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 finding your way in a tough [...]
The Wall Street Journal just published an excellent article by Diana Middleton titled: “Avoid these Interview Killers.” Here’ the opening paragraph.
“With so much competition for every job listing out there—there are more than 6.1 job seekers for every job opening, according to the latest job-opening and turnover data from the U.S. Department of Labor—wowing a [...]
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 what to do when you’re “overqualified,” [...]
Imagine a starry-eyed young couple gazing at their new baby. The mother turns to the father and says, “Oh John, I hope he grows up to be average.”
Hard to believe, isn’t it? We don’t start out with the idea that we’ll live a fiftieth percentile life. And yet, it happens.
You know the fiftieth percentile people. [...]
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 becoming a star, moonlighting and creativity, [...]
Debbie was little then. But she already had the radiant smile that would inspire her high school classmates to name her: “Girl most likely to get her picture on a Wheaties box.”
It was after church, and Debbie was charming anyone who came in range. I was acting the role of proud parent. One well-dressed older [...]
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 workplace myths, going back to school, [...]
When Henry Heinz got started, people didn’t buy horseradish or relish or pickles or other preserved foods in stores. They made them at home. And they were skeptical about any preserved food made anywhere else.
There was good reason for that distrust. Much commercial preserved food was awful. Some was even poisonous.
That gave Henry Heinz two [...]
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 saving a stalled job search, how [...]
Sometimes people who’ve met me in recent years have trouble imagining that I once wanted to be a Great American Poet. No one had heard of deliberate practice back then, but I set up a regimen to practice my poetry that even Anders Ericsson would love.
I took strips of paper and wrote the name of [...]