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@Work: A Career Blog
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A blog about finding a great job and how to succeed once you're there.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 669 )
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Think Like a Salesman to Sell Yourself
In a previous post, I spoke to Rob Mendez, who educates audiences on Guerrilla Marketing strategies for jobseekers and helps them understand the phases of a... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Guerrilla Marketing for Jobseekers
Guerrilla Marketing, like Guerrilla Warfare, evens the playing field between large entities with resources and the little guys. Read more
Posted on 16 November 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Better Than a Pain Letter
I recently wrote a post about how the cover letter is being replaced by the Pain Letter. A pain letter takes what you know through research about an industry o... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Better Than a Cover Letter
Cover letters seem to be going the way of, well, letters in general. Most are not well-written and most, quite frankly, go unread.But there are two new... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Quantifying Your Experience
Everyone knows that your resume must include information about your skills and experience. But almost no one understands how to make that information stand out... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Poetical Science: The Woman Who Envisioned the Modern Computer
The 19th century was a time of great change, and two cultural movements created dynamic tension throughout this fascinating period of world history. Read more
Posted on 19 October 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
How to Sabotage Meetings Like a Pro
A fascinating article appeared in Fortune Magazine online this week. It describes a document issued during WWII and declassified in the 1970s. It had been... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Be Late for Something Day is September 5 – Oops.
The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who are on time, and those who are always late. Sociologists have actually studied lateness as it... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Race Against the Machine
Technology is changing at such a rapid pace that some economists have predicted the “end of employment.” Computers are able to do many of the functions that... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Are You a Team Player?
One of the most common phrases you’ll hear in a job interview is the ubiquitous “I’m a team player.” Like any personal quality, “team player” falls on a... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Your Own Worst Enemy
We have met the enemy and he is us. Pogo Cartoonist Walt Kelly.As a career coach, I’ve met people who couldn’t understand why they hadn’t achieved the success... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Hit Send Too Soon
I’ve been waiting to see what happens when Generation Selfie and the Working Establishment collide. This story was inevitable.A 23-year-old Chicago resident... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Punished by Rewards
Alfie Kohn is the author of Punished by Rewards; the Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes. The title says it all; everything... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Resistance is Futile Part Two
I wrote recently about Daniel Pink’s Book To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others. If you haven’t read that post, go back and take a look.... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Graceful Rejections
One complaint I consistently hear from jobseekers is how brutal the application process can be. Candidates often put in hours of research and editing time to... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Resistance is Futile – But So is Persuasion
Daniel Pink, author is a bit of a subversive genius. He’s written some of my favorite business books, including Free Agent Nation and To Sell is Human. Read more
Posted on 10 August 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Career Or Love?
#563962291 / gettyimages.comBecause I can’t resist…Slate published this delicious quiz from an early 1950s magazine called Girlfriend. The quiz was titled... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Are You Stuck? Maybe a Holistic Coach is the Right Solution for You
Your job is what you do, not who you are, right? The two may be aligned more closely than you think – and you can add in how you feel as well. That’s according... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Selfish Versus Otherish
(This is one of a series of posts on Give and Take by Adam Grant.)In a previous post, I described what Adam Grant’s research found: that the human race is made... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER -
Choosing Challenging Tools
In the 1950s, we imagined a future where robots and machines did all the work for us; we would only need to push a few buttons every few minutes, and watch as... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2015 BUSINESS, CAREER