Author: Karen K. Ngo
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How to Land a Senior Technical Promotion Using a Career Walking Deck
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Christine Lee earned a promotion to a more senior, technical role in a large IT department where promotions are competitive 🎉 To help and inspire fellow job seekers to build a career walking deck, she has shared her personal experience (in her own words) below: When I started preparing for…
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My journey from Microsoft to Salesforce with the Career Walking Deck
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Alexander Holomozyi recently landed a job at Salesforce as a Senior Enterprise Account Executive 🎉 To help and inspire fellow job seekers to build a career walking deck, he has shared his personal experience (in his own words) below: When you’re building your career at a large company like Microsoft,…
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5 Ways to Make Conscious Career Choices
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Growing up, we’re told to work hard, get a job, and climb the corporate ladder while being happy and fulfilled in our personal lives. It sounds simple, but it really isn’t! In a world of many distractions and disillusions of what success looks like, many of us struggle to make…
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Find Your Next Job With These 3 Easy Steps
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Happy New Year! Thank you so much for checking out this blog as you navigate your careers during this crazy time in the world. This all started in university with the goal of sharing my learnings from career conversations with C-Suite executives, mentors, and advisors to help my friends and…
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Making the Move: Chemical Engineer to Chief of Staff at Microsoft
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The Making the Move series strives to inspire those who come from different (non-tech) backgrounds and want to break into the world of tech. Here’s a secret… You don’t need to be a computer science or software engineering major! Today, I am sharing the career journey of Nives Stanfelj, who was until…
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My Traumatizing Experience Buying Tickets via StubHub and UPS
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T-2 months 🤔 Earlier this year, I decided that I was going to attend the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC 2022) in Las Vegas. Since I saw that the ticket prices were really high on the official website (mid $400s), I decided to check resale sites out of curiosity. I stumbled…
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How to Properly Ask for a Job Referral
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Over the years, people have asked me to refer them to jobs and hiring managers have also asked me to refer people because they trusted my judgement and eye for great talent. Hence, I take job referrals quite seriously and I’ve also spoken to peers and managers about how they…
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5 Month Life Update: I went to 2 conferences & caught COVID-19
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The month of June was very eventful and exciting! The first week, we had our planning meeting and it was great to see the team come together and enjoy the 2 days in-person. The second week, we had an internal conference with all of the Communications Managers across Microsoft. This…
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Hybrid Work-Life: 6 Ways to Improve Your Health, Time and Energy When You WFH
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I get it. We’re all exhausted. The pandemic has taken a lot from us… our time, energy, hopes, dreams, and plans. We’ve learned that the worst can happen, and can keep happening. But we’ve also learned that when our boundaries and expectations are stretched, we find a way to adapt.…
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First Time Home Buyer’s Guide: Remember These 10 Steps!
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Back in November 2021, I became a first time home owner and co-purchased a bigger home with my Mom and the process of buying my first home was super stressful and complicated. Since it had been so long since my parents had bought a home (we lived in ours for…