Pick who you work with very carefully. Because you are likely to become like them. So the first thing is to know what’s important to you about you — what you want to become. What you like about yourself. And then, surround yourself with people who match your aspirations for yourself. Here are some ideas: […]
I get questions all the time about how I manage having kids and a startup at the same time. After trying to answer the question a few times, I realized that there’s the pretty-much-BS answer about how it’s all about being clear on your values. Or there's the complicated, too-long-for-interviews answer. To really get tips […]
Reference checks used to matter a lot. Fifty years ago. When people only changed jobs twice in their life, and they didn't know anyone outside of their company, it made sense that the second company called the first company. Then, when it became clear that the first company could say one, tiny bad thing and […]
What you know the most about is what you can offer the most insight about. And you probably know that telling stories is always more compelling than talking in generalities. But if you tell stories, you need people to be in the stories. So if you want to write insightfully, then using stories about people […]
I met D at a party. I was there with Ryan Paugh and a few bloggers from the Brazen Careerist network, and because it was SXSW and it was all parties all the time, I was pretty partied out. But the party was for Kirtsy, and I love the women who run Kirtsy, so I […]
It's time to admit that Take Your Child to Work Day is an outdated relic of 1970s feminism, and we can put the whole thing to rest. Do you remember that the day started as Take Our Daughters to Work? It was the 70s, and women wanted their daughters to know that they could do […]
Almost everyone should forget about making money directly from blogging. It’s so unlikely that it’s a total waste of your time trying. I am actually shocked at how ubiquitous the idea is that blogging is a get-rich-quick scheme. Or even a get-rich-slowly scheme. It’s not. Blogging is a great career tool for creating opportunities for […]
I do a lot of public speaking, mostly on the topic of how to bridge generational differences in the workplace. And I field tons of questions from corporate audiences. Here are four of the most common questions: How can you tell if a member of Gen Y hates his or her boss? You can't. This […]
The guy I'm sort of dating asks me, “Do you know Glenda Bautista?” I say, “No.” He says, “We're trying to hire her.” So I check out her blog and dis her and he says, “She was dating Matt Mullenweg.” I say, “Really.” He says, “Yeah. I was talking with my business partner and we […]
It used to be that the best post-college jobs were the ones that gave you a sense of security (law, medicine) or financial windfall (banking). But the finance industry and grad-school route are both dead ends at this point. The New York Times reports that we're experiencing a sea change in the career department because […]