Linda Chernoff is decked out in a black, floor-length gown and heels that kill her at the end of an evening. She has the conversational skills of a socialite and team building talents of a top executive. Her résumé could start with her prized "people skills" as an entrée to almost any career, but instead, [...]
Browsing category "Finding a career"Take the risk of specializing in order to stand out
Posted to: Finding a career | Self-management
November 29th, 2006
Game plan for peaceful coexistence of kids and career
Posted to: Finding a career | Parenting
November 17th, 2006
When Carin Rosenberg and Erik Lawrence got married, they had already done a lot of planning. They had a plan for a baby (lots of hands-on parenting) and careers (no out-of-control hours), and while each were earning advanced degrees, they had no plans for high-powered jobs. Start looking for summer internships now
Posted to: College students | Finding a career
November 6th, 2006
Good internships are treasure troves no matter how old you are. They give you the opportunity to make a new start –figure out where you fit, switch your career path, or just find someone who cares enough to help you make good decisions. How to succeed in China
October 8th, 2006
My Chinese radar really perked up last week when I read the Economist article about Alibaba. This Chinese company is the largest online business-to-business marketplace in the world, and it just purchased Yahoo! China, which makes Alibaba the12th most popular site in the world. Instead of feeling lost, look at life differently
Posted to: Finding a career | Knowing yourself
October 6th, 2006
Are you worried that you have no idea what you're doing with your life? A lot of how you feel about yourself stems from how you look at the world. For example, instead of worrying that you are not on a track, consider that the tracks are not viable. Starter career: Like a starter marriage without the messy divorce
Posted to: Finding a career | Job Hunt
September 22nd, 2006
Henry Kasdon learned to break dance on his mom’s tennis court. Now he’s a dance teacher who is astute enough about marketing to change the names of moves from the Brooklyn to the Brookline. He is a successful dancer; he’s getting ready to switch careers to trial law. “I want my kids to be taken [...] 9 new ideas that may sway on-the-fence entrepreneurs
September 17th, 2006
Are you considering entrepreneurship? It's all the rage right now because the bar at the start line has never been lower. Here are nine new ideas about entrepreneurship that will make you feel like you can do it, too. Right now: Friday smorgasbord
September 15th, 2006
Here are three tidbits I've collected that haven't fit in other places over the week. The new wave of entrepreneurship: Three things you need for success
September 9th, 2006
Matt Rivers became an entrepreneur at age 17 when his favorite surf shop went out of business and he used his dishwashing money to buy it. “At first there was only one T-shirt rack and one shorts rack and when I sold a T-shirt I bought two more." Today his Cape Cod-based business has one [...] What to do in college to be successful in your career
Posted to: College students | Entrepreneurship | Finding a career | Goal setting | Job Hunt | Knowing yourself | Money | Self-management
September 3rd, 2006
For those of you about to start another year at school, here's a list of things to keep in mind: Twenty things to do in college to set yourself up for a great job when you graduate. How to sort through career advice
August 24th, 2006
When it comes to career advice, it seems that everyone has some. The trouble is figuring out who to listen to. Most people field advice from friends, parents, teachers and significant others. John Clark, a music producer and sound engineer, even found information technology consultants tossing advice his way. Three more ways to think about career happiness
August 22nd, 2006
If you ask most people if they like their jobs, they'll say yes. Alan Kreuger — scintillating economics professor at Princeton, whom I interviewed this morning — says that this is not because people have jobs they like, but because people have cognitive dissonance and are hard-programmed to like what they have. Volunteer work helps your career while you help others
Posted to: Finding a career | Fulfillment
August 17th, 2006
We are entering the age of volunteerism. Generation X has shifted charity from the hierarchical, corporate-backed methods of the Red Cross and United Way, to a grassroots, episodic volunteerism of, say, tutoring neighborhood children. And Generation Y is donating more of their time to charitable causes than perhaps any generation in history. According Leslie Lenkowsky, [...] How to choose a career to get the lifestyle you want
August 16th, 2006
Sarah Kenny wakes up at 5am six mornings a week to get to Back Bay Yoga where she practices ashtanga – a genre of yoga known for acrobatic lunges, feet tucked behind the head, and almost fifty pushups in one session. After that, she goes to work as a senior operations specialist. For Kenny, both [...] How much money do you need to be happy? Hint: Your sex life matters more
August 3rd, 2006
How much money buys happiness? A wide body of research suggests the number is approximately forty thousand dollars a year. Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard University, says once you have enough money to meet basic needs – food, shelter, but not necessarily cable —incremental increases have little effect on your happiness. Blogger's refrain: What am I doing here, anyway?
August 3rd, 2006
Yesterday traffic to my blog doubled. On top of the usual load of about 350 visitors, I had 350 investment bankers: At 1pm Dealbreaker posted a link to my guest rant, and in the next hour alone, 100 people came. No joke. 5 cautionary ideas about going to business school
July 31st, 2006
Here's a collection of interesting ideas from people who are talking about the value of business school: Navigating the quarterlife crisis
July 31st, 2006
Scott Newberg flew into Logan airport in the middle of the night. He went straight home to his office, and in the dark room the blue light of his computer glared – a screen full of unfinished work that piled up while he was gone. He sat down at the keyboard, and that’s when he [...] Test the waters of self-employment without jumping in
July 26th, 2006
The odds are that you will probably consider self-employment at some point: Eighty-nine percent of people in the United States who make more than $50,000 a year are self-employed, according to Entrepreneur magazine. How to find happiness: Listen to scientists who study it
Posted to: Finding a career | Fulfillment | Knowing yourself | Learn to take advice | Money | Self-management
July 18th, 2006
We spend so much energy trying to decide what career will make us happy, what job to take, what kind of boss we need. But today happiness is actually a science, and we can teach ourselves to make better decisions faster based on what we know about happiness. |
You can't be a debt snob and be entrepreneurial. Almost all startups are founded on credit cards or money from parents. http://bit.ly/d3Hruw 2 days ago
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