Thousands of messages fight for our attention every day. When it comes to promoting ourselves for jobs and promotions, we face a mountain of competition when we try to get our unique story through the ...

1. Actively communicate your contributions. People can’t read your mind, so don’t expect your boss or your coworkers to understand how you’re contributing or why your work matters. Tell them–whether ...

In our noisy age, it clearly doesn’t work to just do good work and hope opportunities find you. Putting yourself out there is key. But there’s a catch when it comes to self-promotion–people really ...

While it's never been a better time to be a successful IT professional in terms of professional gains, recognizing opportunities for career advancement is just the starting point. IT professionals who ...

Self-praise is at best unbecoming, and at worst a sin. “We’re told by our families, our teachers that nobody likes a braggart,” says Peggy Klaus, workplace communication expert and author of BRAG! The ...

Women, according to about a million researchers, management experts and self help gurus, have trouble touting their own achievements and that doesn’t help their careers. But a new study may have ...

Do you regularly post proud news on social media or volunteer your skills for yet another workplace project? Some people self-promote unashamedly. Others don’t. In reality, most people dislike ...

“Confidence is never confident enough.” At a place like Penn, this advice given by my pre-major advisor comes back to haunt me like the plague. These are some really trying times. While the school ...