| Happy New Year from Living Vicky! |
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Upcoming Events
Save the Date!
2014 is off to an exciting start, with many opportunities to engage in mentoring, learning, sharing, and more:
- Tuesday, March 11 - Entrepreneurship workshop - meet women, from all generations, who've started their own businesses - and hear how they did it
- Saturday, March 15 - Living Vicky's First Birthday Celebration
- Coming soon - "Building a Resume that Lands an Interview" & "Having an Interview that Land a Job"
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Career Resolutions
It's a new year, and a great opportunity to start good habits that will prepare you for the next 12 months:
- Write out your own self-assessment to take stock of how your year went. If your organization has a template, use that. Be candid about what worked and what didn't.
- Create a list of goals for the next year, include taking classes or securing a mentor for the areas that need improvement
- Review your self-assessment and goals with your mentor
- If you don't have a mentor - find one! More tips below
- Create a folder for kudos - whenever you receive an email or letter commending you for your contributions, file it so you can refer to it during your next year's assessment
- Create another folder for project specifics and goals achieved - not only will this help you with you next assessment, but it helps you to build a better resume
- Update your resume and online profiles, like Linked In using the following examples:
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Remove Glittering Generalities
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Add Empirical Evidence
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| Delivered ABC Project successfully and saved lots of operating costs |
Delivered project ahead of schedule and reduced operating costs by 22% on a $200,000 budget |
| Provided timely and thorough administrative support to Vice President |
Prepared 12 presentations for monthly stakeholder meetings which included profit & loss statements, and future projections through FY15Q1
Collaborated with Finance team to improve invoicing processes, improving efficiency by 5 days each month
Successfully researched, booked, and expensed 9 international trips for Vice President |
| Handled complex HR administration for all direct reports |
Managed the careers of 8 direct reports, including the successful promotion of 2 staff last quarter |
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Find a Mentor!
..and it's okay to have more than one
If you're already employed, approach someone within the firm who will be able to provide you perspective on the organization.
Ask for a brief meeting, and outline a specific and reasonable goal you would like to achieve with their help.
Pay attention to feedback others are giving you - constructive criticism is an especially good place to start.
If you're in the job market, connect with someone, not to get a job, but rather, to help you understand what to look for and expect during your search.
There are lots of resources for finding mentors - find one that best suits what you're looking for in a coach.
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Video, Interviews, and YouTube - oh my!
Living Vicky is branching into PSAs
To provide online insight into all that Living Vicky has to offer, production has begun on public service announcements. Alexis is a High School student, passionately interested in film. We spent last Sunday interviewing complete strangers about communications with Millennials. Watch this space for more details!
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