If you’re waiting for your work to “speak for itself,” it might be whispering. It’s time to grab the mic.

Thousands of messages fight for our attention every day. When it comes to promoting ourselves for jobs and promotions, we face a mountain of competition when we try to get our unique story through the ...

While it's never been a better time to be a successful IT professional in terms of professional gains, recognizing opportunities for career advancement is just the starting point. IT professionals who ...

In our noisy age, it clearly doesn’t work to just do good work and hope opportunities find you. Putting yourself out there is key. But there’s a catch when it comes to self-promotion–people really ...

Marci Alboher has a smart piece on the New York Times’ online edition about the art of self-promotion. The writer she refers to in the lede is actually me; before we met, I had cheerfully and, in ...

“Confidence is never confident enough.” At a place like Penn, this advice given by my pre-major advisor comes back to haunt me like the plague. These are some really trying times. While the school ...

In my work coaching leaders, I've noticed a trend: Nine out of 10 people seeking more recognition for their contributions struggle with the idea of "self-promotion." They want visibility, but they don ...

This shouldn't come as a surprise, but a study reports self-regard, self-promotion, and plain old bragging are far more prominent in pop music than they were a quarter-century ago. The authors of the ...