By Alyssa Gelbard, Founder and President of Resume Strategists Inc. Phone interviews are quite common for first round and subsequent interviews, so it is important that you are well-prepared to handle them. The key to acing a phone interview is to treat it as if it were an in-person conversation and prepare for [...]
If you're facing a tough decision, your own inner wisdom might be as good as anyone else's advice! How To Be Your Own Mentor By Laura Vanderkam Having trouble finding the right mentor? Here’s an idea you might not have tried: tapping your own wisdom. In her 2014 book, Playing Big, coach and speaker Tara [...]
Welcome! Join the League for FREE Today! The League of Women in Government (LWG) was created to serve as the umbrella organization to support local and statewide organizations that advance women in local government leadership. We want to move the needle forward on the number of women serving at the most senior and executive levels [...]
Amber Cameron on Are YOU Selling Yourself Short on Salary Negotiations? By Amber Cameron, Strategic Operations Manager – City of Palo Alto, CA “Is it too greedy?” my friend asks. “Absolutely not! You deserve to be paid your value, besides you need to buck this trend of women shying away from negotiating,” I advise. I’ve had [...]
Let's Get Our Own House in Order By Theodore Staton - City Manager, Upper Arlington, OH Last week, I was on a panel at the Ohio Municipal League conference on the value and benefits of adopting the council-manager form of government. While sitting with my fellow panelists, I reflected that the entire panel was comprised of [...]
Making the Most of YOUR Conference Experience Are you headed to the ICMA Conference in San Antonio, your state association meeting or regional luncheon? Regardless of where you are headed, you'll want to make the most of your time and your organization's investment in you while you attend the event. But how do you get the [...]
Career Development Infographic: Which stage are you in??? Reprinted from Business Insider/Aol Jobs.com By Mariya Pylayev Do you recognize yourself? Is age a stage? Do you think there are seven or eight stages of career development? Review the infographic and tell us where you fall in the comments at the bottom!
How hiring a gender-diverse workforce can improve a company's bottom line Reprinted from Gallup.com By Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal Gender diversity is vital to any workplace. Not just because it's a laudable goal; it simply makes bottom-line business sense. If you need proof, look no further than a recent Gallup study, which finds that hiring a [...]
Reprinted from: LeanIn.org By: Stephanie Taylor Christensen (This is the final segment in a ten part series from LeanIn.org) Lesson #10: YOU DISAGREED WITH YOUR BOSS—IN THE OPEN Let’s say your manager invites you to share a project’s findings at a meeting attended by lots of company bigwigs. Your presentation goes off without a hitch: The attendees [...]