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" Take Risks That Scare You &amp;quot;Life is too short to play it safe! If you don&amp;#039;t have a little fear, then you&amp;#039;re not pushing yourself hard enough. I had a great job in New York right after college, and when I had the opportunity to move out to Silicon Valley and work for Facebook, it was a huge risk. It was a small company at the time, but I just really believed in following my heart and taking that chance. You never want to look back at the end of your life and say &amp;#039;Gee, I wish I&amp;#039;d taken that risk or been with that company, or started my own thing&amp;#039;\u2014just do it now.&amp;quot; Turn Challenges Into Opportunities &amp;quot;You can choose to look at things in life as either a challenge or an opportunity. I&amp;#039;ve faced plenty of challenges in my career: For example there were a lot of times early on at the company that I would show up to a meeting, and, with my name being Randi, they would expect to be meeting a guy. I would almost see a look of disappointment on their face when in walked a 25-year-old woman! I got used to that kind of reaction.&amp;quot; Embrace Your Girl Power &amp;quot;If you are going into a field that dominated by men being a girl gives you the chance to stand out a bit more and get more opportunities. Conferences are always looking for female speakers! You don&amp;#039;t have to limit yourself to being a programmer or coder to go into the technology profession. It used to be that the engineers were the rockstars in Silicon Valley, but over the next few years, it&amp;#039;s going to be designers\u2014and that&amp;#039;s something that women are innately and inherently great at.&amp;quot; Use Social Media &amp;quot;One thing I love about the tech world is there really is no other profession out there where by writing just one line of code, you can reach a billion people with your program! Every movement can start out as one tweet, one message\u2014words are so powerful today, and all of us have a giant megaphone thanks to social media.&amp;quot; Don&amp;#039;t Limit Yourself &amp;quot;Life is such an incredible journey of always learning and always rediscovering yourself! I read something about how the average person will have somewhere between 4 to 7 jobs by the time they&amp;#039;re 30. If you start at a big company but are thinking of entrepreneurship down the way, try to learn from other departments, too. Don&amp;#039;t just get sucked into what you&amp;#039;re doing in your job every day.&amp;quot; Don&amp;#039;t Let Others Put You In A Box &amp;quot;Sadly, we still live in a world with double standards. As a man, if you&amp;#039;re assertive you&amp;#039;re powerful, but as a woman if you do that, you&amp;#039;re aggressive and attention-seeking. Don&amp;#039;t let the people around you put you in a box! Only you can define you. If you want to be an author and a television producer, and an entrepreneur\u2014do it all! Don&amp;#039;t let anyone tell you that you have to pick just one.&amp;quot; Give People A Reason To Take You Seriously &amp;quot;I definitely had to get a few successes under my belt before people took me seriously. There are a lot of reasons you might feel like you should have already earned people&amp;#039;s respect\u2014like going to a good college and being super smart\u2014but, realistically, early on in our careers especially, you&amp;#039;re are still earning the respect of your colleagues. Even tiny victories, like boosting the company&amp;#039;s social media following, get people respecting you more!&amp;quot; Reach Out To Whomever You Want To Work For &amp;quot;Social media gives a great opportunity for you to speak directly to the company and your business idols. If there&amp;#039;s a company that you have your eye on or someone you think would be an awesome mentor, social media makes it easier than ever to connect with them. Be aggressive in speaking out to role models and companies, because you never know what it could turn into in the future!&amp;quot; Find Your Girl Gang &amp;quot;Form a group of young women who all agree to support and promote one an other. That way, you feel like you&amp;#039;re not always the one out there tooting your own horn\u2014you have a group who will toot it for you. I have a really strong group of fellow female entrepreneurs and whenever I see one of them has a success, I tweet about it and share about it, and when I have a success, I&amp;#039;ll turn to them and ask if they can spread the word for me as well. It&amp;#039;s more powerful when other people say great things about you than when you say them about yourself.&amp;quot; More Girl Power! What To Wear To Score Your Dream Job See Pics From Selena&amp;#039;s March Seventeen Cover How To Get Important People To Look Past Your Age The Seventeen Girl Power List "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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