Alexandra Levit

Alexandra Levit
Born 1976 (age 38–39)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Residence Chicago, Illinois
Nationality American
Alma mater Northwestern University
Occupation Writer, journalist, consultant
Years active 2004–present
Spouse(s) Stewart Shankman (m. 2004)[1]
Children 2
Website alexandralevit.com

Alexandra Levit (born 1976) is an American writer, consultant, speaker and workplace expert.[2] She has written six career advice books, was formerly a nationally syndicated career columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and is president of Inspiration at Work, a business and workplace consulting firm.[3]

Early life and education

Levit was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland.[4] She graduated from Northwestern University in 1998 with a degree in psychology.[1]

Career

In her early career, Levit worked in New York[5] as a public relations representative for a Long Island software company,[6] where she felt a struggle to achieve visibility and recognition for her efforts at work.[7] She went on to become a vice president at public relations firm Edelman, with a focus was on creating online campaigns in the early days of social media.[8] In 2003, she decided to use her workplace experiences to write a guide for young professionals navigating the business world. The ensuing book, They Don't Teach Corporate in College, was published in 2004 and started Levit's transition into a career as a workplace consultant, speaker, columnist and author,[7][9] which became her full-time profession after leaving Edelman in 2008.[8]

Levit is president of Inspiration at Work, a business and workplace consulting firm based in Chicago that advises universities, nonprofit associations and companies.[10][11] From 2009 to 2010, she wrote a nationally syndicated career advice column for the Wall Street Journal.[3][12] She wrote The Corporate Freshman column for the Huffington Post from 2008 to 2011,[13] and has also written for Forbes,[14] Fortune,[5] Business Insider,[15] Mashable,[16] Business 2 Community[17] and the New York Times, including a 2013 report on global business competence she wrote while living in London.[18] Her advice has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times,[19] Chicago Tribune,[20] USA Today,[21] Fast Company,[22] Cosmopolitan,[23] Entrepreneur,[24] ABC News,[25] Fox News,[26] CBS News[2] and NPR.[27] She has written six career advice books, which typically draw from surveys of professionals to offer guidance on such topics as getting a desirable job,[28] changing careers,[3][29] and work habits that will help achieve success.[30][31]

In 2009, Levit served on the Business Roundtable's Springboard Project, which advised the Obama administration on workplace issues.[31] The following year, she helped develop JobSTART 101, a free online course for college students and recent graduates to help them learn the necessary skills for success as entry-level employees.[5] In 2011, she worked with the Department of Labor under the Obama administration to develop a new career-transitioning program for veterans.[8] Also in 2011, as a member of DeVry University's Career Advisory Board, she co-founded the Career Advisory Board's Job Preparedness Indicator, an annual study of the US job market, the most recent of which was conducted in 2013.[14] The survey is designed to track the disparity between what hiring managers say they’re looking for in candidates and the skills those candidates actually possess.[32]

Personal life

Levit and her husband, Stewart Shankman, a university professor of clinical psychology, reside in Chicago, Illinois,[18] with their two children.[33]

Honors

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 “Weddings/births,” The Hour, December 21, 2003.
  2. 1 2 Amy Levin-Epstein, “New Job? 8 Tips For Your First Day,” CBS MoneyWatch, May 16, 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 Melissa Harris, “Millennial moves easily into writers’ constellation,” Chicago Tribune, January 20, 2010.
  4. ↑ Alexandra Levit, “The Right Way To Quit a Job,” Washington Post, September 25, 2007.
  5. 1 2 3 Alexandra Levit, “Scared straight: How Gen Y has benefited from the recession,” Fortune, December 2, 2010.
  6. ↑ Matt Villano, “The Smallest Raise in the Office Was Yours,” New York Times, August 21, 2005.
  7. 1 2 Kimberly Palmer, “Alexandra Levit: How to Succeed at Work,” U.S. News & World Report, July 20, 2009.
  8. 1 2 3 Pamela Slim, “Side Hustle and Flow Interview Series: Alexandra Levit,” Cubicle Nation, October 20, 2011.
  9. ↑ Erica Bethe Levin, “Cheeky Interviews Author Alexandra Levit,” cheekychicago.com, May 20, 2009.
  10. ↑ Matt Villano, “Midcareer Rocket Fuel, Courtesy of an Internship,” New York Times, October 18, 2008.
  11. ↑ Alexandra Levit, “Retention Coaching,” American Society for Training & Development, September 4, 2012.
  12. ↑ Alexandra Levit, “Have Week, Want Job,” Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2010.
  13. ↑ Blog Entries by Alexandra Levit, Huffington Post. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  14. 1 2 Alexandra Levit, “Is The Bad Job Market Just An Excuse?” Forbes, November 19, 2013.
  15. ↑ Alexandra Levit, “How To Survive A Cutthroat Workplace,” Business Insider, October 18, 2013.
  16. ↑ Alexandra Levit, “HOW TO: Deal With Social Network Overload,” Mashable, July 30, 2009.
  17. ↑ Alexandra Levit, “Five 2014 Trends That Will Impact Your Career,” Business 2 Community, January 9, 2014.
  18. 1 2 Alexandra Levit, “Seeing the World as Your Stage,” New York Times, June 8, 2013.
  19. ↑ Stephanie Rosenbloom, “So, You Messed Up. Deal With It. Now.,” New York Times, November 23, 2006.
  20. ↑ Carolyn Bigda, “Changing careers? Develop contacts,” Chicago Tribune, June 18, 2006.
  21. ↑ Anita Bruzzese, “On the Job: Questions can reveal a lot about a company,” USA Today, October 27, 2013.
  22. ↑ Kevin Purdy, “How to Get a Job in America,” Fast Company, September 26, 2011.
  23. ↑ Molly Triffin, “The 14 Best Jobs for Women,” Cosmopolitan, March 13, 2013.
  24. ↑ Ashley Lee, “How Not to Fire Employees in the Social Media Age (We’re Looking at You, Tim Armstrong),” Entrepreneur, August 2013.
  25. ↑ Interview with Tory Johnson, “’They Don’t Teach Corporate in College’,” ABC News, June 1, 2009.
  26. ↑ “Get in sync with hiring managers,” Fox Business, November 19, 2013.
  27. ↑ Renee Montagne, host, “The Generation That Can’t Wait to Move Up at Work,” NPR, September 5, 2007.
  28. ↑ Mary Ellen Slayter, “Cracking the Code on Landing Cool Jobs,” Washington Post, April 13, 2008.
  29. ↑ Jessica Stillman, “Career Change: Reinventing Yourself in a Recession is Possible,” CBS News, February 11, 2010.
  30. ↑ Carolyn Kepcher, “Myths on the job about overnight success, ‘being yourself’ and corporate America can harm,” New York Daily News, October 13, 2011.
  31. 1 2 Chandlee Bryan, “Career Hub Exclusive: Q and A with Alexandra Levit, Blind Spots,” Career Hub, October 8, 2011.
  32. ↑ “What Employers Want that Job Seekers Aren’t Mentioning,” Fox News, January 15, 2013.
  33. ↑ Alexandra Levit, “The Rise of the Independent Work Force,” New York Times, April 14, 2012.
  34. ↑ Carolyn Bigda, et al, “Best online career expert,” Money, May 12, 2010.
  35. ↑ Meghan Casserly and Jenna Goudreau, “Top 100 Websites For Women,” Forbes, June 23, 2010.
  36. ↑ Meghan Casserly and Jenna Goudreau, “Top 100 Websites For Women 2012,” Forbes, June 20, 2012.
  37. ↑ “11 Moments That Make Starting a Business Completely Worth It,” All Business Experts, August 8, 2013.
  38. ↑ Chelsea Gladden, “14 Career Experts to Follow on Twitter,” Mashable, September 8, 2012.
  39. ↑ Jacquelyn Smith, “The Top 100 Websites For Your Career,” Forbes, September 18, 2013.

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