The other day one of my clients, we will call him John, asked me question I hear often: "What happens to those who follow their dreams and LOSE?" John said he keeps hearing stories of those who risked it all and won and he wonders if he is not risking enough. What...
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The Secret to Getting More
Earl Nightingale, the famous television commentator and founder of Nightingale-Conant Company, tells a story about a man looking for a job and saying "I want someone to give me a job." His analogy for this mindset is someone who sits in front of the fireplace and asks...
Getting a Job is About Who You Know!
Someone recently told me "I know I will get a job with that company because a friend of the owner referred me. I think the owner owes a favor to my friend." This is a common perception about getting work - it is all about who you know. I asked this person "Does the...
Making Your Degree Pay!
Making Your Degree Pay from UAB IEM on Vimeo. This video was done at the request of the team at JOBWICH as they try to help recent IT grads in the New York area.
Resumes are Worthless Now Shipping
My new book Resumes are Worthless: How to Find the Work You Love and Succeed is now on the market. Check it out!
Resumes are Worthless
Yes - resumes are worthless!! When I speak, I often say "resumes are worthless" to the shock of many in an audience -- especially when I am following well-meaning career counselors who just spent 15-20 minutes explaining why your resume needs to be perfect. Why do I...
Career Goals – The Window Seat
What is your career goal? Lately, I have been reflecting and reading about this question - and how people answer it. Several things I have read and listened to have been written by people who have ideas and have shared them with others via various forms of...
Social Media in Business-FREE Seminar November 9
With Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so many other websites that offer great potential for reaching clients, it can be hard to choose the best ones for your business. So come to our seminar and learn just what matters–and what doesn’t—in the world of social media for your business
Internet Marketing Course
Coming in November Patrick Cash and I will be offering a full day of Internet marketing training! Stay tuned!!!
Delegating for Success
Do you delegate well? Or do you instead decide, "I will just do it myself." Many of you probably think, "I have no one to delegate to!" Over the past few years, I have delegated MASSIVE amounts of work - even work that is typically MINE to do. I have found...
Startup With a Large Vision
Ever thought of funding a larger vision with a startup business? At lunch with one of my clients the other day, he shared a vision to do just that. His entrepreneurial venture is not about creating money - but about helping others. He wants to raise enough...
Blind Men Refuse Sight: Claim Vision is Overrated
When a resume and application fails yet another hopeful job seeker when looking for a position, I come in and offer real, tangible, solutions to free them from the darkness. Yet still, people choose blind fumbling as their approach to business rather than grasp on to solid career vision.
No Excuses Accepted
If you’re looking for a job and the only thing holding you back is that the economy is bad and therefore luck isn”t on your side, you are just making excuses. Get up off your keister and make your own luck. Jobs are there. Go get ’em.
Live Your Dream
One of the best entrepreneurs I know shares his advice on job searching and how to MAKE the career YOU want.
Myths and Truths on Starting Your Own Business
Do you want to start your own business? Have you been thinking about it for years? In the next few posts I will try to provide a series of practical hints to move from thinking to action - but smart action. First - let's look at some common myths! Myth: It takes...
Being an Entrepreneur within a Large Company
We are not all the type of people who go around starting companies. But just because you don’t want to start the company, doesn’t mean you aren’t an entrepreneur. In this article we take a look at being an entrepreneur even if you work for someone else.
Is It Time To Quit Your Day Job?
In it the author writes a lot of good thoughts, but based on the feedback the article gets, the article leaves many people asking the question “what if I don’t have a plan B?” It is a fun thing to head off into the sunset and think you might actually reach your dream, but reality says you will need income, so how do you plan for something to fall back on when you’re taking giant risks with your career?
Does an MBA Pay?
I received this email from someone just the other day.... I recently graduated from .... MBA program and have not really found it to be providing any of the opportunities that I had hoped for, even given the current economic and employment conditions. I have a desire...