Barry Bonds, the recently crowned home run king (and the less recently crowned king of steroids) was incredibly rude to the press for most of his career, and he is suffering for that now because the crowds are booing and the press is writing only parenthetically about his record-breaking performance. You know the lesson here: […]
The job market is good, the Internet is buzzing, and optimism is high. Still, the best jobs require talent before you walk in the door — you need to know how to search. Here are seven tips to help you: 1. Big job sites cater to keyword-focused applicants. Only three to five percent of job […]
We are bad at predicting what will make us happy, so the best way to pick a career is to study people to see if you like what their life is like. If you do, then try their career. This is not very efficient, though. I mean, you can’t study that many people. So New […]
A friend told me that most professional bloggers don’t blog on the weekend. I didn’t realize this, because every piece of advice on blogging that I’ve read says you have to blog very regularly to blog effectively as part of your business. So last night — Friday — instead of blogging, I read blogs looking […]
The best thing about changing jobs is the vacation in between jobs. Most companies give two weeks vacation, which is about the amount of time you need to take off from work in order to keep your life running, e.g. flooded kitchen, dental appointment, weekday baseball games. On top of that, most people aspire to […]
I was in Bloomingdales today, investigating possibilities at the M-A-C makeup counter, when one of the people there asked me if I want to be in a Today Show segment. “We’re doing a makeover on TV,” said one of four tall blond women. I said, “I’ll do it if you’ll mention my blog on TV.” […]
Fortune magazine ran an article titled “The Welshman, the Walkman, and the salarymen,” which asked if the CEO, Howard Stringer, can fix Sony. At the end of the article, Stringer, who is married with two children is quoted as saying at company meeting, “I don’t see my family much. My family is you.” GIVE ME […]
Today is the official announcement of my blog. I actually started blogging three months ago, when I was doing interviews for my recent column about blogging. It became clear that anyone who is very serious about their career should have a blog, and I didn’t have one. It turns out, it is not that easy […]
I read in the Boston Globe about this guy, Jim Fannin, who is a mental coach for hundreds of people, including twenty-two major league baseball all-stars. So I decided to interview him, thinking that I’d be able to implement his program for my own goals. Most of what I know about mental coaching comes from […]
Here’s an email I got from my mom, who is an information technology manager at a Fortune 100 company: Sweetie, I was reading through a pile of resumes that human resources gave me, and there was one resume that was so good, but the guy was too high level for what I needed. Then I […]