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I Never Presented My Career Walking Deck. It Still Helped Me Land an Offer Beyond My Salary Expectations.
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Ellen Vuong was laid off in December. She kept hitting a wall at the interview stage. With the help of a Career Walking Deck, she ended up with an offer that exceeded her salary expectations 🎉 To help and inspire fellow job seekers to build a Career Walking Deck, she…
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Part 2: Don’t Wait for Layoffs to Build Your Plan B
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In my last blog post, we went through Nelson’s retirement planning tips. Below is Part 2 about building your Plan B, in Nelson’s own words. Looking back, I don’t think financial independence came from doing anything extraordinary. It came from understanding one simple idea early enough: Compounding applies to more…
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Part 1: Here’s 5 Ways to Prepare for Retirement Now
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If you think retirement is a later problem, you’re mistaken! Regardless of how early you are in your career, it’s important to set up a system that will help you achieve financial freedom. Why? Because you probably don’t want to work a 9-5 job for a few more decades. Because…
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Microsoft Ignite 2025 Highlights
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This was the first year that I got to attend Microsoft Ignite and it was a blast 💥 As an employee creator, I had the unique opportunity to peak behind-the-scenes, shoot a bunch of content, and lead the VIP Creator Tours for our external creators! Find all my social posts…
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From Google to Meta with a Career Walking Deck
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Zuri recently landed a job at Meta 🎉 While he did not use his career walking deck in the interviews, he shared it in his follow up emails to the recruiter, hiring manager, and interviewers. His biggest challenge as a job seeker was transitioning disciplines from Social Media Marketing to…
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Landing a Mid-Level Promotion with a Career Walking Deck
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Brenda Mao recently landed a mid-level promotion as an Alumni Engagement Officer at the University of British Columbia 🎉 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 a mid-level role opened up on…
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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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Why your resume isn’t enough (what to use instead)
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I had the great honour of being featured on former Amazon VP Ethan Evans’ Level Up newsletter last month and it has led to a LOT of interest in career walking decks 🎉 You can read the full guest post on Substack 👉🏼 kkarenism.com/levelup 👈 What former Amazon VP Ethan…
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Former teacher lands HR job with career walking deck
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Today, I am really excited to share a success story from my friend Jean-Luc Ong, who used to be a teacher, on landing his recent job as a Talent Analyst with a career walking deck. The career walking deck helped me get my job as a Talent Analyst [It] made…
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Making the Move: Kinesiology to Microsoft Software Development & Product Management
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You can always pivot when you’ve reached a point where you’re feeling stuck or like you’re not learning as much. It just takes time, patience, and process. Cherita Ousley’s story is a powerful reminder that your career path doesn’t have to be linear to be successful. She started off her…
