Make The Most Of Your College Experience
Deal with your emotions first.
No matter where you go to college you can have a phenomenal experience and leverage your degree to get hired. Every college offers opportunities to broaden your knowledge base, expand your analytic abilities and gain real-world experiences through internships. Adopting a proactive, positive attitude towards learning, meeting new people and …
Cassey Ho: Look Like a Beauty, Brand Like a Beast
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with YouTube sensation Cassey Ho, creator of POP Pilates and the Blogilates YouTube channel. With subscribers and views surpassing one million and 96 million respectively, Cassie has built a tribe of “POPsters” worldwide dedicated to maintaining an active lifestyle. I caught up with Cassey shortly after she wrapped …
Building an Artistic Career: An Interview with Tim Livingston
I recently sat down with Tim Livingston, an LA native who just produced his first theater production in New York City’s Off-Broadway Kraine Theater. The 100 seat theater enjoyed a successful sold out three night run that grabbed the attention of industry personalities from talent agencies, to casting companies. “The Protaganist” follows the life of …
Research Your Target List – The Targeted Job Search
Research your target list.
This is the third in the series on the Targeted Job Search.
If you have not already read the previous posts, please do that now:
Target the Company and Quit Chasing the Job Building your Target List – The Targeted Job SearchStep #2 in this process is to properly research …
5 Things To Know Before Accepting A Job Offer
Whether you’re starting your career or looking to improve your present one, you need to start looking out for yourself. After all, if you’re not for yourself, who will look out for you? But on the other hand if you’re only out for yourself, what kind of person are you? The wisdom behind these questions …
Ditch the Pitch: An Interview with Steve Yastrow
Recently, I had the privilege to connect with Steve Yastrow, a former marketing executive and the founder of Yastrow & Company, a consulting organization that helps businesses improve results through breakthrough marketing, customer relationship, and sales ideas. Steve’s new book, Ditch the Pitch: The Art of Improvised Persuasion, makes the case against a standard sales …
Personal Branding Weekly – Let It Go!
From Travoltified names to thousands of renditions, the anthem for this winter and early spring has been “Let it Go!” With the first quarter of 2014 closing, what goals or practices do you need to let go of for 2014? There are practices and behaviors that at one time served us well and now due …
What Your Personal Brand Needs Before Your Ideas Will Get Funded
If anyone asked me if there was a bet I could not lose, it would be this: all of you out there have amazing business ideas bouncing around your head.
How do I know this? Because – as someone who works in innovation – I have people tell me their ideas all the time. And …
Building Your Target List – The Targeted Job Search
Your target list should contain companies that could hire you. You should be looking for companies that are looking for your skill set. This is step one of Target the Company and Quit Chasing the Job or the Targeted Job Search.
Let’s cover four sources to find these companies.
1. Your friends…
Deathmatch: MBTI® versus DiSC®
In the Celebrity Deathmatch between Madonna and Michael Jackson, Michael turns into a hamster and Madonna is the easy winner. Likewise, in the world of assessments, there are clear winners and losers. What’s amazing to me is how few people ever write or speak about this subject. I believe that you can be more successful …