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Valerie Gonyea

VALERIE GONYEA
CAREER ENCOURAGEMENT OFFICER

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Skip The News and Create Your Own Magic

Yes, it has been far too long since my last post, but I have to tell you that my absence was due to all of the right reasons!  My last post extolled the “magic” of making a commitment to ourselves to go to networking events.  Well, I am here to tell you that I am [...]

Networking

Making a 2009 Networking Goal is MAGIC!

I  have always loved to network. Yes, it is in my blood somehow. But sometimes even I have to push myself to go to more events.

Last year I made a very mild goal of attending a minimum of two networking events every month. Within 4 months, I had attended enough events [...]

Career Planning & Strategy

The Complete Career Campaign ™: Defining My Offer, Designing My Life

This is a very exciting week for me! I recently took on a big challenge and taught myself how to use Adobe’s Dreamweaver software to build my own webpage. I have now officially launched the Career Courageously site.

The process of building a webpage is much more than learning code and [...]

COURAGEOUS Careering!

You Know You Have a Good Idea When……

This week I attended two networking events.  One of the groups hosting an event has my membership listed under my own company name, Career Courageously. The content of the presentation, as it turned out, was about networking….a topic near and dear to my heart.

During the presentation, I found myself spontaneously [...]

Networking

Fish Where the Fish Are….Got It???

Back in March, pal Jason Alba wrote a review of the book “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream” written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Jason wrote:

“If you are NOT in a job search right now, and either worry about one or think you are invincible, then this is [...]