5 Tips for New Feds – Laying the Groundwork in Your First Year
The public sector can be daunting. Amidst the sea of new information, here are five tips to help new feds navigate their first year in public service.
Career
10 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Getting a Federal Job
Read these ten tips about the best way to stick out and land a federal job.
Childhood Lessons Still Applicable to Our Professional World
Although we can’t return to our days of childhood, we can choose to be mindful and strive to use the values and life lessons taught during childhood that will assist us in being successful in our current professional world.
How to Stop Over-Apologizing
A lot of people find it difficult to say, “I’m sorry.” However, women tend to overuse the phrase, especially in workplace communication. Here are a few ways to stop over-apologizing.
3 Easy Ways to Improve Office Productivity
These are three easy tips to boost office productivity when focusing on the details means you lose sight of the bigger picture.
4 Fatal Career Don’ts You’re Still Doing
If you’re still making these fatal career don’ts, you’re shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to your career and professional development.
Tips for Navigating Your Office’s Dress Code
Even if you’re not a journalist on the Hill beat, you may very well find yourself in a situation where you just aren’t sure what’s considered “appropriate”. So how do you figure out what to wear? We suggest these three tips that can help you determine for yourself what’s best to wear at the office.
To Procrastinate or Not to Procrastinate: You Decide
As the holidays roll around, it is easy to get lost in time. The fear of missing out (FOMO) may be the companion to the sneaky thief we call procrastination. Read on to find out how.
Federal CIOs Define What It Means to Have a Seat at the Table
Federal CIO Suzette Kent and CIOs at Education, Transportation and the Agriculture departments share what skillsets are required for today’s tech leaders.
How to Balance the Personal and Professional
How do we navigate blurred lines between taking it personally and professionally? The answer is to be human, stay engaged, take your work seriously, but don’t do it to the point where it becomes impossible to work through your feelings.