Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Surviving a Career Mistake [Create Your Career Path]

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Create Your Career Path
 Create Your Career Path Newsletter August 2014
Helping you identify your ideal career path, navigate your transition, and nurture your career
   

In this issue

Career Corner
Your Guide to Surviving a Career Mistake

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Hello Isodifj!

Summer is almost officially over, it's back to school time and starting the busier season at work. My mom and I took a final summer trip - to Washington DC to see my niece who is just 8 months old now. Here's a pic of us in front of the White House being tourists.

New website coming soon: We're excited to announce a new website will be coming soon. It will be easier to navigate and have an updated look. We will keep you posted.

In This Issue - Your Guide to Surviving a Career Mistake

Everyone is prone to making the occasional gaffe, but if you're regarded as the office dunce, you need to do some serious self-reflection...

Upcoming Events

   1) Live and Work With Passion and Purpose-Exclusive event
      for Georgia Tech Alumni Aug 26 (tonight) at 6:45 ET: 
   2) Mercer EMBA Retreat-Katie WEiser and I are looking forward to getting started with our newest class of
      EMBA students at Mercer University.
   3) Find Your Dream Job Webinar Series-For Georgia Tech Alumni-starts September 11th:
   4) Re-Launching Your Career Webinar-For Vanderbilt Alumni. Tips for resetting your career with confidence
     and success. Sept 16.
   5) Brainstorming Your Career Options - For University of Colorado Alumni, September 25th.

Complimentary Career Advice

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     Here's to having a career you love,

Hallie Crawford, Career Coach and Founder of Create Your Career Path


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Career Corner

Your Guide to Surviving a Career Mistake

It's possible to rehabilitate yourself from even the worst professional blunders. 

Now you’ve done it.

You lost your temper at the wrong time with the wrong colleague. You sent an email you shouldn’t have, and now your entire address book has received information that was meant to be classified. You sent out a passive aggressive tweet complaining about your employer, but it wasn’t passive enough to miss your boss’s notice. Alexander Pope once said “to err is human; to forgive, divine,” but he might have been referring to lesser offenses – the type of boo boo you just made is so professionally damaging that it could cost you your job and cause your career to go careening into the wall.

Or so it seems. With patience and creativity it’s possible to rehabilitate yourself from even the worst career gaffes. “There are few goofs from which humans cannot recover,” says Jenny Foss, founder of the career blog JobJenny.com and author of "Ridiculously Awesome Resume Kit." "The real question is – will your employer allow you the recovery after a goof?"

Possibly, if you take these steps... (read more)

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