Rethinking Abundance Mentality: Job Search Version
I love the idea of the abundance mentality. You can find all kinds of descriptions online that talk about the abundance mentality, but the gist of it is that there …
Already Employed
Favorite Friday: Email Spam, Digital Nuisance
I’ll never forget this post (okay, I forgot about it, kind of, but was reminded when I wrote Wednesday’s post). Resolve To Not Be A Digital Nuisance In 2008 I …
Job Search Health: Delicious Green Smoothies with 2 Cups of Water
Job search health is critical. And, my wife will fall out of her chair when she reads this (because she thinks I’m all about donuts and cake). I know I …
Communication Fail!!!
I get LOTS of emails a day. Thousands each week. I have gotten pretty good at looking at the subject line and then deleting, if it smells like spam. The …
Favorite Friday: Letter To University Professors: Stop Lying To Us!
Favorite Friday Link: Letter to University Professors: Stop Failing Us This was a FUN post to write… and I had kind of forgotten about it until last night when I …
JibberJobber: Web-based Relationship Manager vs. Desktop Relationship Manager
Warning: long post that can be used as a reference post for later. I got the following email from a career coach this morning: I’ve been trying to convince coaching …
How You Respond MATTERS!!!
I am a sucker for Tim Ferriss’s Muse writeups. I’ll share more of them when I get a chance, but today I wanted to take one sentence from an interview …
“Friday Might Be My Last Day Here”
Recently I was talking to a working professional. Someone who is happy in her job, contributing to the organization, indeed, living the dream. This person is in a significant role, …
How to REALLY Help a Job Seeker
One question I hated while in a job search was: How’s your job search going? The answer I said was “it’s going okay,” but what I thought was “it sucks …
Is The Economy Getting Better? Notes From an MBA Econ Class
In a comment on my job search depression post, “Blissful” shared some very interesting thoughts from her MBA level econ class regarding the economy: >> What I learned in my …