Sep

15

Switch careers before it is too late.

September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

If you wake up one morning and think you may be on the wrong career for very important reasons: you may be.  And it may be better to jump ship while there are lifeboats available.  You do not want to find yourself without a job and trying to go back to the same career you [...]

Sep

4

Those Jobs Will Never Come Back – New Ones Will

September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

National unemployment rate jumps to 9.7%.  If you count those that are working part time or gave up looking for a job, it jumps to 16.8% – and you can probably keep increasing that number if you count the people who where not even intending to work.  I think this nation is having a difficult [...]

Aug

31

If You are So Smart, Why Don’t You Take His Job?

August 31, 2009 | Comments Off

Many acquaintances complaint about the poor management of the companies for which they work. I feel bad for them for two reasons:

If management is really bad, you should run for cover — or at least a better job. Bad management tends to destroy companies and with them the jobs of the people working for them. [...]

Aug

20

A Door

August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

One of the most important things to visualize in business (or employment, where you trade your time for money) is a Door.  Some mornings I even draw a door on the notebook paper I am bringing to the meeting, just to keep it as a reminder of my real Door.  With Door I mean, the [...]

Jul

22

Networking Events: Some Are Not Worth It

July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

The Situation:
With a networking event I mean those by open invitation, where you pay a small fee for a couple of hours of chit-chat with fellow networkers and spill out your 30 second elevator speech hundreds of times while guzzling appetizers and drinking cheap wine (others describe it similarly). If you are lucky, the [...]

Jul

10

Can you survive on your own?

July 10, 2009 | Comments Off

Independently I mean. Without the help of your parents? And without the help of adoptive parents in the way of an employer? No shame in accepting that you can’t: most people can’t. However, it is an interesting mental exercise, and an interesting idea to explore.  In an age of almost 10% [...]

Jul

9

I am bored: I can do my daily job in 2 hours!

July 9, 2009 | Comments Off

I have heard from many people:  I can do my daily job in 2 hours.  That is one of the reasons many people arrive late to work, leave early, and spend so much time on facebook or shopping on amazon.com.  I know it, because I have been in that situation at some point in my [...]

Jul

9

Flexible Time Pittfalls

July 9, 2009 | Comments Off

Many companies give their employees the option to work a flexible time schedule instead of a 9 to 5 one. This is all good when the company operates in extended business hours (as in 7 to 7 or nights and weekends). However, for the traditional business world that still runs on a 9 to [...]

Jul

8

The Importance of Travel In Your Career

July 8, 2009 | Comments Off

Few things have propelled my career more than my willingness to travel. I think there are many reasons why you might want to become travel-flexible. And when I mean travel flexible I do mean the less glamorous parts of traveling: being away from family a few weeks at a time, having to wake up at [...]

Jul

7

Job Hunting Checklist

July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment

To get a good job we need experience and education and a strong willingness to succeed.  But unless we learn how to express those things no one else will recognize them, and no one else will know you are the right person for a job.  There are many things we can do to learn how [...]

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