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 grit, how to avoid becoming a [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a giant of American letters. He was an essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of Transcendentalist movement of the early 19th century. But the quotation that most people associate with Emerson is this one.
“If a man build a better mousetrap, though he live in a cottage, deep in the woods, the world [...]
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 the future of the workplace, tips [...]
You hear the phrase at parties. It shows up in text messages and tweets and emails. People get stuck in jobs they hate, but can’t leave. That only happens more often in a whitewater economy.
If that’s your situation, what should you do? Coach extraordinaire Shaun Kieran, likens the situation to being on a desert island.
Desert [...]
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 (or not), credit [...]
Joseph Campbell was a mythologist by profession. He studied and wrote about comparative religion and comparative mythology.
Because he was both a prolific and engaging fellow, many people know him through video and audio tapes with titles like The Masks of God and The Hero’s Journey. They also picked up his philosophy, “Follow your bliss.”
The idea [...]
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 more productive, being an interesting [...]
Who are you? What’s your personal brand?
If you’re employed, a personal brand is your identity. You want it to help you keep the job you have and advance to something better.
If you’re looking for work, a personal brand is the face you present to potential employers. You want it to show your strengths and employability.
That’s [...]
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 one successful job search, giving a [...]
Social media is a hot buzz phrase. Sometimes we talk about social media like they’re technology. Other times we act as if social media are a separate world, where “followers” are a goal and “to friend” is a verb.
If you think that way, you’ll miss the main advantage of social media. Used well, they can [...]