The Importance of Luck in Your Career and How to “Manage” It
Studies have shown that luck happens to be a big factor in success. But rather than leaving everything up to chance, here’s how you can manage luck to advance in your career.
Posts Tagged: Skills
The Right Wrong Turns: Using Unexpected Experience to Catapult Your Career
Don’t miss the chance to learn and grow where you are so you can take a whole litany of skills with you as you advance in your career.
Why You Should Treat Your Job Like an Internship
Perhaps the reason we cling to the “get what you came for” attitude during graduate school (or a post-doctoral stint, or a low-paying internship) is that we need something to get us through the phase where we pay our dues, the phase where the hours are long and the paychecks are small. The incentive to… Read more »
Skills to Pay the Bills
This week’s post shares three essential skills for all govies
Procurement Through Technology – Why Not in Gov?
Implementing something like this is hardly a technical challenge any more. It just needs the agency to make it a priority and get it done.
Soft Skills Learned Outside of the Office
It was October 2010, and I had a crazy morning at work. I was out for a jog on the Trinity Trail during my lunch break when I saw two abandoned, skittish Basset Hounds that would forever change my life. My original plan was to foster these two sweethearts, who we named Hank and Lucy.Read… Read more »
Moving On Up: 5 Secrets From The C-Suite
As we prepare for GovLoop’s first-ever State and Local Innovators Virtual Summit, we and the presenters are posting blogs about many of the sessions and some of the tips they will share. The summit is October 22nd and free for everyone — make sure to register here! We all take different paths to move up andRead… Read more »
5 Soft Skills Your Boss Wishes You Had
You might think that, to your boss, the only thing that matters is checking off all the boxes on your daily to do list. Of course that’s important, but while your job description probably provides an excellent catalog of all the tasks you need to perform on a daily basis, it doesn’t paint a completeRead… Read more »
5 Ways to Develop Those Elusive “Soft Skills”
Your job requires a certain level of technical proficiencies and knowledge – “hard skills” that you’ve learned in school and on-the-job trainings. But how do you develop those harder to define “soft skills” like charisma, active listening, communication skills, time management, and optimism? Soft skills complement your hard skills, and are just as crucial anRead… Read more »
Is HR a Profession?
There is a perception within the federal government that HR offices in most agencies are the place where people are placed when there’s no place else to put them. I have heard over the years that HR is the location where the “problem” people land. It’s often viewed that all HR employees do is processRead… Read more »