Self-Employed is the New Working
Workers are creating their own jobs through consulting or contract work while waiting for a full time job to appear, and in some case, as a permanent solution.
Category: Careers
How to Choose Your First Job
Here’s my best advice on what’s next: you don’t need a job. You need three jobs.
How to Hack Your First Job
It’s graduate time, and thousands of young graduates will be entering the market looking for their first “real” job. Many of them (and their parents) find this time to be filled with anxiety. Will I be competitive? Will I get a job that inspires me (and pays the bills)? Will I make enough to move out on my own and start the life I’ve always dreamed of?
My best advice: relax.
The Best Jobs for Every Myers-Briggs Type
Paul Tieger’s book Do What You Are is my favorite career coaching book. This infographic is courtesy of Business Insider.
Fit at Forty Plus
Your energy level is part of your personal brand, along with your appearance and confidence. If you could find a fix that improved your posture, amped up your energy level, made your confidence skyrocket and took years off your appearance, would you buy it? Maybe? What if it were free? Heck yes – sign me up.
Be a Weed
Hwang uses the metaphor of the rainforest to talk about innovation and creativity, and he starts by comparing it to the plantation, where crops are raised like a business.
Liar, Liar
Wouldn’t it be great to be a supervisor who could ferret out the truth in all those “he said, she said” situations? Wouldn’t you love to know for sure whether your teenager is telling the truth about where she was last night?
Leaving a Job on Good Terms
Leaving a position, even one you love, is a difficult and sometimes emotional event.
Find an extra 60 Minutes a Day: Never Lose Anything Again
The key to not losing things? Habit, habit, habit. Most items get lost because we don’t have a system for storing them every day.
Guest Post: 5 Simple Tips to Accelerate Your Career Progression
We live in a world that is literally “first come, first served.” Gone are the days when people patiently waited to build their business – or their career – from the ground up. Today, we want quick results; we don’t want to sit around and wait patiently. It is no secret that in this fast-paced world, “time is money.”
