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As I Enter My 60s, Here’s the Advice I Would Give to My Younger Self

Success

I remember one instance when I applied for a communications job and the male interviewer asked if I was pregnant or planning to have children soon. Today, I would have admonished the guy and abruptly ended the interview. I didn’t like being on camera or giving live radio interviews. Skip the master’s degree What?

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Job Fairs May Suck -- But You Can Use Them to Your Advantage

On The Job

Then, the college students -- wearing nice clothes that make them squirm -- start the trek from table to table to table, ready to hand out their resumes. In the meantime, you've got to use every opportunity to get yourself ready for a job interview or networking event that will really help you get a job. A free stress reduction ball!)

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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Eighteen minutes and 17 seconds into DJ Khaled’s Zoom interview with SUCCESS , his voice was briefly drowned out by what sounded like the unmistakable roar of a lion. Those things, of course, make him who he is. They sold clothes out of the trunk of their car. Of course he’s seen people waste their talents. Podcasts. “I

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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Blakely readily admits that she wasn’t the first woman to cut the feet off her pantyhose and wear them under her form-fitting clothes. She worked on her idea at night and on weekends, often skipping dinners, parties and other fun events to research patents and visit clothing manufacturers. And I went, ‘Uh-huh, of course.’

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). A year later, the course ended and it was time to move out. After I interviewed Britney Spears over email—a story that made the cover—I was done.

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How Ice Cream Gave Hap Cameron Purpose & Inspired Him to Open Happy Cones

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Losing his guiding light When he returned to his hometown of Nelson, New Zealand, he was invited to take part in several TV and radio interviews—as well as being featured in several print pieces—to talk about his world travels, and he found himself having to hide the fact that he was depressed.

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Preparing for the Interview

Laughing all the Way to Work

I had an interview at 11, but I was busy with my job, my father was in the hospital and I was trying to arrange an engagement party for my daughter. I just didn’t have time to bring my clothes to the dry cleaner, and worse than that I had an inch of grey roots showing and I hadn't coloured my hair. It ended up I did get the job.