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Is Your Accent Hurting Your Career?

Address the Accent

All it takes is one higher-up making an issue of your accent for you to lose your footing on the career ladder.

People with strong regional accents can be viewed as less refined or polished. So if you expect to leave the reservation for a job in a far off place, career coach Lee Miller says you should consider addressing the accent issue.