Alexandra Levit

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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

  • 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
  • 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

References

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External links

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