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4/8/10: Top Career Posts this Week

Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about getting a headhunter’s attention, getting notices, [...]

[ More ] April 8th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |

Superheroes and SuperYou

Who hasn’t wanted to be a superhero? It looks like fun.
You get to leap tall buildings at a single bound. Great stuff. Plus you can rescue your friends and save the Earth.
Now it’s entirely possible that some accident of fate has left you without those super powers you so richly deserve. Don’t worry. Don’t fret.
You [...]

[ More ] April 6th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |

4/1/10: Top Career Posts this Week

Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about interview questions, social media, unlocking your [...]

[ More ] April 1st, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |

One Great Performance

It was one of the finest performances of Sir Laurence Olivier’s life. And it was as Hamlet, his signature role. So his friends were amazed, when they rushed backstage, to find him in tears, rhythmically pounding his fist into his thigh.
“Larry,” one of his friends asked, “What’s wrong? That was the finest performance of your [...]

[ More ] March 30th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |

3/25/10: Top Career Posts this Week

Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about communicating with your boss, a Free [...]

[ More ] March 25th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |

Goldilocks, Structure, and Self-Discipline

After she breaks into the domicile of the Three Bears, Goldilocks makes herself at home. She eats their food, yummy porridge. More precisely, she eats some of it.
One bowl is too hot. Goldilocks passes on that one, along with the one where the porridge is “too cold.” Luckily for her, though not the bears, one [...]

[ More ] March 23rd, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |

3/18/10: Top Career Posts this Week

Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about cell phones and interviews, networking up, [...]

[ More ] March 18th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |

A Lesson in Decision Making from Number 28

A year ago, CJ Spiller had the opportunity to set himself up financially for life. All he had to do was say, “Yes” and enter the NFL draft.
But Spiller decided to stay at Clemson for his senior year. Lots of people, including his mother, thought he was crazy. Today newspapers like The State are running [...]

[ More ] March 16th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |

3/11/10: Top Career Posts this Week

Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about cover letters, going beyond the numbers, [...]

[ More ] March 11th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |

Jack’s Big Three

You’d like Jack. Everybody does.
Jack’s retired now, after a long, successful career at a Fortune 200 company. That’s where he developed a reputation for hiring great people.
I chased him for months to get him to sit down talk about what he looked for when he was hiring. Jack was reluctant. It seemed like bragging to [...]

[ More ] March 9th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Career & Mentoring |