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 gauging relationships, your name in personal [...]
It’s a typical frantic, modern Christmas season, full of parties and errands and things to buy. It was simpler for the Cratchits.
You probably remember the Cratchits from Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Poor Bob Cratchit worked for the man who has given his name to anti-revelry, no-joy, cheapness: Ebenezer Scrooge.
Cratchit didn’t make much working for Scrooge, about [...]
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 starting the New Year with a [...]
It’s the Holiday Season here in the US. There are parties and gift buying and taking time to be with family. And there’s job hunting, too.
If you’re looking for a new job, the holidays present some special challenges. Your mission is to adapt your job hunt to the conditions of the season.
The business world slows [...]
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 new ways to do resumes, different [...]
If he were still alive, I’m betting Ray Charles would have another hit with this little ditty, sung to the tune of “Crying Time.”
Oh it’s survey time again, we’re gonna learn who
Is the best leadership company of all.
But I can tell by the lists I see before me
That this one’s different from the one last [...]
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 dealing with holes in your resume, [...]
In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins borrows the concept of foxes and hedgehogs from Isaiah Berlin. “The fox knows many things,” he tells us. “But the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
If you are a fox, and good at a lot of things, you may find it hard to get a job. Your resume [...]
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 taking care of yourself, deciding when [...]
When it comes to thankfulness, I am my mother’s child. She taught me to begin every prayer with thanks. I follow her example to write at least three thank you notes every day.
Now scientists are telling us that mom may have been on to something. Dr. Robert Emmons, from UC Davis, and his colleague Michael [...]