9 Lives for Women Blog

During one of my many daily tours through Linkedin (a place where any woman looking to return to work should be, too), I noticed a headline: “Personable and Organized Woman Returning to Workforce”. That headline stopped me cold. (The headline, you probably know, is like the title of your Linkedin profile—the first thing that potential employers…

If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to “find a new job”, your gusto for the task may be waning as the weeks progress. It’s definitely not easy to find a new job–whether you’re currently working, scrambling for a job after a layoff or returning to the workforce after many years. But it also…

For working women at all ages and stages, the stress of growing friendships, family and career can often cause a deficiency of what I call “Vitamin C” or Confidence. To get ahead without leaving your best self behind, here are 15 healthy doses of Vitamin “C” for 2015:  ADMIT WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE IT ALL…

At 9 Lives for Women I talk a lot about the fact that women of all ages often need an extra dose of what I call “Vitamin C” or Confidence. No matter how many A’s you got in college, the first job search process can be a confidence-sapping experience. To ward off any insecurities, here…

Is your job search at a standstill? Time to make sure you’re dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s.  Even senior-level job seekers tend to overlook the basics–and blame the job market rather than their own job search approach.  Here are the 80 best pounding the pavement tips from 9 Lives for Women…

So much of what is written in the Harvard Business Review article, “Rethink What You ‘Know’ About High Achieving Women” rings true. But I just don’t buy the major statement that “women who left their jobs after having children did so because they found themselves…