What’s Next in Your Upwardly Mobile Career?
Here are five tips to help you decide what your next stop will be on this career train.
Career
Balance Your Work and Life With Small Changes
Make smart, strategic, purposeful decisions to balance life, family, and work. It is a huge balancing act that takes some time to fully adjust. It will never be perfect and understand good enough may be the best answer sometimes.
4 Steps to Win Awards
Winning an award is a prestigious career highlight and bragging point that you and/or your team should share with pride. We at GovLoop are proud to announce that we recently won Bronze in the Chief Learning Officer’s 2015 Learning in Practice Award for Excellence in Social Learning. **brushes shoulders off** But this post isn’t aboutRead… Read more »
Prepping for a Debt Ceiling Showdown
To arm you with information, here’s what you need to know about this year’s debt ceiling deadline.
The Foundations of Leadership Succession Planning
To prepare new leaders and create a talent pipeline, agencies can take a strategic approach that begins long before leaders make their exit. A strong succession plan leverages reliable information about workers’ strengths, career ambitions and potential to prepare the next generation of leaders in anticipation of workforce changes.
All the World’s a Stage- Public Speaking Tips (Act II)
Last week, in the first blog of this two-part series, I discussed how theater experience helped with public speaking in my professional journey and how some of the lessons I learned could be applied to a career in the public sector. This week, let’s discuss some concrete ideas that you can practice next time youRead… Read more »
The Journey of a Millennial Federal Government Employee
Here are some of the lessons I learned on my path into federal employment — and some of these lessons likely transcend career fields.
Turn Any Job Into a Career Catapult – Maximize the Detour
Not quite following your professional passion yet? Turn any job into a career catapult, with five simple steps to maximize any career detour.
7 Fun Halloween Costume Ideas Inspired by Government
Halloween is nearly here. Don’t let choosing a Halloween costume scare you. There’s costume inspiration everywhere—including in government.
A Change in the Air
Have you ever considered buying that fancy new media console from IKEA, but after taking a glance at the manual and all the complicated instructions that come along with it, thought twice about it? Some manuals and processes are so complex they prevent us from moving forward with something before we even really get started.Read… Read more »