Getting Your Foot in the Door: 3 Strategies to Break Into a New Career
Most working professionals have considered trying something different as a career. However, many are unable to successfully switch into a new career path because they lack key insight into the tactics that will get them noticed by hiring managers who can facilitate a significant career move.
Instead of going about their job search as they …
Can We Improve Our Decisions and Control Our Future?
Wouldn’t it be great if you could predict your future and make all the right choices? Better decisions would ultimately make you happy later and make your life much more trouble-free. Research in behavioral economics shows that most people make choices about how they imagine events will be. These decisions are based on our perspective …
Beat Burnout in Your Career
Even if you’re involved in a career you love, the work can get boring or tedious leading to burnout. If not dealt with, burnout can lead to apathy and low motivation. If you find yourself unmotivated and inspired to do your work, here are tips to beat burnout and get back to work.
1. Take …
Did the Dog Eat Your Career Plans?
The 2008 economic downturn had far-reaching effects on employers, the recruiting industry, and individual workers. Did it have a negative effect on your career? If so, have you recovered from it?
I’m guessing that, like 95% of respirating humans, you had no career plan before the 2008 recession. I’m guessing that, six years later, you …
6 Things You Forget About When Building A Personal Brand
Most professionals know by now that a strong personal brand is the foundation for a successful career.
Whether you use your personal brand to find jobs, promote your freelance business, or build your professional network, it’s important to create a brand that illustrates your professional experience and personality. Your personal brand can also help you …
If You Can Do This, You Win
What does everyone want more of?
Think about the power you would wield, if you knew the answer. What if you knew what everyone secretly and truly wants? What is it that they’re not saying aloud to anyone, but keeping as a dark secret?
Go one step further and imagine if you could DELIVER what …
Be Prepared for Job or Company Changes (But Not Worried)
You can do everything right, and things can still go splat in your career. As John Elway, two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback, says, “Not only do you have to be good, but you have to be lucky.”
Of course, it helps if you can anticipate when your job is at risk. This can enable you …
Successful People Have These 4 Things in Common
“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?”
— Benjamin Franklin
Surprisingly even some of the most confident people don’t really know their strengths. While you might be able to generally describe what you’re good at it’s important to know specifically what it is that you can do …
3 Types of Posts to Avoid on Social Media
As much as people may try, it is difficult to separate professional and personal lives when it comes to social media. A recent study found that 45 percent of human resources professionals use social media to vet potential employees, and another 11 percent say they have plans to start the practice this year. With 58 …
Three Words About Your Future: Responsible, Respectful and Realistic
Incoming freshmen. Heed these words.
Why?
Career, Contacts and Optics. More on these later, but keep in mind that the way you handle yourself will define your current and future success.
Of course, this likely does not come as a surprise to most people.
I had the privilege and pleasure of dropping off our son …