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"How to Express Your True Self at Work"

This post was written by Penelope Trunk: "It is harder to know who you are than it is to be who you are. Everyone says, "The important thing is to be yourself!"  I say that when I give them career advice. People like you better when you are being authentic. Gay people do better in their careers when they are out of the closet. Women do better at work if they are feminine at work instead of trying to be like the guys.

But there is very little advice on HOW to be yourself.

1. Don't be boring...

2. Try a range of tools to express who you are...

3. Understand how people perceive what you put out there..."

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Source: Brazen Careerist, 30 August 2010. © 2009 Penelope Trunk, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).