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Get Connected

A significant number of young black professionals will spend the early stages of their careers in cities that don’t have a large number of black professionals – especially if you’re in a competitive industry where making your way to black Meccas such as Atlanta and D.C. can take years.
But too often, YBPs spend those years [...]

20Apr2007 | Eugene | 12 comments | Continued
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2007 Entrepreneurs Conference

Black Enterprise announced that its 2007 Entrepreneurs Conference and Expo hosted by General Motors will be May 9-12, 2007 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. This conference is the nation’s largest gathering of African American Entrepreneurs, Corporate Executives, and decision makers. The Expo will be four days of business, motivational, and leadership seminars designed to empower [...]

16Apr2007 | Kimberly | 1 comment | Continued
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YBPs: The Advanced Degree Chasers

Kanye can joke all he wants about how our degrees will keep us warm at night, but on the serious tip, an advanced degree can increase your income by $20K. We’ve recently posted on whether having an M.B.A. makes you a better entrepreneur and the arguments were poignant on both sides of the discussion. The [...]

12Apr2007 | Kimberly | 14 comments | Continued
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Top Jobs for the Young and the Restless

Research by Money Magazine and Salary.com revealed the top 20 jobs for professionals who have been in the job long enough to know what they want: more pay, more upside and more control over where they’re going. Here are of few of the top picks:

Product/Brand Manager
Staff Nurse (RN)
Property Manager
Public Accountant
Information Technology Generalist
Engineer I
Engineer I: [...]

4Apr2007 | Kimberly | 1 comment | Continued
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growing up technologically inclined

i grew up with people staring at me. no, it wasn’t some giant protrusion on my face that caused them to stare. most days, many of my friends and teachers were amazed that a young kid, a black kid at that, was ‘technologically inclined’. i honestly never thought much about it. i liked things that [...]

3Apr2007 | Fredric | 4 comments | Continued
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Do M.B.A.s Make Better Entrepreneurs?

2007 Small Business Outlook
Forbes Magazine
It’s one thing to learn how to crunch numbers for an investment bank, quite another to start the next Microsoft, Google or even a decent restaurant.
Small businesses account for a little over half the output of the U.S. economy. If trade and productivity are an economy’s twin engines of growth, entrepreneurship [...]

31Mar2007 | Tambra | 11 comments | Continued
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How to avoid too much information

How many personal calendars, desktop to-do lists, and planners do you have? I’m all for organization, and use many methods of keeping track of important dates and events. But do we really need to know all of this info right now? Tracking too much information can waste our time and reduce our productivity. Consistently getting [...]

24Mar2007 | Kimberly | 1 comment | Continued
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Are you getting interviews but not job offers?

Do you find yourself wondering what you are doing wrong?
If so, this webinar is for you! WorkforNonprofits.org will teach you how to nail the interview and get the job offer with strategic interviewing!
There’s more to interviewing than just answering questions. Employers want to hire the “right” person for the job and to be seen as [...]

17Mar2007 | Tambra | 2 comments | Continued
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getting a new job 2.0: simplyhired

the 2.0 version of the web we are currently seeing has yielded an explosion of job boards on many popular websites. the idea is that a blog, in an attempt to increase its readership and retain its fan base, will add content that will help the user. this, in fact, is one of the [...]

16Mar2007 | Fredric | 6 comments | Continued
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