Quantifying Your Experience
I’m pretty sure that someone who hires and manages mortgage processors is aware of the usual duties assigned to those workers. She wrote the job description.
Tag: skills
Choosing Challenging Tools
In the 1950s, we imagined a future where robots and machines did all the work for us; we would only need to push a few buttons every few minutes, and watch as tasks accomplished themselves. We’re not quite there yet, but we certainly can accomplish a tremendous amount of work by pushing a few buttons.
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.
Find an Extra Sixty Minutes a Day: Schedule Meetings Quickly and Efficiently
Scheduling meetings with a number of participants can be maddening. Someone proposes several dates and participants chime in as the email correspondence multiplies with “reply all.” Emails cross, people change their availability, and it turns into a logistical nightmare for the hapless organizer.
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.”
Give and Take
Grant writes “Being a Giver who enjoys helping others can be inefficient in the short run but surprisingly productive in the long run.”
Career Lessons from Alton Brown
Brown puts on a smart, funny and entertaining show, part science experiment, part comedy show and part rock concert. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. His success also got me thinking about how to create a career you love. Here are three lessons I took away.
Find an extra 60 Minutes a Day, Part One: Read Faster
If you’re like most of us, every work day feels like a race – one that you can never win. If you’re never able to clear your to-do list by the end of the day (and feeling stressed about it) this is the first in a series on how to gain a few minutes every day.
Wu Wei
I fell in love with the Chinese term “Wu Wei” (pronounced “ooh way”) the moment I heard its meaning: “effortless action.” It’s exactly what’s needed for success in networking and interviewing, indeed, for your whole career.
