Posts Tagged ‘self improvement’
Money Magazine: Age-Proof Your Career
The issue of age and the job search is a hot topic in the job search world lately. Age is one of those variables we have little control over and everyone will have the frustrating experience of being judge by age (too young or too old) as opposed to skill and capability. (And of course [...]
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Why Should they Care?
I am an introvert. No kidding. Personally, I don’t find networking to be very natural. As a result, I need to have a clearer sense of purpose and see better results in order to find it worthwhile.
Some great networkers believe the universe is working in their favor and they just need to put their “energy” out there and good things [...]
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Pick Up the That Outdated Old Phone & Get a Job
In the last couple of weeks I have had conversations with several twenty-somethings about professional communications and the job search. I was shocked but should not have been surprised when they told me how uncomfortable they are talking on the phone.
Why? Because this group rarely uses the phone to communicate verbally to one another. They [...]
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“Up in the Air” – The Movie
If you haven’t yet, you must see George Clooney’s movie “Up in the Air” – the story about a charming corporate road-warrior hired by spineless managers to fire their employees.
I saw it last weekend and as someone who spent 18 years witnessing thousands of people lose their jobs it was very hard to watch and [...]
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Rainy Day Job Search
I am in Seattle today, my old home town. I love this place with the grey skies, moss on the sidewalks and the really good restaurants tucked away on side Seattle streets with the rain dampened sound of the city and the faint sweet smell (at least to me) of low tide in the distance.
I met [...]
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Personality Traits and Traitors
Once again I came across someone who tried to not-so-patiently to explain why networking in job search would not work for their personality type. They were a technical person who suggested those in technical trades are more comfortable facing a keyboard and screen than facing another person in a networking conversation. Further, they suggested that [...]
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Really Crappy Advice — And How To Keep It From Killing You
In recent weeks I’ve been watching events unfold in Sedona — that whole James Arthur Ray thing and how people died in an ersatz sweat lodge. I suppose for many people, a terrible event such as this (where people paid $9,000 for the privilege of dying a horrible death, surrounded in the gloom by their [...]
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