Interview with Lisa Shea Mullins
Lisa Shea Mullins is a lady on the move! If you haven’t heard of her, yet, take note because she’s getting ready to leave her footprints all over the nation! She recently followed her passions to create Lisa Shea’ Custom Shoes and her life has been one blessing after another. OnyxLouisville (OL): How did this [...]
Tips on Maintaining a Healthy Computer
Tips on Maintaining a Healthy Computer By Andre’ Gilkey In this week’s edition of the Onyx Newsletter, I was tasked to provide an article relating on something most of us use every day: a computer. Most of us live on them, but sometimes they can give us grief when the unexpected happens, such as crashing [...]
Brace, Boast Believe- ABCs Stagnate Careers
As we continue our series on stagnate careers, after reading I hope you will be encouraged to keep your head up and fight another day. I would also encourage you to read a great book titled: Emotional Bailout by Cathy Holloway Hill. Cathy is a Life Skills trainer that has experienced the world of corporate [...]
Building Blocks for Stagnate Careers
So I feel like we are in this day and age where either you are in a job/career that has become stagnate or you are fresh out of college putting in 100 apps a day and getting nowhere. Very easy to get discouraged and put on the auto-pilot, right? Well we have to conquer that. [...]
Stand Out without Selling Out
We have all be in a situation where you have landed a career that you have worked hard for but are being labeled as the token. Your colleagues and company leaders may say you only got the job because the company is looking to hike up their presence in diversity. Whatever the case, first [...]
The Career Fair is Over, Now What?
The fat lady has sung you now have twenty less resumes than you did when you walked in the door and a card holder full of potential business relationships. So now what? Here are a few quick tips to get you started. Make a recap journal Description: Recap journal has each company (either alphabetical or [...]
Five Ways to Lose at Career Fair
Career Fairs serve many purposes. These are great places to network, spring board into a career, gain internships, set up informational interviews, or gain insights. The challenging thing about career fairs is you are there with a room full of your peers that are there for that exact same purpose and you don’t know what [...]
15 Questions to Ask At Career Fairs
Its game time: you’re looking good, smelling good, and feeling good. But what feels better than just a nice suit? Confidence! With confidence requires knowledge. Before you start asking questions, learn your industry! Need help on your research? Check out my latest article: Researching Companies at Career Fairs. The economy and world is constantly evolving. [...]
Career Fair Do’s and Dont’s: Research Tips
I’m sitting there with a group of girlfriends all dressed up and we’re talking about what a bust the career fair was. We clean up our area in the SAC, say our farewell exchanges, and I walk away upset that I wasted three good squirts of Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, trot back to my [...]
Six Tips Work-Life Balance
In this day and time work- life balance in your work environment is necessary. More and more companies are downsizing and adding more responsibilities. Not to mention, we are in a far more competitive work environment than before. Work-life balance is needed because you need to be 100% for your family and you’re no value [...]