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Nov 10, 2014 Five Tips to Getting Your Dream Job Originally published on Women for Hire In her new eBook, Wow Your Way into the Job of Your Dreams, Frances Cole Jones shows job seekers how to take their skills,… Read More
Oct 30, 2014 The Polished Home Professional Originally published on project eve As more and more women start their own businesses and/or take advantage of flex time, the opportunities for home office professionalism to nose dive and/or… Read More
Oct 22, 2014 You Got the Call! Now What??: 3 Quick Wins for an Impromptu Interview For weeks, you’ve been STARING AT YOUR phone like a lovelorn teenager and then, today—just when you’d decided to put your focus elsewhere—you got the call! IT’S INTERVIEW TIME! Below,… Read More
Oct 15, 2014 Forget Being a Leader—Be a Follower (A First Follower) This past weekend I was lucky enough to participate in TEDx Colorado Springs. That talk is not yet available so in the interim I’d love to have you take a… Read More
Oct 8, 2014 “Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself…..”: Rules for Effective Introductions As those of you who read the title of this piece and began humming “Sympathy for the Devil” can attest, with this song Mr. Jagger did an excellent job of… Read More
Sep 26, 2014 Be Cynical about Your Cynicism Like many of you, I read David Brooks’ “Snap Out of It” piece in the New York Times this week http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/opinion/david-brooks-snap-out-of-it.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 with interest.   Whether you agree with some or all… Read More
Sep 17, 2014 “Do Hard Work. Don’t Talk Nonsense.” This past week, I was lucky enough to spend time with my yoga teacher, R. Sharath Jois, during his visit from India to New York City. As those of you… Read More
Sep 10, 2014 Paging Dr. Freud……How Your Inner Psychologist Can Wow Your Audience Hello, hello:   I spent last week coaching like a demon—3 days/8 people a day— and if there was one theme that emerged it was “Nobody cares about you.”   Happily, as… Read More
Aug 20, 2014 “Let Me Know What I Can Do….” Vs. “How Can I Help?” As some of you may know, I got married 2 weeks ago (Yes, it’s true!) and while I did not have a large wedding (3 people attended) or an enormous… Read More
Jun 26, 2014 Not My Circus. Not My Monkeys. Any number of you have written to me in response to last week’s post, “Know When to Walk Away. Know When to Run.” (http://www.francescolejones.com/2014/06/know-when-to-walk-away-know-when-to-run/)  (Thank you!) And while the general… Read More

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