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    Technical Professional Branching Into Business? Find Your Blue Ocean

    April 30, 20210
    By Tom Backus
    April 29, 2021

     

    As referenced in the article “Simplified Strategies in Understanding Personal Strategy of Boutique Employability,” crafting your personal strategy revolves around finding one’s Boutique Employability. This entails positioning yourself as a multidimensional professional that brings something unique to the table and differentiates you from every other jobseeker (Ivy, 2020). But how does one stand apart when they are transitioning between defined technical careers and the wide world of business?

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    Edge-crafters, Employers, Millennials

    East Boston Consult-a-thon unites Neighbors for Small Business Recovery

    April 1, 20210
    By Laura Ballek Cole

    April 1, 2021

    MARCH 26, 2021, Four East Boston businesses and 16 volunteer young professionals, a number of which are East Boston residents, came together for a “Consult-a-thon” to work on solving the challenges small businesses are facing in the neighborhood. This hackathon-style event was organized as a four-step process based on the BE-EDGE method by Julia Ivy with the goal to help millennials and immigrant-run businesses of East Boston to synchronize their goals and passions. Read more

    Edge-crafters, Millennials

    How to emotionally connect with your audience to drive engagement

    March 2, 20210
    By Trianne Bamba 

    March 2, 2022

     

    There are different techniques used in marketing, promoting, and advertising products and services. Emotional marketing is one of the effective techniques of marketing. Marketers utilize this technique to focus on emotions like happiness, sadness, fear, and anger to engage the consumer and increase sales of their product or service by inciting response.

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    Accomplished Professionals, By Julia Ivy, Edge-crafters, Educators, Employers, Millennials, Universities

    The Role of Social Capital in a Community: 5 Things to Prioritize

    February 8, 20210

    By BE-EDGE
    December 2021

     

    Considering the analogy of social capital at an individual level; you are always advised that your social circle has a significant influence in your future success in business or career development. On a large scale, the idea transcends to the societal parameters (the network of people and their relationship) that dictate the logistics for community development.

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    Edge-crafters, Millennials

    MILLENNIALS: When Jobs Are Gone, Craft Your Own

    May 14, 20200

    By Julia Ivy, PhD
    May 13, 2020. Published on June 9, 2020  at HR.com

     

    The Millennial generation (born between 1980 and 2000) now comprises about one-half of the American workforce, and this generation has been hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. More Millennials (61 percent) have lost their job or had their hours or salaries reduced than any other generational group due to the pandemic.

    At the same time, this generation is the most educated. Historical data of educational levels among people 25 to 29 years of age shows 40 percent of Millennials held advanced degrees in 2016 compared to 32 percent of Generation Xers in 2000 and 26 percent of Boomers in 1985.

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    By Julia Ivy, Edge-crafters, Educators, Universities

    What is the Impact of Capstone Courses on Students’ Employability?

    May 14, 20200

    By Swapnil Lokhande.
    Faculty Mentor: Julia Ivy
    May 14, 2020

     

    The research involves the analysis of the impact of the Capstone program on the employability of the students or job seekers. The fundamental analysis in this research involves the identification of the keywords used by the people (authors) while discussing the benefits of capstone courses in the academic curriculum. The specified goal is to categorize the findings through the BE-EDGE concept and see how far the capstone project helps students in developing their personal, social, and professional capital.

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    By Julia Ivy, Edge-crafters, Educators, Universities

    What is the Impact of Capstone Courses on Students’ Employability?

    May 14, 20200

    by Swapnil Lokhande

    Supervised by Dr. Julia Ivy

    May 14, 2020

     

    The research involves the analysis of the impact of the Capstone program on the employability of the students or job seekers. The fundamental analysis in this research involves the identification of the keywords used by the people (authors) while discussing the benefits of capstone in the academic curriculum. The goal is to identify the keywords and analyze them based on the BE-EDGE methodology and see how far the capstone project helps students in developing their Personal, Social and Professional Capital.

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    Edge-crafters, Educators

    Boutique Employability in a Chinese Investment Firm

    April 27, 20200
    By TL

    April 27, 2020

     

    In seven days, I will officially be a college graduate. I plan to work in a large investment firm in China. After using the BE-EDGE methodology to analyze the corporate decision of Intuit’s QuickBooks trying to expand its market to China, I realized I had a unique niche of marketable skills as well that add value to my future career, especially in how I can find a job that is a good fit for me rather than conforming to what a company expects in its supposedly ideal job candidate. I crafted a personal strategy for my boutique employability.

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    Edge-crafters, Millennials

    How to Create a Meaningful Career Path to Successfully Go from a Graduate Student to a Young Professional

    April 26, 20200

    By Alix Crichton

    April 26, 2020

     

    Happy employees could increase “sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and accuracy on tasks by 19%.” (Shawn Achor, 2011). In 2011, Shawn Achor demonstrated that happiness at work is not only beneficial for self-development, but it is also a key success factor for employers.

    With this statement in mind, I dedicated my last year of graduate school to seeking the perfect job. Like many Millennials, I felt that the traditional job market did not go along with a fulfilling career (Julia Ivy, 2019). The Answer seemed to be elsewhere, but maybe I did not ask myself the right questions.

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    Edge-crafters, Educators

    How to Pitch Your “Self-Help” Book

    January 15, 20200

    By Julia Ivy

    January 15, 2020

     

    Sales of self-help books reached record levels in the past year, surpassing three million. According to The Guardian, this represents a 20% increase over previous years, “propelling self-improvement or pop psychology into one of the fastest-growing genres of publishing.” According to Publishing Perspectives, self-help books are the world’s bestselling genre. Today, a broad range of authors can find an audience in this fast-growing sector. But marketing a self-help book on a topic beyond health and wellness can be tricky.

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    Accomplished Professionals, Edge-crafters, Educators, Employers, Millennials

    2020 New Years’ Resolution: “It’s Time for Your Boutique Employability”

    December 26, 20190

    By Julia Ivy

    December 26, 2019

     

    At the beginning of December, Ian Thomsen, a journalist, contacted me to schedule an interview about my book “Crafting Your EDGE for Today’s Job Market” — the book that equips Millennials, graduates, and soon-to-be graduates, with an instrument to craft their Boutique Employability while they are still in college doing their capstone projects and internships.  We also discussed that the book would serve accomplished professionals (say, veterans) with a tool for how they can utilize their already accumulated personal, social, and professional capital for self-differentiation in the civilian market. 

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    Accomplished Professionals, Edge-crafters, Veterans

    CRAFTING VETERANS’ EDGE FOR TODAY’S CIVILIAN MARKET

    November 30, 20190
    By Julia Ivy

    November 30, 2019

     

    A simple Google search revealed within seconds that there are around 45,000 veteran organizations in the United States, and many of them are dedicated to assisting veterans with the transition to civilian life. Most of them have veterans on the board who used to face the same “what’s next?” challenge; they have found the way out, so they are eager to help others. On top of this, we have several regulations that encourage businesses and state organizations to hire veterans.

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    Accomplished Professionals, By Julia Ivy, Edge-crafters, Millennials

    Understanding Your Personal Strategy of Boutique Employability

    November 25, 20190

    By Julia Ivy

    November 25, 2019

     

    This post talks about understanding the strategy behind the personal strategy, and not just any personal strategy but Personal Strategy for Boutique Employability. First of all, the term Personal Strategy is overused, while not really defined.  While it obviously includes the “strategy” in its definition, it’s frequently used by psychologies to emphasize their message that a person should define and own their own path in life.

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    Edge-crafters, Millennials, Veterans

    Job Candidates: Role of Community Engagement in High-Trust Environment Building

    October 21, 20190

    Differential generation employees, Millennials Job candidates for instance, often suffer from low-self esteem due to a low-trust environment. Community engagement may be a possible solution to curb this issue and others.

     

    As we discussed in another post on my blog, way too often, people from a different generation (say, Millennials) find themselves in a low-trust environment, where they feel invisible and disconnected, and where their value is perceived as depreciated due to their background (gender, age, previous experience. etc.). This is especially true for established industries that are run by older, “classical,” rules. Academia, banking, construction, and healthcare are just a few examples. If you are in such a context, you need mechanisms of selectivity and verification for choosing the right social capital strategy for navigating such a context.

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