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About khalilahstarks

Khalilah Starks, HR guru and founder of High Powered Professional, is a career expert dedicated to helping professionals find and follow their career bliss. Khalilah is a career success enthusiast and loves all topics related to personal and professional development. She has served as a career expert on a CBS Morning News Show and has been featured in several national online and print publications.

When It’s Time To Move On

By | February 7th, 2011|Categories: Career Advice|

By Khalilah Starks "I love my job!" Unfortunately, these are words that few professionals seem to utter nowadays. I, for one, have found myself miserable at an employer or two. Every Monday, I anxiously anticipated Friday. Every Friday, I exhaled – I had made it through another week. Every Sunday, I wondered where my weekend had [...]

Khalilah Starks Was Featured On The WCIA Morning News Show!

By | February 6th, 2011|Categories: Career Advice|

I, once again, had the pleasure of appearing on the WCIA Morning News Show! The topic - How to work a career fair! This is a great month to focus on Career Fairs as many colleges across the country will be holding career fairs over the next couple of months. In fact, the day of my [...]

How To Really Work A Career Fair!

By | January 27th, 2011|Categories: Career Advice|

By Khalilah Starks It’s that time of year again! Career Fairs will be taking place across the United States, including many college campuses. So, to help you get the most out of your next career fair experience and stand out among the hundreds of job seekers in black suits, I’ve put together a list of proven [...]

High Powered Professional Mover & Shaker: James Chatman

By | January 24th, 2011|Categories: Movers & Shakers|

James Chatman is a High Powered Professional Mover & Shaker in technology. Mr. Chatman is Manager of Technical Services for Albemarle County Public Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia where he reports directly to the Chief Information Officer. He has enjoyed an exceptional career with the Albemarle County Public School system being promoted 3 times over a span [...]

Your Resume: Should You DIY (Do it Yourself) Or Call A Professional?

By | January 18th, 2011|Categories: Career Advice|

By Khalilah Starks When I think of DIY (Do it Yourself), I think of Home Depot. As you walk through that store, there’s a plethora of DIY kits for the home project enthusiast to create or repair just about anything in the home. When it comes to my home, I would definitely define myself as a [...]

Ace Your Next Interview: Handling Negative Questions

By | January 12th, 2011|Categories: Career Advice|

By Khalilah Starks We’re always ready to talk about our successes and achievements when interviewing. But, what about the questions that focus on our mess ups. Questions like…give me an example of a project that you were on that failed or tell me about a time when you tried to accomplish something but failed. Now, I [...]

Ace Your Next Behavioral Interview: Reach For The Stars

By | January 10th, 2011|Categories: Career Advice|

By Khalilah Starks Give me an example of a difficult problem that you solved. Describe a time when you went above and beyond the call of duty to please a customer. Tell me about a time when it was important for you to take a stand. These are all examples of Behavioral Based questions. Many companies [...]

Khalilah Starks was featured on the WCIA Morning News Show

By | January 4th, 2011|Categories: Career Advice|

It's the beginning of 2011! So, I took the opportunity to discuss Career Resolutions on the WCIA Morning Show. If you haven't read my post about Career Resolutions, it's an absolute must read!

Ten Tips To Help You Make and Keep Your New Year’s Career Resolutions

By | January 2nd, 2011|Categories: Career Advice|

By Khalilah Starks Happy New Year! Every year, many people set New Year’s resolutions regarding all aspects of life including losing weight and financial budgeting. For career savvy professionals, the new year can be a great time to set resolutions regarding your professional growth. Whether you’re looking to jump ship or position yourself for that next [...]

High Powered Professional Mover & Shaker: Jasmin French

By | January 2nd, 2011|Categories: Movers & Shakers|

Jasmin French is a high powered Entrepreneur who founded her own personal branding consulting firm in Chicago, J FRENCH, to assist peak performers in leveraging the value of their accomplishments to get noticed, hired, referred, promoted and be held in a greater regard. Ms. French is a well sought out authority on personal branding and has [...]