Some Ideas When You Have No Idea About What To Do For Work
So, what would you say to someone who tells you they have no idea what theywant to do for work? That was the question posed to me by a recently downsizedjob seeker. Here are some things I would… Career Hub...
Little and Often
We’re all overwhelmed. Too many emails, too much information, alwaysconnected and constantly accessible via smart phones and laptops. Therecession, leaner organisations and the explosion of new media have simplyexacerbated the problem. Consequently two of the scarcest commodities… Career Hub...
Computer Crashes, Job Losses and Ducks in a Row
Just like that, my computer crashed. Died. Done. Dead. How could it be thatone minute I am rolling along full speed ahead and then, out of nowhere,absolutely nothing…zero, zip, nada. My tech friend at work verified same…”Yup,I’d… Career Hub...
15 People To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and notgiving it.” -William Arthur Ward 1. Your family and friends for supporting youthrough thick and thin. 2. Steve Jobs and Apple for proving that no one’s…Career Hub...
LinkedIn’s New Personal Branding Help
LinkedIn’s launch of a global group called BrandYou is a powerfulrecognition of the movement towards personal branding in careers and jobsearch. William Arruda, the Personal Brand Guru, extended Tom Peters conceptabout a decade ago and created a… Career Hub...
On Thanksgiving: 12 Thoughts
T Time to treasure and take stock of the abundance in your life. HHarnessing an attitude of thankfulness for all that you are, and can become. AAppreciating your assets, acknowledging your liabilities, always striving toimprove. N Never… Career Hub...
Party Hardly?
It was the mid-1990s, and I had one of my first “real jobs,” at a largepublishing company–I’d been at the company only a couple of months before theannual holiday party rolled around. I was anxious to make a good impression andwas drinking only cranberry juice mixed with sparkling water (a“mocktail”–very helpful for professional social events where drinks are servedand you don’t want to stand out as...
The Monster 5 for Friday–Careers Edition–October 29
We’ve been watching a lot of people vie, very publicly, for jobs in recentweeks–because that’s what election campaigns are: job interviews, in which we(the voting public) are the hiring managers–and we’re hiring politicians.Continue reading »...
Out of Work Graduates: 6 Quick Tips
Having graduated during the recession of the early 1990s, I can empathisewith many of today’s grads who are struggling to find work. And I seem to begetting lots of emails these days from out of work graduates seeking… Career Hub...
The Monster 5 for Friday–Careers Edition–November 19
The four most-populous U.S. states–California, Texas, New York, andFlorida–all added jobs last month for the first time since May, as the (painfully) slow economic recovery began to increase demandfor labor. And that’s good news. So if you think that it’s time to slowdown or pause your job search just because the holiday season is here, youshould think again. In fact, many experts think that the holiday sea...