by Andy Molinsky and Dorie Clark | 8:00 AM April 7, 2014 Imagine you’re at a networking event in the United States and you hear your colleague make the following statement to a potential employer: “… I’d be very interested in learning more about your company to see if there might be a fit for me. …
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Mar 11 2013 by Daryl Spreiter, Sr. Manager, Onboarding, Curriculum & Coaching at Salesforce.com Over the past 20 years, I’ve learned a lot about managing my career. I’ve been fortunate to work for some of the biggest and well known brands in the industry; from small bay area startups to Thomson Reuters, Bank of America, Taleo Corporation …
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Time to Hit the Pavement By Lynn Friedman, PhD. Special to washingtonpost.com Wednesday, June 29, 2005; 12:29 PM After four years of hard work, you’ve graduated. Now, you’re looking for a job. You’re not really sure what kind of job. You didn’t know it would be so hard. You went to an excellent school and …
If you choose to become a leader in your life, whether in your internal world or external world, daring to face the struggle of the unknown is the “ticket for entry” for success. Struggle need not be a four-letter-word. Struggle can be respected, even if not welcomed, as you know it is the struggle that will teach you the requisite skills and necessary approaches to be effective in the new landscape.
You are imperfect. I am imperfect. That’s part of being human. There’s something so “old news” about it all. Yet it seems like we are all hiding with terror from this reality of not being perfect…Witnessing and accepting our imperfections isn’t weakness. It’s an act of love. It breeds freedom and acceptance within us. From there, we affect all who are in our circle of life.
So here you are in January, with 12 months ahead of you. Another opportunity for a fresh start. An opportunity to go within and ask, “what do I really want for my life in 2014?” Sure, you can do it anytime. But there is something magical about the beginning of the year to dream, plan …
Simply writing this title has decreased my confidence significantly. Yet now that I realize why I feel self-doubt, I can move forward and write this post. How incredible it is that in a split second, we can shift our mindset from negative to positive. Curiously, we rarely use this powerful ability because it’s easier to …
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Study after study is released with statistics about the job search to make you cringe. First, job seekers don’t know how to behave in interviews, then they don’t know how to write resumes; are you doing all these things wrong, too? While there are many reasons the job search should scare you, there are plenty more …
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I was watching the movie, Monsters University, with my kids recently. Through the laughs, I saw some realities for us adult folks. After years of living, each of us has come to own the one, two, or more things that scares the living bijiggers out of us. Like the movie, our minds have created these …