6 Ways Hobbies Can Advance Your Career
Regardless of whether your day job is your dream career, you need something outside of work that you enjoy spending time on. Hobbies can provide you with new challenges, new friends and acquaintances, and even provide an outlet for stress reduction.
Whether you knit, play basketball, write short stories, or perform on aerial silks, your …
Turn a Scanty Resume into a Winning Marketing Brochure
Most recent graduates have very limited “real world” work experience and struggle to create a resume which gets the attention of hiring managers. Those grads who were lucky enough to have had internships and who got good grades still have many gaps in their resumes. The first step to getting hired is realizing that your …
New Book for Your Personal Branding Enhancement
To write The CEO Difference: How to Climb, Crawl, and Leap Your Way to the Next Level of Your Career (McGraw-Hill, Feb. 2014) I asked over one-hundred CEOs and C-suite executives these three questions:
What causes someone to positively stand out in your eyes? What do you look for in people you promote? And, what…Letter to an Unemployed Friend
Dear friend,
As I write these lines, I don’t know what your specific life circumstances or background are. I don’t know either how it is that you came to be unemployed, though in all likelihood it means that you are looking for your first job, that you were made redundant or that you voluntarily left …
Branding Has To Be Part Of A Career Success Plan
In a less secure professional world than anyone has ever known, you need a tougher, more pragmatic approach to managing your professional life. It’s time to stop thinking of yourself simply as a job title and an employee, because this point-of-view has you psychologically shackled to entities that can, and will, dispose of your services …
Personal Branding Interview: Pamela Mitchell
Today, I spoke to Pamela Mitchell, the founder and CEO of The Reinvention Institute, Inc. (TRI), author of The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy, and columnist for Inc.com.
In this interview, Pamela talks about the process of career reinvention. She also provides examples of those that have made the …