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Navigating your professional life can be difficult. Get expert career tips and advice for women from the editors at Marie Claire!




At Work with Estee Lauder President Thia Breen (01/01/2012)
    You loved your old manager, but now there's a new person in charge and how you handle that transition could make or break your career.

The New-Boss Survival Guide (12/01/2011)
    You loved your old manager, but now there's a new person in charge and how you handle that transition could make or break your career.

How I Spend My Workday (11/01/2011) Pages: 2 3 4 5
    Whether you’re a desk jockey or an on-the-go exec, you're probably at your job more than you are at home. So what are you doing there? We followed five women to see what their 9-to-5 is really like.

The View From The Top (11/01/2011) Pages: 2 3
    It's good to be the boss. Three powerful women share the highs, lows, and biggest surprises of their kick-ass careers.

Women on Top Awards 2011
    16 women who are reinventing their industries and demolishing boys' clubs from the ranks of the military to Silicon Valley.

Women on Top (11/01/2011) Pages: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    Why are more young women identifying themselves as Republican? We asked GOP wunderkind Sarah Huckabee Sanders, daughter of former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.

Is Your Career Ruining Your Credibility? (10/01/2011)
    You make good money, have your own assistant, even snagged the office with the best view. So why are you so embarrassed to tell people what you do for a living?

Megyn Kelly on Good Looks, Fox News & Jon Stewart (09/01/2011) Pages: 2
    None of Fox News' anchors compete for airtime quite like her. We caught up with the 40-year-old mother of two, just back from maternity leave, for a chat about her controversial boss and famously short hemlines.

We Don't Know How They Do It: Women Who Rock
    Whether she's a high-profile exec or a full-fledged superhero, our roundup of the most impressive multi-tasking wonder women in fiction will make you want to update your resume.

Do You Need a Career Reboot?
    Daydream about giving notice? How about starting over in another industry? Take our ultimate career makeover quiz to find out if you need to make a switch.

Is Your Boss a Bully? (07/01/2011)
    She assigns you the worst projects, favors your colleagues, even slams your appearance. Demanding, yes, but has your boss crossed the line?

What It Costs to Be Me: U.S. Edition (07/01/2011) Pages: 2 3 4 5
    Women from across the nation reveal their annual income, how they spend their money, and what they love to splurge on!

Can Cursing at Work Help Your Career?
    If everyone says it's a no-no, why are so many of us still doing it?

How Financially Savvy Are You?
    Living in the wake of one of the worst financial crises to hit Wall Street has made discussing money matters important. But talking good finances and practicing them are two very different things. Find out where you score on the credit smarts scale.

How "Mommy" Can You Be at Work?
    You're the boss' go-to gal on key projects, eleventh-hour fixes, and the firm's most important clients. The trick to staying on top: Don't mention your kids.

The Controversial Rise in Manimony
    Women have worked so hard to get this far and make some serious cash — so why should they have to pay alimony to their exes?

Conan's First Lady of Comedy
    In the boys’ club of late-night shows — where male writers outnumber women by as many as 19 to 1 — Laurie Kilmartin scores as Conan's sole female writer.

Braving New Worlds: Why Career Women Are Moving Abroad Pages: 2 3 4
    We all know what it's like to slog through a recession. Meet five women who took action, pulling up stakes and moving to countries with rapidly developing economies.

How Ethnic Can You Be at Work?
    Displaying ethnic pride — a sari to a job interview or deadlocks to a meeting — is often a career-defining decision.

Mika Brzezinski Speaks: How Getting Fired Saved My Career
    Before finding her place as cohost of MSNBC's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski was fired; here's what she learned from the experience and how she made her comeback.

What It Costs to Be Me Pages: 2 3 4 5
    Five women from around the world reveal how they spend their money, what they're saving for — and their most expensive shoes!

Are Your Parents Stealing Your Identity? (11/01/10)
    The people you trust most in the world — Mom and Dad — might be ripping you off.

Websurfing at Work Is Good for You
    A new study suggests there's no harm — and plenty of benefit — in hitting up Facebook or Twitter on the job.

Women on Top Awards 2010
    Your ultimate beauty guide. Let our team of professional makeup artists and stylists how you show to create salon worthy looks at home.

What It's Like to Work in a Morgue
    One woman gives an inside look into her life as a hospital's mortuary manager and go-to corpse wrangler.

How a Hardworking Husband Could Be Bad for Your Career
    Women with hardworking husbands are more likely to quit their jobs.

Is Playing by the Rules Killing Your Career?
    Yes. That's the startling conclusion of "Damned if She Does, Damned if She Doesn't," by Lynn Cronin and Howard Fine, who examine how the tried-and-true rules of business undermine women workers.

How'd You Get That Job?
    Not everybody's a clock-punching cube jockey. Meet three women with oh-my-God careers.

Career Burnout: Maya Luz (May 2010)
    Rising star Maya Luz quit Project Runway after just 10 weeks. Are you headed for a career crash, too? Marina Khidekel investigates.

In Business with Bestie (03/10)
    We asked our favorite fashion up-and-comers, the best friends behind edgy label Vena Cava, how they managed to pull off launching a business with your best pal.

I Work the Graveyard Shift
    An estimated 8 million Americans work through the night, scurrying to the office while the rest of the world settles into bed. Would it work for you?

Calling All Alpha Females: Are You with a Beta Man?
   

Sleeping with the Boss Pages: 2
    Call it the Letterman Effect: Monique El-Faizy explores the darker side of having an affair with the guy in the corner office.

"Hey, Can You Help Me Log On?"
    My boss can't boot up without me. But for some reason, I'm still the assistant.

Six Questions to Ask Before Relocating
    The ex-pat checklist.

5 Dangerous Jobs Pages: 2 3 4 5
    In trying times, it's tempting to play it safe in your career. But here's another idea: Be bold. Meet five American women who have taken on some intensely gutsy gigs.

Moonlighting Makes a Comeback
    Nearly 2 million American women hold down two jobs, a figure experts say will rise if the economy doesn't rebound soon.

Layoff Insurance Is This Summer's Vacation Essential
    Antsy employees, worried they'll have to bag their pricey getaways in the event of a downsizing, are shelling out for layoff insurance

My Week of Living Coupon to Coupon
    For one week, I put the credit card away and limited myself to only discounted and coupon-subsidized purchases. Here's what I learned.

Office Hookups Are on the Rise
    One unintended consequence of the recession: Your harmless flirtation with that hipster from payroll may soon heat up to a full boil.

Has the Recession Changed Your Relationship?
    Reports show that the economy has been tougher on male-dominated fields than female. Tell us your story and you could be featured in Marie Claire.

What's Your Life Equity?
    As our economy unravels, we may find it hard to see the silver lining, but U.S. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn doesn’t think so.

9 Ways to Save Money on Your Commute
    You're probably spending more than you would like on commuting to and from work. Marie Claire has 9 ways to save your hard-earned cash during rush hour.

An Upside to the Downturn
    Losing your job, or just worrying about it, is no joke. But some of us are finding silver linings amid the maelstrom.

The Art of Reinvention Pages: 2 3 4 5
    Switching careers requires legwork - networking, research, maybe an advanced degree - and a whole lotta moxie. Meet five women who felt the urge and took the plunge, bear market be damned.

Women We Wish Were Better at Their Jobs
    The victims of Bernard Madoff's breathtaking $50 billion swindle may be short on cash these days, but they have plenty of blame to pass around.

The Backup Plan Pages: 2
    Your career's in a holding pattern, so now what? With the economy cratering, here's your chance to execute those pipe dreams and what-if schemes. Meet six women who already did.

That's Rich
    Ever drive through a neighborhood full of four-car garages and waterfront views and wonder, Who are these people and how did they get here?

Can a Pill Make You Smarter?
    A series of new drugs promises to increase our productivity and focus.

The Pink Ceiling
    It's the startling work trend that nobody's talking about: Why do ambitious young women say they hate working for other women?




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