Are You Indispensable? Add Value Wherever You Can
“Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.” Pat Riley
Every employee can improve their standing in the workplace by adhering to certain adaptable work place practices. These ideas may seem obvious at first glance but implementing them in ones daily routine is not easy. It requires discipline and a conviction …
Do You Have Any Questions? Preparing Questions for Interviews
When getting ready for an interview, it is important to not only prepare yourself to answer the questions you may be asked, but also questions that you can ask the people who are interviewing you. Many job seekers get so excited about finally getting an interview opportunity that they forget that interviewing is a two-way …
What’s Worse than No Plan?
There are times in life when it’s great to have no plan. Days at the beach, drives in the car, and if you are lucky … the time to be able to spend weeks exploring back roads at your leisure.
Take advantage of those times while you can. However, for most people, they don’t last …
Mistakes of a Lifetime
We all make mistakes: but not all mistakes are of the same nature, carry the same consequences or hurt ourselves and others to the same degree. And to rub salt in the wound, we might add that there are some mistakes – the mistakes of a lifetime – for which there does not seem to …
6 Ways to Freshen Up Your Online Profile for Fall
Change is good. And changing things up on your online profile can attract attention, whether it’s a recruiter or an angel investor or some new followers.
This fall brings many good reasons for freshening up our online images: Stepped up networking events, new or renewed emphasis on career goals and of course, the expectation that …
How to Conduct a ‘Stealth’ Job Search
Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.
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How do you go about finding a new job when you already have one? Very, very carefully, …
Is Your Personal Brand Going to Make You Obsolete?
Caution: Is your personal brand going to drive your success throughout your working life, or–at some point–is your brand going to make you obsolete?
Today, thanks to Dan Schawbel’s pioneering efforts, a lot of attention is paid to building personal brands. An equal amount of attention is paid to addressing the issues involved in maintaining …
Top Strategies to Grow Recognition
Being in business is a continual challenge to keep learning and growing while generating revenue. Even with doing most everything right, plateaus are reached and it becomes a renewed challenge to move forward. What are the secrets of the once smaller companies that grew big and became a recognized entity?
Keep these tips in mind …
Spin Negative Publicity Like Princess Kate
Kate Middleton’s most recent tabloid scandal involved pictures of the princess topless on vacation in France with Prince William. First published in the French magazine Closer, the pictures became an instant sensation. Although Closer was ordered to remove the photos, several other magazines — including the Irish magazine Chi and Irish newspaper Irish Star Daily …
Oh Canada, Why Did I Say That?
You might think of Canada as a suburb of the USA, after all that is for the most part, the way we treat it. It seems to be moving through space just a bit north of us. Canada has cowboys, entrepreneurs, waiters, teachers and the assortment of “ologists” and others we have.
But on my …