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  • FTI Match Made in Mission
    Match Made in Mission

    From a Table in the Back to a Career in Consulting

    How One Student’s Decision to Show Up Led to an Unexpected Career Path  When Caroline Chou walked into the Forté Emerging Leaders Conference, most of the tables were already full. So she took a seat in the back. The prospect of attending a conference initially felt intimidating. “I was feeling rather lost in my business […]

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  • The Myth Of The Career Ladder
    Forté Signals

    The Myth Of The Career Ladder

    A colleague of mine said something the other day that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. We were talking about career ladders, the metaphor, the model, the whole idea, and she paused and said: Why did we all assume the ladder went up? I mean, what are ladders for, other than to get […]

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  • What the Employee Handbook Doesn't Say
    ERGs in Action

    What the Employee Handbook Doesn’t Say

    Companies will tell you that career advancement is driven by performance.  To some extent, that’s true. But ask employees how advancement actually works in any given company and the answers get murky fast. You need visibility. You need an advocate. You need to speak up more. You should stay long enough to build relationships. You […]

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  • The Virtual Career Fair That Felt Surprisingly Human
    Articles

    The Virtual Career Fair That Felt Surprisingly Human

    Most people do not hear the words virtual career fair and think ‘warm’ or ‘personal’, or ‘human.’ They think awkward networking, a sea of resumes, carefully rehearsed elevator pitches, and recruiters bouncing between conversations while candidates try to stand out in tiny squares on a screen. And why not?  Career fairs often feel transactional even […]

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  • 5 tips for telling your career story
    Career Advancement

    “I was basically a chair”: 5 tips for telling your career story

    Yesterday, my daughter texted a picture from work. Two tiny preschoolers, both perched squarely in her lap, grinning at the camera. It was adorable. She’s spending her gap year at a preschool, before she starts graduate school in the fall. I’ve gotten a lot of texts like this.   But it was her caption that made […]

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  • The Graduation Speech I Wasn’t Asked to Give
    Forté Signals

    The Graduation Speech I Wasn’t Asked to Give

    This is the time of year when people who are famous, accomplished, or both get invited to stand in front of a room full of graduating students and say something memorable. Graduation speeches are supposed to be inspirational. They are meant to give you good advice. And they are supposed to send you out the […]

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