networking
When Networking, the World Might Not Seem So Small (After All)
Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” ride is where guests ride passively in a half-sunken barge through a darkened canal to an endless choir of animatronic dolls singing the same verses over and over and over again. I wonder in awe at the ability of that darn song to get trapped in the subconscious. Can you hear it [...]
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The Straight Line Job Search
I had a client who just hated networking. This was not new of course, but he was really serious about it. He did not like to ask for favors. He did not like the fuzziness of it and it seem to him like a bit of a crap-shoot to meet with people in hopes that [...]
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Find the Job You Like Through People You Like.
When looking for a job we like and a successful career we usually think about skills, knowledge and motivation. I guess this makes sense. After all, jobs are about what we do. Work is the application of skills and knowledge.
The reasoning therefore, is to find organizations, that need your knowledge and skills and you will be [...]
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If You Can’t Be Choosy About Your Job, Be Choosy About Your Friends
I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday week. As for me, I’m spending much of it doing my all-time favorite thing. No, not eating – which does happen to come in at a close second. I’ve been reading. And I spent much of Christmas Day reading Kay Redfield Jamison’s book, Nothing Was the Same. And [...]
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What to Do When You’re Flat Out of Friends
(This post is based on some of the principles included in the new book, Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough which I wrote with Duncan Mathison. For a free sample chapter, click here )
If you’ve been following my posts, you’ll know that I’ve been writing [...]
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Are You Too Shy to Network?
My friend Patricia Varley is probably the only person I would call a natural networker. Her worldly possessions have been in storage for most of the last 10 years as she goes where her heart tells her to (always beautiful places: Hawaii; Aspen; Naples, FL; San Diego; hey! Why not?). Jobs and projects fall into [...]
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Why “Job Clubs” Are Bad For You
Not that you need the assist, but let’s make this really simple anyway. If you were desperately looking for a gallon of milk, where would you go? To a place where other people who were desperately looking for milk are hanging out? I’m guessing probably not. You’d probably go where there’s milk. Or at least [...]
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Discouraged? How to Re-Energize Your Job Search
Did you happen to see NY Times article about how the nation is flooded with millions of would-be job seekers who have just plain given up? No? Well. Don’t bother. It’s a bummer. (But I linked this article to the online page anyway, just in case you’re like me and you just have to take [...]
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