Helping You Reach Your Job Search and Career Goals
Previously, I retweeted the following quote by Plato: “Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.” But I rather like the full quotation of his from which this paraphrase came: “The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.” I’ve talked about how the [...]
Dan Rockwell wrote a post that talks about four causes of leadership stress. Those four stressors relate quite well to job seeking and career management, as well. 1.“Living out of synch with who you are.” There’s been considerable discussion on my blog about being authentic, particularly when it comes to personal branding. If you try [...]
In reading 50 Things You Need to Give Up Today, I found many of them can impact the health of your job search and career. I’ll highlight ten of them that I think are particularly important for you to abandon: “Give up trying to be perfect.” We all know that nobody’s perfect, and yet we [...]
My ever-growing five-year-old went to her room to change into play clothes. After a short amount of time, I heard some fussing. “What’s the matter?” I called up. Her annoyed response came back, “I can’t button my pants!” “Can I help you with that?” There was no reply to my offer, but then I heard [...]
