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  Job Search

  Laid Off? Start Here.

  This article incorporates insights from career development leaders and Forté community experts on navigating layoffs and professional transitions. Getting laid off hurts. And the hardest part isn’t the job loss. It’s the story you start telling yourself about what it means. Maybe it means you weren’t good enough.Maybe it means you’re behind.Maybe it means everyone […]

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  Forté Signals

  What’s the Deal with Job Descriptions?

  Have you heard the stat about women only applying to jobs when they meet nearly all of the requirements? It shows up in workshops on confidence, leadership development, career planning… Pick a topic and at some point someone will mention it. The exact numbers change depending on who tells the story. But the basic claim […]

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  Early Career

  Mentorship Isn’t Optional. It’s Career Infrastructure.

  This article incorporates insights from Forté research and community data on the impact of mentorship in the workplace. Working hard is important. But early in your career, working hard without guidance is inefficient. Many professionals assume that if they perform well, opportunities will follow. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t.   And often, it has nothing […]

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  Career Stage

  How to Negotiate with Confidence

  Many women are reluctant to negotiate — but the more you know about negotiation, the easier it is to ask for what you want.

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  Career Advancement

  What Hiring Managers Mean When They Say “I Just Wasn’t Sure”

  Over the past year at Forté, I’ve been paying close attention to how employers talk after meeting candidates at events and programs. These are not interviews. They are short conversations. Coffee chats. Roundtables. The kinds of interactions everyone treats as informational but that still shape impressions. The reactions are often muted. No one says a […]

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  ERGs in Action

  Everyone Supported Them. Someone Else Got the Role.

  Organizations talk about talent. A lot. Managers identify high performers. Leaders mention people they are impressed by. Names circulate in positive ways across multiple conversations. In most companies, it isn’t difficult to find individuals many people believe are already operating above their formal level. So when something limited appears, something only one person will receive, […]

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