How To Choose Your Next Career, Project, or Strategy
Should we go for strategy A or B? Career This or That? Project X or Y? When we are not in our SweetSpot, the best …
Career
Tips and Insights about your career.
Getting A Job (Sometimes) Without Experience
After yesterday’s post about organizations not needing to hire based on experience, a reader rightly asked about being on the other side of this transaction, …
Go Ahead, Look Deeper
Why are you doing what you are doing in your work and life? If we scratch just beneath the surface of our answers to this …
No Need for Enduring Legacies
When we consider our careers and what makes them meaningful, let’s beware the wish for creating something that will last. Instead of enduring, let’s go for …
Career Checkup
The criteria: Our work is successful and meaningful to the extent that it uses our talents, engages our passions, meets our needs/wants/desires, and helps others (individuals and/or …
We Need Not Be (the) Experts
A high-tech sales and marketing executive joining a law firm. An English major starting a mobile apps company. A teacher running an international shipping company. …
The Simpler Way To Land A Job
Landing a job can be a hard and unrewarding endeavor. We can waste time and drain our psyches by trolling job boards, sending out résumés, …
Four Ways To Know You’re In the Right (or Wrong) Career
Work that doesn’t use your talents is work you should have others do. Work that doesn’t engage your passions is a dead end. Work that doesn’t meet your needs, …
Wealth and Status
Wealth and status. Credentials and fame. Prestige and affluence. Contrary to some thought, none of these are bad. What is damaging to us and our …
To Have a Truly Successful Career
There is a bit of a bun fight going on in the career coaching world about what it takes to have a successful career. On …