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Starter tips for developing your personal brand

Published on March 5, 2011 by Marquis in career, professional advice, real life stuff, recruiting

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Recently, I had a great email exchange with one of my college classmates about the role that personal branding can play in one’s career search. She is starting up her own job search and is deciding on how to best present her experiences, qualifications, and interests to new contacts and/or potential employers. This is something about which I’ve thought a lot, so it was like the words just flew through my fingers on this one. I tend to blend the ideas of personal branding, professional branding, networking, and career positioning, which comes out when I give advice on these topics.… Read the rest

Goodbye to a legend — RIP Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

Published on June 25, 2009 by Marquis in real life stuff

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By now, I’m sure all of you have heard about the passing of The King of Pop, Michael Jackson. I was completely SHOCKED when I heard the news this afternoon and I’ve been watching new coverage about it ever since. At first, I didn’t want to believe it because CNN was reporting that he was only in a coma and not dead. But, then the LA Times reported that he’d died and all of the other news services reported the same thing. I’m still stunned by the news and haven’t been able to look away from the news coverage for… Read the rest

Message from a reader describing her comeback from "rejection" and pursuit of work-life balance

Published on June 15, 2009 by Marquis in career, career-life balance, reader feedback, real life stuff, shout outs to me

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What’s going on, y’all. I’m writing this entry with a big smile on my face because today was the second warm day in a row here in Chicago. That may be a weird thing to be happy about, but y’all weren’t here on those days when the temperature was in the -20′s a few months ago. Walking outside and not needing a coat here is amazing. I know that it’ll probably get ridiculously hot soon, but I’m loving the few days of Springtime weather that we’ll see in 2009. Even better, the folks outside just looked happier now that the… Read the rest

Balancing family life and the choice of a career path

Published on June 14, 2009 by Marquis in career-life balance, real life stuff

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Hey there, everyone. I hope you’re all having a great Sunday and are getting some decent rest in before starting another week of work. As for myself, I’m on my way out to check out the Chicago Ribfest to likely eat waaaaay too much and do some major damage to my swole. I’m going to have to hit the gym pretty hard tomorrow to make up for this afternoon. So far, the month of June has been pretty cold and rainy in Chicago, so it’s nice that we have a day in the 70′s and folks are outside in droves.… Read the rest

A couple of interesting articles sent to me by a reader

Published on June 12, 2009 by Marquis in career-life balance, interesting articles, real life stuff

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Hello all. Happy Friday! If any of you have been grindin’ hard like I have lately, I bet you’re really looking forward to the weekend. I’ve been doing so much traveling lately that I haven’t had a chance to rest, so this weekend will probably involve a whole lot of doing NOTHING…gotta love it, right?

As a nice way to start off the weekend, I’m posting a couple articles about real life stuff that I thought might interest some of you. One is all about following one’s passion into a career path and the other is about living a much… Read the rest

Response to some constructive feedback from a reader

Published on May 20, 2009 by Marquis in About Marquis, Reader comments, reader feedback, Reader follow-up, real life stuff

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Hello all, I hope you had a nice evening and have started off your day well. As you know, I regularly read comments that my readers post on my site and take time to consider all feedback that I receive. This entry is to respond to some feedback that came in and sparked some thoughts. It came in as a posted comment rather than an email, so posting an entry was the only way that I could respond. Here’s the story…

One of my readers who goes by the handle “ConsultantGirl” left the following comment on a recent blog entry … Read the rest

Never get too busy making a living that you forget to make a life

Published on April 22, 2009 by Marquis in About Marquis, career, Random categories, real life stuff

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Hey there, folk. As you can probably tell, I’ve been doing a lot of introspection in the past few weeks since the passing of my aunt and, along with that, I’ve been writing a lot more about what’s going on in my head nowadays. Well, that trend will continue with this entry, so, if you were hoping to see any entry with me answering a reader email message, then you might as well stop reading now

By now, you’ve all probably heard about the suicide of Freddie Mac’s CFO David Kellerman via some news outlet (CNN.com story… Read the rest).

Detailed walk-through of the BIG wedding weekend in India (but I didn’t write it myself)

Published on March 18, 2009 by Marquis in Random categories, vacation

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For the past two weeks, my mother has been on me to write up a description of my trip to India, but I’ve been ridiculously busy in the two weeks since my return. Basically, my trip was split into two parts. The first was five days of sight-seeing and bouncing around a few cities with five other people to get the lay of the land. The second part was four days of wedding celebration activities in Jaipur for two of my MBA classmates (Nandini and Peter), which ended up being the most BIG-BALLER experience of my life. There was so… Read the rest