CNN’s senior correspondent Joe Johns has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. After reporting on some of the nation’s top stories for years– including the 2012 election of Barack Obama and [...]
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So you’ve somehow weaseled your way into a Capitol Hill internship. Maybe you sprayed all 535 offices with your resume. Maybe you share an alma mater with a Chief of Staff to some no-name [...]
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In our search for perks, cool coworkers, and a career full of excitement, it’s easy to overlook local government. But DC government jobs are a plenty. And Willair St. Vil, of the [...]
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Jamil Hamilton is your typical D.C. consultant. What’s not so typical is that at night, when most of his colleagues are in bed, he’s driving to one of his popular DJ gigs. Best known [...]
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The coffee industry is booming. An estimated 2 billion cups of coffee are consumed by the world’s population each day. And according to data analyst and astronomer James Davenport, 80 [...]
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“Millennials are changing the culture of the workplace, and companies who want the best and brightest talent are responding in kind,” says Lucas Group Executive Search [...]
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If anyone’s going to face an interrogation at a party, it’s someone like me– a full-time freelance writer and member of the creative class. Parties are not for faking how invested you are [...]
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The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) is upon us. This year, don’t just listen to the issues and attend the events, be part of the change. [...]
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As the CBCF‘s Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) quickly approaches, we wanted to take a closer look at how the youngest conference hosts handle the insanity and make the most of their [...]
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In my wildest dreams, never did I ever envision starting a consulting business. Consulting can seem like the fast-track to entrepreneurial success. So much so, it is often listed as one of the [...]
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By 2050, 1.3 billion people of the 7 billion on earth will come from the continent of Africa. With population growth at such explosive levels, job growth levels are just barely keeping up– [...]
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“Until you learn to celebrate things big and small, none of this is worth it,” says moonlighter and Goodshuffle co-founder Erik Dreyer. Goodshuffle connects local companies and [...]
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A short commute from the Logan Circle neighborhood Elise Viebeck calls home, is a shiny new Washington Post office building— where the 27-year-old National Enterprise Reporter sits in a [...]
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Ready for a counterintuitve approach to getting ahead? After you land that well-paying gig you’ve been searching for, keep interviewing. Yes that’s right, go on another interview. It [...]
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Conferences are great. But finding a great network, that’s alive and dynamic, helps you build a reputation, become known throughout the city, and of course create a unique personal brand. [...]
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In today’s workplace, getting fired, passed over for a raise or promotion, and being under underutilized, can result in painful experiences that sap our strength and undermine our ability [...]
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There’s a scene in the HBO classic series Entourage where super-agent Ari Gold has a choice, two of his employees — who happen to be brothers — had a dispute and can no longer [...]
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In December 2012, I moved from Boston, Massachusetts to DC to launch a training company focused on public speaking and presentation skills. I moved without a single client but with an incredible [...]
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A self-proclaimed #bawse, Courtney Rae O’Neal is a politico by day and fashion stylist by night. The communications director for a Member on Capitol Hill has been moonlighting as a fashion [...]
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It started off with a kiss (uh huh). And indeed it did. In his 2009 debut, Ryan Leslie’s Addiction, featuring hip-hop princess Cassie, was the song of the summer. Writing and producing music has [...]
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