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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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  Forté Signals

  Why “What’s My Next Step?” Is the Wrong Career Question Now

  For most of our working lives, we are taught to believe that progress should feel clear. You do the work.You do it well.You get good feedback.You pass Go. But the $200 never shows up. You start wondering if maybe you misread the rules.Or if you missed something obvious that everyone else seems to know.Or if […]

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  Diversity and Inclusion

  After the Quota: Where Progress Gets Personal

  As Europe approaches its 2026 boardroom mandate, the harder work of influence and power is still ahead. For those joining us in progress, Europe’s deadline is now in sight. As the continent enters the final months before its gender balance mandate takes effect, the requirement is no longer abstract. By June 30, 2026, thousands of […]

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