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Help Center

In this section of Early Stage Professional we address the topics where professionals at all stages of their careers can need help. While we would all love to never make a mistake at work, never have a difficult conversation or never be laid off these things are pretty much inevitable over the course of a career.

Just because they are inevitable, doesn't mean there's not a way of managing through these issues to minimize the impact on your career and reputation.  

The Help Center focuses on the following areas:
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• Annual Reviews: Having to both evaluate our own performance (written annual review) and be evaluated by our managers (review rating and in-person meeting) is stressful for all of us, no matter how experienced. This section provides ideas and advice for how to ace the review.
• Career Speed Bumps: Whether your speed bump is having made a mistake at the office or being laid off, this section will help you make the difficult issues that arise and test all of us what they are a speed bump. A temporary delay to our career journey. 
• Managing Up: If only our managers were like us, then we would have no issue at work! That said we are all different and managing our relationship with our manager is key to ensuring we get ahead and stay ahead. In this section you will find ideas on how to succeed in managing up.​
• Promotions & Career Planning: Yes, we have all heard the stories of Mark Zuckerberg and those other lucky billionaires, but if we are not in the lucky 0.1% of society our careers will be a little more linear and traditional. This section focuses on how to get a career plan together for the rest of us.
• Stress Management: Work can be stressful. We may have co-workers or managers that we don't like. We may have too much on our plate and find it hard to switch. We may just be frustrated in our job or life outside work. Whatever the reason, this section focuses on actions to take to manage our stress.

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