Alexandra Levit

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Alexandra Levit
Alexandra Levit 2008.jpg
Born1976 (age 44–45)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNorthwestern University
OccupationWriter, journalist, consultant
Years active2004–present
Spouse(s)
Stewart Shankman
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(m. 2004)​
[1]
Children2
Websitealexandralevit.com

Alexandra Levit (born 1976)[2] is an American writer, consultant, speaker, workplace expert and futurist.[3] She has written eight career and workplace books, and was formerly a nationally syndicated career columnist for The Wall Street Journal.[4] In 2017, she became a partner at organizational development firm PeopleResults.[5] In 2019, she was named to the Thinkers50 Radar List. [6] In 2021, she received a certification in strategic foresight from the University of Houston.

Early life and education[]

Levit was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland.[7] She graduated from Northwestern University in 1998 with a degree in psychology.[1]

Career[]

In her early career, Levit worked in New York[8] as a public relations representative for a Long Island software company,[9] where she felt a struggle to achieve visibility and recognition for her efforts at work.[10] 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.[11] 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,[10][12] which became her full-time profession after leaving Edelman in 2008.[11]

In 2004, Levit founded Inspiration at Work, a business and workplace consulting firm based in Chicago that advised universities, nonprofit associations and companies.[13][14] In 2017, she became a partner at PeopleResults, an organizational development firm.[5] From 2009 to 2010, she wrote a nationally syndicated career advice column for The Wall Street Journal.[4][15] She wrote The Corporate Freshman column for the Huffington Post from 2008 to 2011,[16] and has also written for Forbes,[17][18] Fortune,[8] Business Insider,[19] Fast Company,[20] Mashable,[21] Business 2 Community[22] CityLab,[23] and The New York Times, including a 2013 report on global business competence she wrote while living in London,[24] and a 2016 article about artificial intelligence in the workplace.[25] She has written six business and career books, which typically draw from surveys of professionals to offer guidance on such topics as getting a desirable job,[26] changing careers,[4][27] managing a multi-generational workforce, and work habits that will help achieve success.[28][29] She writes frequently about the intersection of technology and the workplace,[25] and consults with companies about preparing for the workplace of the future. Her advice has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times,[30] Chicago Tribune,[31] USA Today,[32] Fast Company,[33] Cosmopolitan,[34] Entrepreneur,[35] ABC News,[36] Fox News,[37] CBS News,[3] NPR,[38] Marketplace,[39] Yahoo! Finance,[40] Time,[41] Vogue,[42] New York Post[43] and Mic.[44]

In 2009, Levit served on the Business Roundtable's Springboard Project, which advised the Obama administration on workplace issues.[29] 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.[8] In 2011, she worked with the Department of Labor under the Obama administration to develop a new career-transitioning program for veterans.[11] 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 2016.[17][20] 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.[45] She contributed to the Deloitte millennial leadership studies from 2014 through 2016.[46][47] In 2016, Levit presented a five-minute Ignite-style talk on the future workplace at DisruptHR at 1871 in Chicago.[48] In 2017, she presented a TEDx talk on the future of work in Evanston, Illinois,[49] and spoke at South by Southwest alongside technology entrepreneur Randi Zuckerberg and DeVry University president Rob Paul.[50]

Honors[]

Bibliography[]

  • They Don't Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something's Guide to the Business World, Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press, 2004; revised edition, 2009; third edition, 2014; fourth edition, 2019
  • How'd You Score That Gig?: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs [and How to Get Them], New York: Ballantine Books, 2008
  • Success for Hire: Simple Strategies to Find and Keep Outstanding Employees, Baltimore: ASTD Press, 2008
  • New Job, New You: A Guide to Reinventing Yourself in a Bright New Career, New York: Ballantine Books, 2009
  • #Millennial Tweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Managing the Millennials, Silicon Valley, CA: THINKaha, 2009
  • Blind Spots: The 10 Business Myths You Can't Afford to Believe on Your New Path to Success, New York: Berkley Books, 2011
  • Humanity Works: Merging Technologies and People for the Workforce of the Future, London: KoganPage, 2018

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b “Weddings/births,” The Hour, December 21, 2003.
  2. ^ Alexandra Levit, "The Hidden Reasons Why Gen-Xers' Career Prospects Are Rising," Fast Company, July 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Amy Levin-Epstein, “New Job? 8 Tips For Your First Day,” CBS MoneyWatch, May 16, 2011.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Melissa Harris, “Millennial moves easily into writers’ constellation,” Chicago Tribune, January 20, 2010.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Speakers Archived 2017-03-12 at the Wayback Machine, tedxnorthwesternu.com, April 15, 2017.
  6. ^ "Alexandra Levit". Thinkers50. 2019-02-01. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  7. ^ Alexandra Levit, “The Right Way To Quit a Job,” The Washington Post, September 25, 2007.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b c Alexandra Levit, “Scared straight: How Gen Y has benefited from the recession,” Fortune, December 2, 2010.
  9. ^ Matt Villano, “The Smallest Raise in the Office Was Yours,” The New York Times, August 21, 2005.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Kimberly Palmer, “Alexandra Levit: How to Succeed at Work,” U.S. News & World Report, July 20, 2009.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b c Pamela Slim, “Side Hustle and Flow Interview Series: Alexandra Levit,” Cubicle Nation, October 20, 2011.
  12. ^ Erica Bethe Levin, “Cheeky Interviews Author Alexandra Levit,” Archived 2014-02-01 at the Wayback Machine cheekychicago.com, May 20, 2009.
  13. ^ Matt Villano, “Midcareer Rocket Fuel, Courtesy of an Internship,” The New York Times, October 18, 2008.
  14. ^ Alexandra Levit, “Retention Coaching,” American Society for Training & Development, September 4, 2012.
  15. ^ Alexandra Levit, “Have Week, Want Job,” The Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2010.
  16. ^ Blog Entries by Alexandra Levit, Huffington Post. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b Alexandra Levit, “Is The Bad Job Market Just An Excuse?” Forbes, November 19, 2013.
  18. ^ Alexandra Levit, "Hold Those Perks: Why U.S. Workers Still Value Conventional Employment," Forbes, December 15, 2016.
  19. ^ Alexandra Levit, “How To Survive A Cutthroat Workplace,” Business Insider, October 18, 2013.
  20. ^ Jump up to: a b Alexandra Levit, "These Three Job Skills Aren't Just For IT Workers Anymore," Fast Company, March 21, 2017.
  21. ^ Alexandra Levit, “10 pieces of career advice that were true in 1996 – and are still true today,” Mashable, January 24, 2017.
  22. ^ Alexandra Levit, “Five 2014 Trends That Will Impact Your Career,” Business 2 Community, January 9, 2014.
  23. ^ Alexandra Levit, "Burned Out? Take a Sabbatical," CityLab, January 12, 2017.
  24. ^ Alexandra Levit, “Seeing the World as Your Stage,” The New York Times, June 8, 2013.
  25. ^ Jump up to: a b Alexandra Levit, "A Robot May Be Training to Do Your Job. Don't Panic." The New York Times, September 10, 2016.
  26. ^ Mary Ellen Slayter, “Cracking the Code on Landing Cool Jobs,” The Washington Post, April 13, 2008.
  27. ^ Jessica Stillman, “Career Change: Reinventing Yourself in a Recession is Possible,” CBS News, February 11, 2010.
  28. ^ Carolyn Kepcher, “Myths on the job about overnight success, ‘being yourself’ and corporate America can harm,” New York Daily News, October 13, 2011.
  29. ^ Jump up to: a b Chandlee Bryan, “Career Hub Exclusive: Q and A with Alexandra Levit, Blind Spots,” Career Hub, October 8, 2011.
  30. ^ Stephanie Rosenbloom, “So, You Messed Up. Deal With It. Now.,” The New York Times, November 23, 2006.
  31. ^ Carolyn Bigda, “Changing careers? Develop contacts,” Chicago Tribune, June 18, 2006.
  32. ^ Anita Bruzzese, “On the Job: Questions can reveal a lot about a company,” USA Today, October 27, 2013.
  33. ^ Kevin Purdy, “How to Get a Job in America,” Fast Company, September 26, 2011.
  34. ^ Molly Triffin, “The 14 Best Jobs for Women,” Cosmopolitan, March 13, 2013.
  35. ^ Ashley Lee, “How Not to Fire Employees in the Social Media Age (We’re Looking at You, Tim Armstrong),” Entrepreneur, August 2013.
  36. ^ Interview with Tory Johnson, “’They Don’t Teach Corporate in College’,” ABC News, June 1, 2009.
  37. ^ “Get in sync with hiring managers,” Fox Business, November 19, 2013.
  38. ^ Renee Montagne, host, “The Generation That Can’t Wait to Move Up at Work,” NPR, September 5, 2007.
  39. ^ David Lazarus and Jenny Ament, "The economics of moving for a job," Marketplace, June 12, 2015.
  40. ^ Mandi Woodruff, "How Jon Stewart's resignation re-ignited the 'Lean In' debate," Yahoo! Finance, February 26, 2015.
  41. ^ Alexandra Levit, "The Future of Education According to Generation Z," Time, April 6, 2015.
  42. ^ Monique Valeris, "The Introvert's Guide to Getting Ahead at Work," Vogue, March 7, 2017.
  43. ^ Virginia Backaitis, "Here's how to deal with your monster of a co-worker," New York Post, October 30, 2016.
  44. ^ Anita Hamilton, "The secret about networking that nobody ever tells you," Mic.com, May 15, 2017.
  45. ^ “What Employers Want that Job Seekers Aren’t Mentioning,” Fox News, January 15, 2013.
  46. ^ Dan Schawbel, "How Millennial Entrepreneurs Will Shake Things Up At Work," Forbes, February 28, 2014.
  47. ^ "The radical transformation of diversity and inclusion," Deloitte, 2015.
  48. ^ "What Is HR's Role In the Future of Work?" eremedia.com, March 1, 2017.
  49. ^ "2017: The Power of Intention,"[permanent dead link] tedxnorthwesternu.com, 2017.
  50. ^ "Bridging the Tech-Skills Gap," devry.edu, March 2017.
  51. ^ Carolyn Bigda, et al, “Best online career expert,” Money, May 12, 2010.
  52. ^ Meghan Casserly and Jenna Goudreau, “Top 100 Websites For Women,” Forbes, June 23, 2010.
  53. ^ Meghan Casserly and Jenna Goudreau, “Top 100 Websites For Women 2012,” Forbes, June 20, 2012.
  54. ^ “11 Moments That Make Starting a Business Completely Worth It,” Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine All Business Experts, August 8, 2013.
  55. ^ Chelsea Gladden, “14 Career Experts to Follow on Twitter,” Mashable, September 8, 2012.
  56. ^ Jacquelyn Smith, “The Top 100 Websites For Your Career,” Forbes, September 18, 2013.

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