7 Ways to Innovate and Prove You’re Worthy
The terrible truth of work is that almost anyone can do anything. I don’t want to make you paranoid, but open up the UCLA Extension course catalog, a MOOC or watch a few “how-to” YouTube videos, and you get my drift. Education and skills are the easiest things to acquire.
Leaving out advanced neurosurgery, the …
Why Networking is an Overrated Career Tool
Critical thinkers are a dying breed and logic is becoming a lost art. Ironically, we have more access to information than any generation. Whether it be at the gym, office or on the couch, we can readily access information, however we question the validity of what we read and hear less and less.
If I …
What we can learn from 40 years of SNL
40 years of anything is a long time.
It’s 5 years older than the oldest Millennial
Can you imagine doing anything for 40 years?
Saturday Night Live Just Turned 40
What can we learn from SNL turning 40? Plenty!
“The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.”
~ Lorne …
24 Life Questions To Answer Before It’s Too Late
As a career coach and business communications expert, I often surprise people by knowing something about them that they have never told me – and maybe never told anyone else. I am not psychic. I am empathetic.
When I ask you a question, and your brain re-routes it to give me an unrelated answer: I …
Digital Branding for the Job Seeker Part 3
Part 3: Registering, Naming, Designing and Optimizing Your Career Blog
Understanding the importance of having a positive web image is half the equation, the other half is being able to execute on that knowledge. Below, you’ll find the first few steps on how to create a digital brand via formulating a career website and taking …
Why Unvites are OK and When to Use Them
There are times when you realize you need to pull back.
When you realize you might have gone too far.
I’m talking about LinkedIn invites. And that you might want to Withdraw one, two or a few of them every so often.
And, there is nothing wrong with this.
Reality Check 1:
Have you ever …
Value of Using ‘Canned’ Answers to Interview FAQs
In our executive recruiting firm, The HTW (Hire to Win) Group, we consistently coach candidates presented to our hiring company clients on how to effectively use rehearsed—sometimes derogatorily referred to as “canned”—answers to interview questions that can be predicted and anticipated with almost absolute certainty. Suffice it to say, not all candidates readily embrace this …
Career Mistakes You Should Avoid
Having a successful career is a long journey and this journey has many phases and turn points. In order to reach the ultimate point, you need to make smart moves and consider your decisions carefully. If you try to take risky short-cuts and make mistakes, these leave marks on your careers that are hard to …
When Confidence Becomes a Career Liability
The drive to be perceived as strong is becoming ever more prevalent in today’s society and is especially present in some members of our younger generation.
In theory, confidence has its merits and is a necessary quality for successful leadership. It can provide people with the resiliency needed to complete complex tasks even in the …
Capitalizing on The War for Talent
There is a hot conversation going on in a lot of businesses.
Most every business is facing a challenge related to hiring, retaining and training employees.
And, if they don’t feel the pain now they will in a few years. It is estimated that by 2020 there will be shortfall of 18 million people to …