It’s that time of year. No, not the time to take off because you are so worried about the stock market. There could be New Year planning, creation of new visions and missions and bonus distributions to name a few. Just when you want to coast through Q1 is the time when you need to… Continue reading
Archive for the 'Career Advice' Category
What to Give a 2008 College Grad
Worried about what to give a college graduate who has everything but a job? Have you considered pummeling them with career guides? Just a hunch, but I think they would prefer your money. Still, I generally take the passive road and give them a book store gift certificate and let them choose a nifty career… Continue reading
Are You Having a Brazen Career?
Penelope Trunk, the popular author & career advice columnist, has caught the Web 2.0 entrepreneurial bug. Fifty young bloggers have joined with her to create a a cool blog-based community and career advice site called Brazen Careerist. The site is “an online career center aimed at Generation Y – young professionals who want to design and define their careers… Continue reading
Best Blog Posts of 2007: Finding a Job
Here are five blog posts related to finding a job that I found especially worthwhile in 2007. Of course, I will throw in one of ours, and we hope these four other favorites knock your socks off. Why Advanced Search Doesn’t Advance Your Search – My Global Career My colleague Jennifer Hamm, a former expat journalist, penned… Continue reading
A Tale of Two Self-Actualization Gurus
In the burgeoning marketplace of self-actualization gurus no one is hotter than the ubiquitous Tim Ferris. For someone who purports to only work four hours a week, he apparently classifies the other 36 hours of self-promotion as rest and relaxation. I was skeptical, but on the advice of a respected comrade I tuned into a… Continue reading
Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Until a few days ago I had never heard of Professor Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University. I hadn’t heard about his trailblazing work in computer science studies – particularly in virtual reality and creating a playful way to teach computer programming to children. But then someone sent me a link to his final lecture,… Continue reading
