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 how to keep looking, career malaise, [...]
Last week, Business Week ran a story titled: “The Lost Generation.” Gertrude Stein coined the term to describe the generation that came of age during and immediately after World War I.
Business Week used the term to refer to young people who would normally be entering the workforce but who can’t find a job. Here’s the [...]
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 branding yourself, executive job seekers’ biggest [...]
Today’s Wall Street Journal included an article titled: “Pile on Mentors in Tough Times.” Here’s the lead.
“In this economy, you need to take advantage of every available resource to propel your career. Finding a mentor—and preferably a network of mentors—is an easy and smart way to get started. And, it won’t set you back financially [...]
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 research findings on job hunting, online [...]
“God is in the details,” my mother would say when she was planning a dinner party or a reception for the people who attended my father’s church.
She was quoting Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, though it’s almost certain that the saying wasn’t original with him. It’s also attributed to Gustave Flaubert, the art historian Aby [...]
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 a business from home, early [...]
I know I’m smart. People have told me that my whole life. They mean it as a compliment. They treat it like an achievement.
But every time it happens, I think of my mother’s warning: “God gets credit for the smart part. You get credit for what you do with it.” From the vantage point of [...]
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 relocation expenses and contracts, interview questions, [...]
I call them the “Darwin shows.” They’re the TV shows that take several weeks to determine who the fittest of a particular type might be.
I don’t like all of them. I can do without the ones where people consume things that would gag a goat or the ones where over-the-hill athletes and television “personalities” I’ve [...]