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Articles

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    Cultivating Confidence
    How to Take Your Own Professional Headshot

    From LinkedIn to portfolio sites, a headshot is everything. Here's how to hack the system and take your own.

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    Cultivating Confidence
    I Walked into an Interview with No Elevator Pitch—Here's What Happened

    Whether it's an elevator pitch or a personal pitch, you need to know yours ASAP. Here's how to effectively market and sell who you are and what you do.

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    Cultivating Confidence
    10 Ways To Build Your Personal Brand

    You know you need a good "personal brand." But how exactly do you get one? We'll tell you 10 different ways to build a personal brand that is authentic to you.

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    Cultivating Confidence
    Everything You Need To Know About Personal Branding

    Your one-stop resource for personal branding resources.

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    Cultivating Confidence
    The Best Sites to Help You Build Your Personal Brand

    Every woman wants to put her best foot forward in her career, especially in the digital era when social media presence counts as much as your resume.

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    Career Development, Industry Insight, Personal Assessment
    This Is Why You Should Write a Career Mantra

    The 10-minute exercise that's better than a resolution.

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    Cultivating Confidence
    5 Reasons Why You Need a Professional Headshot

    Headshots aren’t just for members of the C-Suite anymore. Showcase your professionalism, both inside and out, with a winning professional photo.

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    Budget, Cultivating Confidence
    How to Build a Beautiful Website (on a Budget)

    Using Squarespace and Unsplash, you can build a beautiful website for your own portfolio, business, or personal needs without breaking the bank.

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    Cultivating Confidence
    We Put Together a Massive E-Guide on Crafting an Epic Personal Brand

    A comprehensive, straight-forward, grab-and-go manual for creating—and maintaining—your personal brand.

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    Cultivating Confidence, Goal-Setting, Job Search Strategies, Resumes
    5 Ways to Avoid Slacking on Your Career This Summer

    Slower days do not equal slower growth.

Interviews

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    Advertising
    Elisa Cool, Contently, VP of Brand Development

    Contently VP, Elisa Cool, shares how she landed a job at a content startup that helps brands tell great stories.

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    Art + Creative
    An Interview With Cleo Murnane, Founder and Creative Director of Project M Plus

    Meet Cleo Murnane, Co-Owner & Creative Director for Project M Plus, a firm helping companies with branding, packaging and website design.

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    Entertainment
    An Interview With the Director of Talent Brand Strategy & Events at Pandora

    Check out one of the coolest jobs at Pandora and see how you can land it too.

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    Communications + Public Relations
    An Interview With Joanna Riedl on Staying Innovative in the World of Public Relations

    Joanna shares how she successfully created her own tech PR company and landed clients like Poshmark.

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    Communications + Public Relations
    An Interview With Jenna Greene, Brand Strategist and Account Executive at CK&D

    Thanks to unexpected connections in a cause marketing class at UCLA, Jenna learned about opportunities at CK&D, a media group that leverages entertainment industry relationships to bolster support for social responsibility issues.

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    Career Success
    Build Your Brand Guide

    Personal branding isn't easy, but it's also everything. In fact, it can make or break an opportunity whether that's landing a job interview or new client. One of the most common questions we get at Career Contessa is: how do I brand myself the right way, so I can do the work that I want to do? That's why we decided to finally sit down and write an all-inclusive guide that will rid you of all the head-scratching, "Where do I start?" anxiety and put you straight into "Yeah, I've got this" beast mode. Trust us, there's something for everyone, whether you're starting at square one or have been working on this for years. Not a bad deal, right?