinion, and by the end of the day you have caved under corporate mandates, internal emails, office politics and red tape into an agreeable, agreeing drone, spinning through another week on the corporate hamster wheel.

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