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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Most people get jobs from their network, not from a career center. And social media is the fastest, most effective way for you to build a network. It used to be that people only did writing and critical thinking for school. So they needed school to teach them communication skills and critical thinking skills.

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How to hit a wall at work, with grace | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

If hospitals in NYC did this, there would be a run on grilled cheese ingredients all over the city. And I could not think. Write about how to find autonomy at work, about the farmer, about how to network and build a community. So it was bad enough that they gave me vicodin. They gave me 20. Right here in Madison. Write more.

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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

Penelope Trunk

My company, Brazen Careerist , just launched a company section in our social network. And Jeremy Owyang, from Forrester Research reports that, "In approximately two years social networks will be more powerful than corporate web sites. Depends on the line of work (police, hospital, fire brigade?). It's a Safari bug.

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