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Ryan Healy
Ryan Healy is the Co-Founder/COO of Brazen Careerist and regularly writes about careers, young professionals and entrepreneurship. He has been named one of 20 Entrepreneurs To Watch by Worth Magazine, and has been featured on 60 Minutes, 20/20, CNN and PBS Nightly News. Before Brazen, Ryan graduated from Pennsylvania State University, and was a Consultant for IBM Business Consulting Services. Follow Ryan on Twitter or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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Forget Work-Life Balance And Build A Lifestyle
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | November 12, 2009
This post was originially posted at Employee Evolution In a recent talk, Tony Hsieh, the CEO and founder of Zappos was asked about how the company manages work-life balance. Hsieh replied, “For most companies (work-life balance) implies that work must suck so much you need a life on the outside. At Zappos we’re more focused on creating [...] Read »
We’re Live! Check Out the New Brazen Careerist Right Now.
By Ryan Healy | 3 Comments | August 25, 2009
As most of you know, Brazen Careerist has been live since March 2008. But, really, we just launched it today. The site has gone from an idea, to a tiny aggregator of 50 Gen Y bloggers, to a network of thousands with social networking features like profiles and groups. And now, we’re taking the giant [...] Read »
Brazen Groups Are Live!
By Ryan Healy | 1 Comment | June 10, 2009
If you didn’t join the private beta launch of Brazen Groups, I highly recommend you go check out the live version today! We officially opened groups up to all members of Brazen Careerist this morning, and we’re really excited to see how they evolve. Groups give our community the ability to create whatever content they [...] Read »
Generation Y Is Annoying to Manage, But That’s a Good Thing
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | June 2, 2009
This post was originally posted at Employee Evolution Generation Y is annoying to manage. We’re annoying to manage because, get this; we actually want people to manage us! Gen Y grew up very close with our parents, and we got a ton of feedback from teachers, coaches etc. Because of this, managers are encountering entry-level [...] Read »
Brazen Turns One, And a Request For Some Community Feedback
By Ryan Healy | 1 Comment | March 19, 2009
Brazen is officially one-year-old this month. We actually launched the site on March 1, 2008, so I’m a couple of weeks late with this announcement, but better late than never. If you were with us the first day we launched you’ll remember the photo on the front page was of a woman in a tank-top [...] Read »
10 More Ways Generation Y Will Change the Workplace
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | February 26, 2009
This post was originally posted at Employee Evolution Last May, I wrote a post titled 10 Ways Generation Y Will Change the Workplace. It received a lot of attention and more importantly a lot of conversation. The gist of the post was not to say that Generation Y is great and we will make everything better. Rather, it [...] Read »
Welcome To The Official Team Brazen Blog
By Ryan Healy | 8 Comments | February 23, 2009
It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally launched the official Team Brazen Blog. After a year of telling companies how important it is for them to blog, we figured we would drink the Kool-aid and start one too. Most of the team has a unique online identity. And as Dan Schawbel would tell [...] Read »
6 Ways to Fit in when you’re the Youngest Person in the Room
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | February 16, 2009
This post was originally posted at Employee Evolution I do a lot of speeches and meetings where I’m educating people much older than me on a specific topic. So it’s important for me to appear competent, knowledgeable and quite frankly, older than I actually am. Over the past two years, I’ve learned a few things [...] Read »
Employer Branding: It’s All About the Story
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | February 9, 2009
This post was originally posted at Employee Evolution Take a look at the newest Best Places to Work list by Fortune and you will see an interesting pattern. More often than not, the same companies show up on the list every year, and its not a coincidence. Sure, these companies are probably pretty good places to work, [...] Read »
5 Things Small-City Companies Can Do to Recruit Gen Y
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | January 15, 2009
This post was originally posted at Employee Evolution Most high performing people don’t stick around one place their whole lives anymore. They’re generally attracted to large cities with like-minded people. Because of this, companies based in small cities need to work especially hard to recruit top talent. But from my experience, if the right job [...] Read »