Entrepreneurial Vision? Take A Crappy Sales Job
They call them “churn” positions, sales jobs where there is an expectation that most will be unsuccessful. They are horrible places to work and you’ll likely burn out before the end of your first year. I’m going to recommend that you take one of these horrible jobs before you ever think of becoming an entrepreneur.…
4 Words You Never Say to Your Boss!
You don’t repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently – and I think that is what is going to make the difference.–Patricia Hewitt
I’m sharing an experience I had with a recent client to highlight the following career …
Don’t Let a Layoff Catch You Off Guard
The other day while at work, a friend of mine grabbed some papers from the fax machine and noticed a resume submission for her job. A few days later, she observed her boss interviewing the person for a job. Putting two and two together, she determined that her job was in trouble. In a preemptive …
Things I’ve Learned about Business from Hiking
Summer is THE time to get your hike on in the Pacific Northwest. The rest of the year is pretty good for hiking too, but summer days are often clear and have the best views.
Like all great plans for fun they seem to take a back seat to other plans. As such… my son …
Building Your Personal Brand When Things Go Wrong
Corporate and personal brand building is easy on sunny days when everything is proceeding on schedule.
This is true, whether you’re an employee, a self-employed professional, or a huge corporation–like one of the largest airlines in the world.
The real test of a brand’s commitment to brand building customer service is when everything goes wrong…like …
5 Soft Skills to Emphasize in Your Brand
In job search materials like a resume and cover letter, we tend to focus a lot of our attention on including the hard skills listed in the job description. We want to prove we can do the job, so we focus on the hard skills more than anything else. The problem with this logic is …
Why Women Falter In the Face of Opportunity
PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ chairman and senior partner Bob Moritz was sent to Japan, after a slow start in his career at the firm. It was about six years into his tenure, and he really did not want to go. When he arrived, he had a difficult time even trying to fit in with his Japanese colleagues. Everything …
The Optimistic vs Pessimistic Job Applicant
There are two ways to look at life, one’s job search and the inevitable interviewing rejection each job seeker incurs. The first is to imagine the worst and be prone to depression when we encounter each roadblock. The second is to look at interviewing rejection as a temporary setback and to leverage that disappointment into …
Easy to Imagine, Hard to Achieve
I saw a picture of someone “Hanging 10” on a surfboard today and it got me thinking. Thinking about how fun that would be to do. Also realizing how hard it is to actually do it.
I’ve been surfing since I was a kid and I know how hard it is to hang 5, let …
Job Seeker “Employment Date Codes”
I like milk. For my entire life I have purchased it based upon the date code on the carton. The assumption is that the later the date code, the fresher the milk. You have date codes, too. Few people talk about them, but they can have major effects on your employability. Let me explain what …