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About Penelope Trunk | Penelope Trunk Careers
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I am co-founder of Quistic. Where we provide online courses to help you manage your career. This is my fourth startup. Each company I built was focused on a community. My own career path has had twists and turns, which I document on this blog. My career began in Los Angeles, where I played professional beach volleyball. Then I went to graduate school for English. During that time I learned HTML which allowed me to get a job at Ingram Micro, a Fortune 100 company, managing their web site. This was an impo...
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About Brazen Careerist | Penelope Trunk Careers
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Career Management for Today’s Workplace. A trend. It’s part of the culture surrounding our family, our friends and. In May 2009, 72 percent of surveyed recruiters said they would invest more in social media this year ( ERE. Only 26 percent said they would invest more in job boards. Career management is changing, and so should you. It’s no longer enough to polish your resume when it’s time to look for a new job. You need to be active. Controlling your professional identity”? What is Brazen Careerist?
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How to get your company to listen to your ideas | Penelope Trunk Careers
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How to get your company to listen to your ideas. Posted in: Managing up. April 11th, 2007. One of the biggest complaints I hear from employees is that no one is listening to their ideas. In a large part this is not because the ideas are bad, but becuse most employees don’t sell their ideas to their company properly. A good example of how to sell an idea to an organization is this ad campaign. Run by the Center for Constitutional Rights. 8220;People need to learn to take an innovative idea and build a bus...
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Expand your opportunities by finding a specialty | Penelope Trunk Careers
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Expand your opportunities by finding a specialty. Posted in: Knowing yourself. May 7th, 2006. I spent two hours this week writing an article about autism. My son was diagnosed with autism and I could write five hundred pages about dealing with the diagnosis. But then I reminded myself about specializing. About focus. Specialists get a lot of good things in this world, and people who dabble in everything get nothing. I stick to writing about careers because specialization is the ticket to freedom from bor...
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Video Games | Penelope Trunk Education
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Archive : Video games (30). Pokemon GO vs School. What if all they want to do is play video games? Homeschool is a video game issue. Parental controls online are mostly misguided. Video games teach mindfulness — even Call of Duty! Playing video games does not always mean consuming media. Kids like violent fantasy and role playing. It’s normal and healthy. Video games provide a genuine happiness that we find very few other ways. Violent video games don’t make kids violent. Unlimited video games in the news.
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Money | Penelope Trunk Education
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Archive : Money (18). How I came to terms with my husband’s income. Are you as open-minded as you think you are? Is the education discussion inextricably tied to money? How stay-at-home parents make up for lost income. Pay kids to do stuff they don’t like. Homeschooler goal: Kids who are debt free. School is a fast-track to poverty. 5 Reasons it’s easier for single parents to homeschool. Homeschooling does not make you poor. How to quit your job so you can homeschool. Financial literacy for homeschoolers.
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How to get along with difficult co-workers | Penelope Trunk Careers
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How to get along with difficult co-workers. Posted in: Knowing yourself. June 26th, 2006. People with good social skills can get along with almost anyone, and if you want to be successful in your career, you have to make people like you: Figure out what matters to them, what makes them tick, and then speak to that when you interact. The field of psychology that focuses on this particular issue is social psychology. Think hard about how you approach a group. As long as you respect the people in the group,...
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Freedom vs. coercion: The quintessential homeschooler dilemma | Penelope Trunk Education
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Freedom vs. coercion: The quintessential homeschooler dilemma. Posted in: Curriculum (or not). August 10th, 2015. We all believe in freedom. That’s why we take our kids out of school. We take them out because we want the freedom to raise our kids the way we think is best. Many of us also want our kids to have freedom to learn in a self-directed way. After all, the data is nearly universal that self-directed learning is the most effective way to educate kids. I decide I will instill in him that you suppor...
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School is a fast-track to poverty | Penelope Trunk Education
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School is a fast-track to poverty. August 4th, 2015. If you are poor now, you will be poor later; school does not get kids out of poverty. One reason we know this to be true is that schools systematically move poor kids from the classroom to the jail cell. But the other barrier to lifting kids out of poverty is that rich kids score high and poor kids score low, and this doesn’t change if you put a rich kid in a poor-kid school or vice versa. And give their kids individual, customized learning programs, s...
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I can’t bring a girlfriend home to my family | Penelope Trunk Mailbag
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I can’t bring a girlfriend home to my family. Posted in: Setting Goals. June 24th, 2015. Lately I’ve been texting this girl that I seem to like. Yet whenever I imagine us in a relationship I get concerned. And it’s that way not just with her but with any girl I really like. I just turned 22 in February and I’m still in College and have never experienced anything sexually. Never a first kiss, nothing. I feel the only way to fix our situation is to spend some time away from each other. That’s why I’ve ...
