Career Center Blog | Change from within, say Gen Y 'intrapreneurs'

The spirit of the entrepreneur — the maverick who breaks away from conventional structures and chooses a solo path to career success — has dampened somewhat since the Great Recession, but it's still a strong American archetype. As the new

Job Calendar | City Business Casual

Seattle's Office of Economic Development hosts monthly informal gatherings to provide the business community with access to influential city leaders. OED staff will actively make introductions and connections. The March theme is Women Entrepreneurs.

Job Calendar | Exceptional Connections networking luncheon

Meet, mingle and connect with fellow entrepreneurs. Learn more and register at Eventbrite.

Career Center Blog | Avoiding the pitfalls of merging freelance and full-time work

During your search for a new job, have you ever had the urge to drop it all and just start your own business? After filling out endless applications, micromanaging your ever-changing resume and practicing your elevator speech into the wee

Job Calendar | CreativeMornings / Seattle

CreativeMornings is a monthly speaker series and morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 15-20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. This month, Sara McNally will discuss "Analog Passion & Craft in an Economic Downturn:

Career Center Blog | Start me up: 5 tips for budding entrepreneurs

For those with an entrepreneurial spirit who are nevertheless stuck in the job-search loop for extended periods, the urge to strike out on their own has been stoked in recent weeks by anecdotal reports of a resurgent venture capital market.

Job Calendar | Entrepreneur workshop

James Sun -- entrepreneur, TV host and CEO of Pirq -- will present the talk Raw and Unfiltered: What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur and Raise $1.9M. Light appetizers and beverages will be provided. Register at Meetup.

Career Center Blog | Time running out on ESD's entrepreneurial training program?

For many of the long-time unemployed, the idea of starting and running their own business is a tantalizing dream of self-reliance. (Wouldn't you love to be your own boss this week and declare your own snow days?) Some of these

Career Center Blog | Artist Trust gives a career EDGE to creative professionals

For many people, the idea of "being an artist" often runs counter to the concept of "having a career." This is one stereotype that does have at least some basis in fact: Most artists I've met are extremely talented and

Career Center Blog | Startup job fair to run riot through Seattle

For entrepreneurial-minded people, perhaps nothing else in the English language gets the heart beating faster than the word "startup." (OK, maybe "profit" ranks a bit higher.) For those looking for fame and fortune, few places are as exciting as a

Career Center Blog | Networking events to heat up Seattle's frozen spring

In case you haven't noticed it while you were poring over your weekly job-search to-do lists, it's been bloody cold outside this month. (Saturday was a nice little mirage, yes, but we're back in the usual April soup for the

Career Center Blog | Two job-seeking certainties: Networking and taxes

Well, after much ado about egos and posturing, it looks like the federal government will continue to function unabated following Friday night's 11th hour "compromise" in Congress. Aren't you happy now that you can pay your income taxes to fund

Career Center Blog | Riding the Boeing Bump in your networking efforts

Seattle is certainly no longer a one-company town, but it's impossible not to feel a surge of pride across the region when good things happens to a certain "Chicago-based" aerospace firm. The news last week of Boeing's come-from-behind victory in

Career Center Blog | Groundhog Day check-in: Job hope springs eternal

With the winter midway point of Groundhog Day nearly upon us, I think a certain Pennsylvania-based rodent might look favorably on its outlook for Seattle for the next six weeks and beyond -- not just for our warmer weather, but

Career Center Blog | Exploring new paths at the 2011 career crossroads

The new year is still new enough that almost anything seems possible. After a dreary few years, there seems to be hope that the local job market may soon begin to show sustainable growth. Some economists are saying that 2011

Career Center Blog | Good news/bad news/good news about holiday networking

Like the last two holiday seasons, this new one -- still in it's infancy -- looks like it will come packaged in the now-familiar mixed bag of economic indicators. On one hand, there is optimism for a healthier economy in

Career Center Blog | These October networking events are a 'fall classic'

Hey job seekers! I'm away this weekend celebrating my wedding anniversary down on the Oregon Coast. But I'm not one to leave my readers hanging as the fall networking seasons gets into full swing. The first half of October is

Career Center Blog | Prepare for landing: Late-summer networking events

OK, have we gotten it all out of our systems now? This wave of workplace catharsis that has rippled across the country in the days since our new 15-minute folk hero, Steve Slater, famously grabbed those beers and pulled the

Career Center Blog | Events to help you declare your job-search independence

There may be a lot of rockets' red glare and bombs bursting in air this weekend, but for many Seattleites looking for work there has not been much worth celebrating these days. The latest job creation figures from the Feds

Career Center Blog | Networking events that mix business with pleasure

As Seattleites, we can be a bit stand-offish at times. Perhaps a little distant. But when the weather is nice and the days are long, it's like we all turn into garrulous Californians. How else can we explain the large

Career Center Blog | Casting a wider net to find networking opportunities

When compiling my weekly roundup of job-search events, it's always gratifying to find a few new listings thrown in with the usual weekly or monthly regulars. This coming week, I discovered a whole array of job-search activities down in Tacoma

Career Center Blog | Work like a full-timer, think like a freelancer

While many job seekers these days are actively seeking full-time positions at conventional employers, the tough economy is causing many of them to think like entrepreneurs. The demise of the conventional activity of "scanning the want ads" is just about