Unhappily Employed? Underemployed? Join the club!
X percent of the country is unemployed. Y percent of the country is unhappily employed. Z percent of the country is underemployed. And there there are those who are left, …
Already Employed
How Can I Help You? A Very Hard Question!
Friday I wrote a post about my biggest mistake when going to network meetings. Inevitebly, once I fixed my mistake, I got this question: “How can I help you?” My …
Job Seeker Networking Mistakes
Yesterday I shared a post I wrote about my first networking meetings as a job seeker. It made me think about my biggest mistake trying to “network.” For a long …
Question: How do you self-publish?
When I was speaking on my last trip, in the Bay Area, I talked about writing a book. Here are two questions I got from one of the attendees, via …
Are People Talking About You?
Last week I was talking with a friend who is going through a divorce. I asked her “do you feel like you constantly have to defend yourself?” She said “every …
Take Charge of your Finances!
Before I lost my job I was, like many in the U.S., living paycheck to paycheck. Thank goodness for an overdraft, which we used quite a bit. I made just …
Are You Cheating On Your Job Search?
Sunday I was talking with a fellow business owner, and we were chatting about working out. I said that it’s easy, as an entrepreneur, feel like you are cheating on your …
Want to GET (opportunities, blessings, goodness)? Here’s how…
Thom Singer, a blogger I like to refer to and quote, wrote an inspired post Sunday titled Here is a way that has never failed to bring opportunities. Read it. …
Book Recommendation: Succeed- How we can reach our goals
Last week I wrote about Alison Doyle’s job search books, and I got an email from JibberJobber user Cleo Parker (on Twitter) with what I decided would be today’s post 🙂 …
How Writing a Book Can Boost Your Career and Your Income
My work continues to get awesome media mentions. This one is from Meridith Levinson at CIO.com. She titles it How Writing a Book Can Boost Your IT Career and Your …