The Women of Vision Awards honor women making significant contributions to technology in three categories: Innovation, Leadership and Social impact.
Use the clues of your personality code to find a lifetime of gratifying work and success.
Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart
In this down market, many people were laid off simultaneously, so it is taking longer to find a job. Are there are any special tips when you have been unemployed for several months with no job in sight?
The same basic job search rules apply in an up or down market. However, in a down market, the competition is fiercer, everyone is more anxious, and therefore it can be harder to execute a proactive, thoughtful search. Furthermore, if you have been laid off and have been unemployed for several months, there are specific considerations to take into account: your skills may get stale, your motivation wanes, and unemployment benefits or severance may run out before a new job materializes. Here are some survival tips:
“The real problem is that the proverbial glass ceiling is self-reinforcing. The traits that a woman must develop to duke it out on the trading floor are the same traits that will come back to haunt her as she ascends the ranks of management.”
This is the central thesis behind the extremely well researched and thought-provoking piece about the demise of Zoe Cruz, formerly the highest ranking woman on Wall Street before she was fired from her position as co-president of Morgan Stanley in November 2007, as the company’s exposure to the subprime mortgage crisis began to unfold. At the apex of her career, she was earning over $30 million in 2006, and was considered one of the most powerful women in the world and the company’s CEO heir-apparent.
The article, entitled “Only the Men Survive,” by Joe Hagan, was filled with ‘fly on the wall’ quotes about how high-powered aggressive women like Ms. Cruz are really regarded within their own companies. The quotes from insider sources revealed a startlingly frank and pervasive sexism towards women in finance.
Contributed by Karen Elizaga of www.forwardoptions.com. Karen is a life and career coach for women and girls.
All too often, the achiever/overachiever in us zealously books appointment after appointment and takes on one commitment after another. At work, we feel compelled to be the “go to” woman in hopes that we will make significant career strides and appear to be infallible in the face of multiple and difficult challenges. Unfortunately, our ambitions and desires to excel can take a toll on our health, emotions and personal relationships.
Admittedly a career can be important, and it may be necessary for you to earn a paycheck. However, let’s consider work in the context of the rest of our existence. It can allow us to feel important and necessary and if we consistently deliver superior work, the financial reward may be significant. But should career concerns pervade our entire existence? Definitely not.
A balanced life allows us to recharge and increases both our overall happiness and work productivity. If you are content with your existence outside the office, you can channel that positive energy to fuel an upward career trajectory.
The following are five tips for creating a life in balance. Use them and see how much more satisfied you are in all aspects of your existence – your emotional, physical and intellectual realms.
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The Euromoney Forex Forum is the leading event for the buy side and has specifically been designed to examine the latest market trends and exploit these trends to make money and manage FX risk more effectively.
Contributed by Jacqueline Church
Sorting it Out – Examining Ourselves First
A lot of women wrestling with issues of being a working mom have unwittingly adopted the role model of both their accomplished, career-driven fathers AND their accomplished, stay-at-home mothers. It doesn’t necessarily occur to them until the two things come to a head, usually with a call from the school nurse on the same day as an important client meeting. They desire corporate success, a happy, well-adjusted child, a spotless home and contented spouse. Only most don’t have a stay-at-home wife helping us out. And, increasingly, our partners have both expectations.
What choices are we making about our careers and our personal lives? How have we anticipated or planned for the natural arc of both, as well as their inevitable conflicts?
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The Distinguished Speakers Committee is delighted to bring you an opportunity to meet Deborah C. Wright, Chairman and CEO of Carver Bankcorp Inc. at a luncheon hosted by FWA Platinum Circle supporter Merrill Lynch.
Contributed by Alana Elsner
For some, the issue of social responsibility may seem new- a post-millennial development- part a new consciousness about the world around us that spurred the onslaught of hybrid vehicles and carbon credits. But for others, like the executives at Trillium Management and the Calvert Group, socially responsible investing began decades ago. Perhaps its beginnings can more accurately be traced to grassroots movements in the 1960s or to the gas crisis of 1973. Since its humble beginnings, socially responsible investing (SRI) evolved from being perceived as an eccentric offshoot of mainstream investing to a legitimate and meaningful investment strategy. But how has the recent economic downturn affected this new field of investment?
Back in February, I emailed a senior marketing manager at a commodities exchange and asked him to have coffee. I met him at the Chicago Trading Forum last October, and after bumping into him again at the Financial Times’ Meet the Press event, I wanted to know more about his role at a large Chicago exchange.
His first email reply seemed like a blow-off, but he said to contact him again in three weeks. Then he asked for another two. I waited about a month and tried again. I was surprised when finally he picked a time and place.
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