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Ten Variables That Will Make You Thrive (Not Just Survive!) While Working in Social Impact

Creating change is not for the fainthearted - it can be frustrating, stressful, and even painful. So how can you cope?

Stigma Unemployment

How the Fear, Shame and Stigma Around Unemployment Are Holding Us Back

It is okay to pause, rest, and recalibrate our lives.

On Professionalism and Respectability

On Professionalism and Respectability

We urgently need a paradigm shift in how professionalism and seriousness are understood, we need a re-humanizing of professionalism.

Passionate About Work

Never Felt Passionate About Your Work? Three Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Feel Bad About It

Is it time to unlearn the concept of passion?

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Returning to Work as a Mother

How to prepare yourself for the next chapter in your career.

Junior Professional Officer at UN Women

A Day in the Life of a Junior Professional Officer at UN Women

An interview with Miriam Modalal, Portfolio Manager at the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.

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Women, Start Tooting Your Own Horn Already

How can we change the way we see ourselves, and ultimately, the way potential employers see us?

time to quit your job?

Self-Test: Is It Time to Leave Your Job?

A simple test to help you answer the question, should I stay or should I go?

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A Master Plan for Living Your Passion - Even in Difficult Times

How to reinvigorate what you might think has been lost - your inspiration, your motivation, your love for the things you create.

Astrid Schrader

The Three Questions to Build a Purpose-Driven Career

Knowing your calling is an asset. Following it an even bigger one.

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From Diversity and Inclusion to Belonging

We are on a mission to deconstruct power and privilege in the sustainability and social justice sector.

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