The Accolade Blog
Career advice, promotion strategies, and self-advocacy guides from coaches and professionals.
You're Being Evaluated All Year. Are You Preparing All Year?
Performance reviews aren't decided in the two weeks before the meeting — they're decided by the 50 weeks of work that came before it. Here's how to treat career preparation as a year-round practice, not a seasonal scramble.
The Receipt: Week of July 17, 2026
This week's top career and workplace stories, with commentary on what they mean for professionals who document their work and advocate for themselves.
The Mid-Career Trap: Why High Performers Plateau
Early in your career, progress is almost automatic. Then somewhere in the middle, it stops. The rules changed and nobody told you — here's what's actually happening and how to get moving again.
The Receipt: Week of July 10, 2026
This week's top career and workplace stories, with commentary on what they mean for professionals who document their work and advocate for themselves.
The Receipt: Week of June 26, 2026
This week's top career and workplace stories, with commentary on what they mean for professionals who document their work and advocate for themselves.
Introducing Application Insights: Know Your Fit Before You Apply
We shipped the biggest update to Accolade since launch — a fully redesigned Application Tracker and a new Pro feature that matches every job you're pursuing to the wins you've already documented.
The Receipt: Week of June 19, 2026
This week's top career and workplace stories, with commentary on what they mean for professionals who document their work and advocate for themselves.
What is a STAR story (and why does every interview story hinge on it)?
Recruiters keep asking for them. Most candidates wing it. Here's the four-part structure behind every memorable interview answer — and how to build a library you can pull from on demand.
Your Résumé Is Not Your Career Story. This Is.
Most job seekers approach a career transition the same way: panic, open a Google Doc, stare at a blank page, and try to reconstruct it from memory.
SMART Goals Are Only Smart If You Actually Use Them
When SMART goals are applied seriously, they change how you work, how you communicate your progress, and how clearly you can demonstrate your impact when it counts.
The Receipt: Week of June 12, 2026
This week's top career and workplace stories, with commentary on what they mean for professionals who document their work and advocate for themselves.
The Receipt: Week of June 5, 2026
This week's top career and workplace stories, with commentary on what they mean for professionals who document their work and advocate for themselves.
How to Make Your 1:1s Actually Work for You
Most professionals treat their weekly 1:1 with their manager as a status update meeting. You run through what you're working on, your manager nods, an
The Receipt: Week of May 29, 2026
This week's top career and workplace stories, with commentary on what they mean for professionals who document their work and advocate for themselves.
The Brag Document: What It Is and Why You Need One
Somewhere around 2019, the idea of a "brag document" started circulating in tech circles.
The Receipt: Week of May 22, 2026
This week's top career and workplace stories, with commentary on what they mean for professionals who document their work and advocate for themselves.
Why the Best Career Coaches Are Adding Documentation to Their Practice
If you're a career coach, you already know the moment. A client comes to you frustrated — passed over for a promotion they deserved, stumbling through
The Receipt: Week of May 15, 2026
Meta cutting jobs, Microsoft buys out 9,000 employees, AI cited as top reason for job cuts and more, in this week's edition of the Receipt.
How to write a self-review that gets you promoted
Most self-reviews are forgettable. Not because the work was forgettable — but because the person writing it waited too long and remembered too little.
When Your Work Speaks for Itself (But Nobody's Listening)
Your work doesn't have a voice. It doesn't walk into calibration meetings. It doesn't tap your skip-level on the shoulder and say "hey, did you know what I pulled off last quarter?"
The Receipt: Week of May 8, 2026
The AI interview is here, tech is hiring in specialized roles, half of US workers are "job hugging" and more, in this week's edition of the Receipt.
Why I built Accolade
I've spent my entire career thus far in marketing, and watched the same pattern repeat: brilliant people do meaningful work and still get overlooked when it counts. I built Accolade in my 5-to-9 because proof should come before the conversation, not after.
How to Prep for an Interview Using Your Own Career History
Most interview prep starts in the wrong place. People read lists of common behavioral questions and walk into the interview assuming they'll figure it out live.
Not all impact is loud
Some of the most essential work in any organization happens quietly — and that's worth saying out loud. Every organization has roles that don't come w
How to have a great performance review
Performance reviews make a lot of people anxious. They don't have to. In fact, when you approach one with the right mindset and preparation, a review