Yvonne LaRose is an Organizational Development Consultant and Career Coach, writer, author, and instructor, whose office is in Beverly Hills, California. She's known as the solutions person and assists various types and sizes of businesses with management advice and systems solutions. She was the 2006 Career Coach for CollegeRecruiter.com. Known as the solutions person, you can read her column, Career and Executive Recruiting Advice, her blogs, The Desk about career matters or The Consultant’s Desk about employment issues, or her articles on many recruiting, HR, and management Web sites.

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	Building a Promise and a Future in One Day by Yvonne LaRose - Apr, 2007 Who said this is the last year that Ms. Foundation will produce Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day? The radio news reader must have made a mistake. There are arguments for not allowing our 9- to 15-year-old youth to go to a real, live, working office for one day each year. And the arg...
	Enough with Education by Yvonne LaRose - Apr, 2007 There comes a time when you've done as much as is appropriate for gaining an education. Although the inner voice keeps saying you're not yet ready; that you need more education; there's more knowledge required in order to be considered qualified; that you won't be able to get the pay you d...
	Focus Predicts Future by Yvonne LaRose - Apr, 2007 It was merely another bus stop maintenance crew that tumbled out of the van and collected brooms, trash bags, and shovels to attend to their duties. Except for gender and race, they initially appeared to be a homogeneous group. They worked together well, coordinating efforts in order to ma...
	Eyes on the Prize by Yvonne LaRose - Feb, 2007 Within the last month, Los Angeles has focused on no less than three race-based violence cases that involved minority youth as the perpetrators. As we approached the midpoint of February 2007, the City staged an unprecedented three-day international summit that included City legislators an...
	Where Does Money Come From? by Yvonne LaRose - Feb, 2007 Those of you who are parents (or aunts or uncles) have probably heard the question from a youngster on the order of, "Where do babies come from?" You look around the room, blink a bit, speculate about how far back in the process you should go or whether you should just gloss over the en...
	Purposeful Communication by Yvonne LaRose - Jan, 2007 There are times when we want to connect with someone. After observing the seeming success that others seem to have with simply gliding over to their desired contact and simply striking up a conversation about, let's say, the weather (or some other rather innocuous topic) and all participan...
	On the Ready by Yvonne LaRose - Dec, 2006 Given the fact that we only recently began emerging from the New Millennium Depression, it's surprising how many people I see using employment development centers dressed as though they're going to the park or kicking around on a Saturday afternoon to do housework. This is not the most str...
	Static and Dying Jobs by Yvonne LaRose - Dec, 2006 Kate Lorenz is the Career Editor at CareerBuilder and has done the same research that I did last year. The difference in our research is that Kate actually had the time to write about her findings regarding the ten dead-end jobs as defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Those BLS...
	The L.A. Job Market Is Hot by Yvonne LaRose - Nov, 2006 It's good that I didn't have time to finish the article I started two days ago. I was going to talk about incubator communities. I was also going to talk about getting into something other than an entry-level job as a sales associate in those communities. The trouble was trying to integrat...
	Appreciating the Landscape - Latin American Barrios by Yvonne LaRose - Nov, 2006 Was it yesterday or was it today? Probably the former. It was the day that I arrived at the Alvarado and Wilshire bus stop, peered across the street at the congested store front of the 99 Cents Store and determined that I should stop being angry about the nearly impossible to navigate thor...
	Two Exercises: Interests and Career Goals by Yvonne LaRose - Oct, 2006 Some of the CollegeRecruiter.com interns have read the career development exercises for this month on "Interests" but not yet done it. They may be wondering about the relevance. I'll explain. We have interests that drive our enjoyment of our work and keep us motivated; because the int...
	Associations For Finding the Right Connection by Yvonne LaRose - Oct, 2006 Recruiters and job seekers alike are striving to essentially do the same thing -- meet the right person to fill the bill. For job seekers, there's a desire to find the person who will point them in the direction of the career opportunity. On the other side of the coin is the recruiter who'...
	The 'Other' and the Last Days by Yvonne LaRose - Oct, 2006 When we're in relationships, it's easy to tell that our partner is having an affair. Do you think that maybe a job is quite a bit like a relationship after the dating period? Right now, you're probably asking yourself when is the dating period in a job? Well, I'm not talking about tradi...
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