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Anaïs Neumann: "Your personal brand is the way people remember you from your interactions with them."

Anaïs Neumann is Global Head of Executive Recruiting at HelloFresh, as well as a career coach and a Femme Palette mentor who also delivered a brilliant talk on personal branding at our first-ever career conference held in Berlin. In this interview, we talked to Anaïs not only about her recruiting background and career path, but also insider tips, her coaching approach, personal branding advice, and more.
Femme Palette
August 13, 2023
Mentoring

Mentoring in marketing: Meet marketing experts from our mentor community

With a global mentor community from different backgrounds, our mentors have different experiences to share with their mentees making every mentoring experience unique. To give you a glimpse of our diverse mentor community, we introduce to you 12 of our mentors in the field of marketing.
Femme Palette
August 13, 2023
Stories

Olga Maximova: “We need to support bravery in women, not perfection.”

Olga Maximova is a Femme Palette mentor and Head of Nonprofit Development at Czechitas. In this spotlight interview, we asked Olga about working in non-profit, what needs to change to attract more women to the tech industry, what opportunities there are available, and much more.
Femme Palette
August 13, 2023
Diversity and inclusion

Designing a successful female returnship program

Have you heard of the term “returnship” before? It refers to the return-to-work program that supports professionals who want to return to workplaces after a prolonged career break. The program is available to everyone, but most often to women through a female returnship program supporting mothers keen to come back to work. What is a successful returnship program for women, and how to properly design it? Let’s dig deeper to understand.
Julia Gumeniuk
August 13, 2023
Career

Beyond LinkedIn: Leveraging Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter to Build Your Personal Brand

In this piece, we will discuss creating your online image and share tips on how to stand out from the hundreds of social media profiles, connect with your audience, and maintain consistency by representing your expertise, personality, and values.
Sofia Chesnokova
August 13, 2023
Diversity and inclusion

5 Questions to Find Out if You’re an Authentic Ally

Our DEI Palette Club recently organised a panel discussion on how to be an authentic ally with Magda Stega, Kimberly Johnson, and Rana Oszeker. During the discussion, many insightful tips were shared on what it means to be an authentic ally, how people can avoid performative allyship, what concrete steps people can take to be an authentic ally, and how authentic allyship can benefit the organisation. Inspired by our discussion, I put together an authentic allyship checklist to help you assess your own authenticity as an ally. 
Rose Smith
April 2, 2024
Career

Navigating job hopping: tips from a recruiter

Job hopping is becoming a widespread and popular phenomenon on today’s job market. What are its benefits? And how can you present it in interviews in a way that won’t hurt your reputation? Recruiter Petra Dočkalová shares her perspective and tips below.
Petra Dockalova
August 13, 2023
Mentoring

Femme Palette’s most active mentors share highlights, impact, and benefits of mentoring

Last time we talked with some of our most active mentors about their experiences, and learned some wonderful insights about mentoring. We decided to pick up the conversation again with three other mentors who are among the most active - meet Pavla, Adriana, and Simon, and learn how mentoring has enriched them, which mentoring moments they cherish the most, and how working with a mentor can impact you.
Femme Palette
August 13, 2023