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1-Minute Strategies: October ’12

Take control of a panel interview. Making a great impression in a panel interview requires you to first figure out who you really need to impress … Find a great networking event …Boost your creativity by seeking diversity.

4 tips to help break out of the pack

While you used to earn advancement by working hard and helping your boss, now you need to find a way to get noticed by people above your boss, without coming across as an annoying self-promoter. Tips that can help you pull it off:

3 ways a blog can help you advance

Starting at the bottom may not be fun, but it’s a fact of life. Or is it? Cassie Boorn skipped it with the help of a blog she started in college. Steer yourself into the fast lane with her tips.

Feel like an impostor at work?

Even if you’re doing well in your career, getting good reviews and advancing at a solid clip, you may have times when you feel like you don’t really know what you’re doing and you’re just faking it, writes Jessica Stillman. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

Are you ready to get ‘profersonal’?

“Profersonalism is about letting go of the idea that we can put our lives into neat little boxes. It’s about categorizing activities instead of people,” says Jason Seiden, CEO of Ajax Social Media. What does that mean in the context of an administrative professional’s career?