Word: career
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy virtuosity. The womanly throatiness can break, like a child's heart, three or four times in a single syllable. While the lyrics suggest teasing foreplay, the voice is sage, reflective, postcoital. Settling in Texas, Willis found more than her voice; she found a style to build a sturdy career on. What she deserves is what she gives here: the downhome best...
...early 1990s and the blitzkrieg arrival of the New Economy, millions of Americans have come to realize that they are not going to spend their life working for just one, two or even three different employers. In fact, the average number of job changes in a professional career is now hovering between eight and 10, and half of them are made by age 40, says John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago outplacement firm. And, of course, there is that all-important first job, as Kim's search suggests...
...know is even more pertinent in a fast-moving, fluid economy. While Internetworking is about to become the wave of the future, even tried-and-true methods of touching base and gathering tips are useful--and perhaps even essential. There are no hard data on the networking phenomenon, but career consultants and outplacement specialists estimate that as many as 70% to 80% of the best jobs come from effective, consistent networking, as opposed to using headhunters, blind resume mailings and job ads. At the Harvard Business School, for example, 80% of alumni find jobs via networking, says Bob Gardella, assistant...
...that, the job is as much art as science. "It's six degrees of separation. Within six people, you will probably meet someone who knows somebody that you know who can have a profound influence on your career," says Eva Wisnik, president of Wisnik Career Strategies, a New York City career consultancy. Adds Challenger: "Make up a list of the 25 people in your industry or your town whom you would want to work for and try to find the contacts who will get you to these people." Some other tips...
...GIVE YOURSELF TIME If you are looking for a lower management position, it can take up to about six months of consistent networking on average to find the position you want, says Deborah Arron, a Seattle career consultant. A middle-management job could take up to one year, and an upper-management position could involve a two-year networking crusade...