Optima Thoughts
Marianne RuggieroA monthly e-newsletter full of creative ideas and new strategies for managing and maximizing your career.
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Ready for any interview? Maybe not!
Optima Thoughts
I’ve written before about the STAR method — situation, task, action, result — as the backbone of interview prep. Developing “case stories” of your work history with these four elements is still the right place to start. But...
Scaling your leadership
This spring I spent a morning shadowing Jodi Cohen, principal of James Madison High School in Brooklyn, through Pencil’s Principal for the Day program — her first year hosting it, and my first year doing it. JMHS has 4,000 students, 1,000 o...
The mid-career threat you don't see coming
Not long ago I was speaking at an event hosted by Forum, a Brooklyn-based tutoring company, for an audience of tutors, educational consultants, and parents. The conversation was about preparing young people for the workforce. One audience m...
The career ladder is broken. Now what?
Recent college grads are facing one of the toughest job markets in memory, matched only by the COVID lockdown. But COVID was a temporary problem—today, it’s a systemic one. Traditional entry-level positions designed to take raw, inexperienc...
The debate over liberal arts - and my POV
It’s graduation time, but what follows all the celebrating is an unsettling question for most new graduates: Now what?
This week I’m presenting an important conversation in two parts, based on a chart that maps the skills that a liberal ar...
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