Most of my girlfriends who make more than $100K a year were cheerleaders in school. We are from all over the United States. We are from all different types of companies. Only a few of us can do the splits. Yet we all bounced in short skirts and cheered for boys. I chalked this up […]
A few months ago, I was interviewing this guy, Ben Casnocha. The first thing you need to know about Ben is that he started a company when he was fourteen. And it’s still around today, four years later. Ben doesn’t run it, but my point is that it’s a real company. But no, wait, that’s […]
Hannah Schufreider may seem an unlikely person to be teaching you how to manage your career. She is a 12-year-old autistic girl living in Haverhill. Her days are spent being a little bored in school, reading Manga comics, watching Hannah Montana on TV, and going to fencing class on the weekends. Sounds like a typical […]
I have a new column debuting on Yahoo! Finance today. I’m very excited. Yahoo contacted me in November, right after I moved to Madison. And right after I signed the contract, they were all about the head shot. This makes sense. Yahoo wants everyone to look good. Totally reasonable. If nothing else, there’s the fact […]
I write a lot about how effective job hunters hunt all the time, and how it’s important to integrate this project into our life with their other personal and professional projects. And I write a lot about how networking is the new job hunt. So I got excited that there’s a new category of job […]
A lot of people ask me how to become a syndicated print columnist (because I am one), and while I was answering someone’s questions the other day, it occurred to me that this is information that all bloggers can use as a way to make money from their blog. Like publishing AdSense links or using […]
One of my favorite topics is the science of happiness, which academia calls positive psychology. I love this topic because most of us think of our careers in terms of happiness. That is, we look for work that makes us happy. Positive psychology turns this hunt into a science. And then tells us to look […]
The first time I had my own company, we ignored Martin Luther King Day. And it felt really bad, like I was not living my own values. Now I am careful each year to do something to mark the holiday. So today I’m posting a piece I wrote a few years ago, before I had […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I was overhauling my time management strategy. And believe it or not, things are getting a little better. I have integrated my email and my to do list, which saves a lot of time moving information around my computer. And I have consolidated my work calendar and […]
A reader asked this question: Would you mind writing a post about dealing with multiple job offers and declining some of them — politely and gracefully? This is actually a question about networking. When someone offers you a job, they have identified you as someone they want to be connected with. That you have multiple […]