Rebecca Thorman gives career advice for the next generation of workers. Barely out of college, Rebecca job-hopped her way to becoming the Executive Director of MAGNET, an organization dedicated to attracting and retaining young talent in her region. During that time, she also began authoring the blog Modite, featured in several media outlets including the New York Times as the key community for Generation Y leadership. Rebecca is known for writing candidly from experience.
Outside of the workplace, she enjoys photography, reading, lip-synching, and above all, time with family and friends. Rebecca is from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and is living in Madison, WI. Rebecca speaks with companies, organizations and students on a variety of topics. You can contact Rebecca through her blog below.
Rebecca Thorman's blog is Modite.
Defining your own success is indeed as rare as successfully hanging curtains by yourself. I’ve been thinking about this, and the strange feeling of glee I have to own a new beginning where everything is different, yet exactly the same.
. . .and it’s not war, or terror, economic crisis, or the general misery and abyss that too often characterizes the world today.
As men are being hemorrhaged in blue-collar, white-collar, and gold-collar jobs, young women are picking up the slack, becoming both the providers and the glue for families.
Given the opportunity to change the world, would you take it? We all think we would, but it is so very hard to look in the face of what you truly desire, and take it.
Alexandra Levit is a twenty-something Career Expert and author of They Don’t Teach Corporate in College , and has just published a new book called How’d You Score That Gig?. She’s also one of the first people that was nice to me in the blogosphere. Below is a recent interview regarding her new book: RT: Why did you decide to write […]
I thought something would happen the last week of March, but what was supposed to happen didn’t.
See, I was supposed to figure out who the man of my dreams was this past week. Stop laughing. This is serious business. Last year, I felt overwhelmingly that this would happen in March or April, and as time […]
Here’s the thing. I work with a lot of men. During phone calls, I speak with men. For meetings, I sit down with men. At networking events, more men walk in the door than women. In particular, at entrepreneurial events there are lots and lots of men, and just one or two […]
As cash cows go, Gen Y is a big one, and cities are ignoring us – the young leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals and creatives – in their plans for economic development.Partnering with Gen Y should be of the utmost priority for cities since we are uniquely positioned to stimulate economic development […]
On the third round of interviews for my current job, my interviewer was a Boomer whose opinion as the head of a similar and larger organization was valuable to my future Board. After talking about Gen Y leadership, in which I blatantly quoted my blog to close the deal, she asked me what I would do […]
At the bottom of the hospital hierarchy are ER doctors. I know this because straight out of college I dated two med-students back to back. Also, Belle’s boyfriend is a neurosurgery resident. He never lets me forget it. Which is fine because I’m not the one who thinks that great veins are a turn on. An emergency […]
