Guest Post: Essential Tech Tools for Telecommuting
Thanks to technology, the choice is no longer between a germ-ridden communal office and the isolation of a home office.
Resolutions and the Modern Careerist
I’ve been reading a lot of advice on how to make real change in your life, and the best advice seems to trend toward not making resolutions – at least not in the traditional way. When you try to make a change based on what you “should” do (lose weight, get back to the gym, or get organized), you are relying on a very weak system to help you along.
Deduct Your Job Search Expenses
It’s December, and next month, we’ll all be organizing receipts and getting ready to file income tax forms. Here’s what you need to know if you had expenses related to your job search in 2013.
Guest Post: Turn Your Unemployment Into an Asset (Seriously)
Smart employers with an eye for nuance and an intelligent long-term business strategy are usually not turned off by unemployment. In fact, some of them actually see this as an asset.
Holiday Parties and Your Job Search
December is one of the busiest social seasons of the year. Arguably, we attend more parties this month than any other. That can be a blessing and a curse if you’re in a job hunt or thinking about changing jobs next year. Here are some tips to help you survive – and maybe thrive.
The Future Mindset
Drones are just one technology that may create thousands, even millions of jobs, within the next 20 years. How can you prepare your children – or yourself – for jobs that you can’t even imagine today?
You can’t know the exact skills, training, or experience you’ll need, but you can develop a mindset that makes you more ready for what the future holds. Here’s how.
10 Futuristic Jobs that Barely Exist
Kaplan Business School in Australia sent me this cool infographic to complement my post on Amazon’s drone technology. Read the original post here.
What Amazon’s Drone Talk Teaches Us about the Future of Work
If drones are feasible and they do become a local delivery mechanism by 2020 or 2025 (most reasonable analysts’ best guess), your 10-year-old niece or nephew could be building, maintaining, programming or operating them for a living. For that matter, so could you.
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
“I used to give out this advice: Go ahead and leave because you’re going to have more than 10 jobs in your life, and you might as well move up as fast as you can. I don’t give that advice any more. In fact, I now try to talk people out of taking new jobs.”
Your Greatest Strength is Also Your Weakness
Two of the most dreaded questions in interviewing are dreaded for good reason. “What is your greatest strength?” and “What is your greatest weakness?” are mirror image questions that drive jobseekers crazy. (For the record, they drive most recruiters crazy, too; they would love to hear the real answers, but never get more than tired clichés in return.) We are perpetually perplexed by these mirror image questions because they are not mirror images at all – they’re the same question.
