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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

When she was a junior in high school, Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health support and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents. Network for her community work with ScholarCHIPS. Cornish is the co-author of It’s Work!

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Creating a Win/Win for Admin and Executive

Office Dynamics

Leverage your administrative team's capabilities by offering a greater variety of challenging tasks that allow them to utilize and expand their unique skill set. They are able to work faster, make fewer mistakes and better utilize their skills to meet the demands of the job. She was previously at Intel from 1995 through 2001.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

Reach out to groups that cater to Black engineers, LGBTQ professionals, Hispanic programmers—whatever skill set you might need. Childs’ task force project was such a resounding success that the company created employee networks to broaden the discussion. And if you keep up your skill set, you’re always in demand.” It’s flexible.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

With their technology skills and great social networking abilities, GenY ( born roughly between 1980-2003) previously have found employers willing to meet their expectations. Like the rest of job hunters, Generation Y has found jobs can be tough to come by, even with their skills. But do they (GenY) have less of an attitude?

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

Allwork

There was a group called Ten, the enterprise network in San Jose. And that would be somewhere where you say, I’m having trouble getting my robotics company funded, or I’m really having trouble finding engineers with the right kinds of skills. And it was inspired by a book written about networking at MIT called Venture Cafe.

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Could telecommuting be a career mistake?

On The Job

When he feared he was going to lose his job a couple of years ago, he launched a blog to showcase his communication skills and industry knowledge. Social networking helps, but some people just need to be around other people.” I've been telecommuting full time as a programmer since 2001. October 18, 2009 8:49 PM mike3k said.

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Day in the life: Catherine Thomas, EA, Public Health Wales

Practically Perfect PA

March 2001 saw me heading back to the UK as a single mum with 2 young children and so started my career part 2. Starting the NHS Wales PA Network back in 2007 – we are now up to 473 PAs in the network and it has opened a great many doors for me personally and professionally. What has been your career highlight?

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