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You Need to Have Desire to Achieve Your Goals
In order for you to achieve the things you are capable of, you need to constantly be creating goals for yourself and create a massive desire deep down to achieve these goals. There is nothing more important than having a desire deep down to achieve goals....
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Goal Setting 12 CommentsOne of the Most Significant Lessons I Have Ever Learned about Work
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor. -Normal Vincent...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 3 CommentsI am about to provide you some of the strangest job search and career advice you will ever receive from someone who’s in the recruiting industry. One thing you should know about me is that I’m a straight shooter. If I see a pattern repeat itself...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts 13 CommentsCheap Beer, Overpriced Chocolate, and Being Visible and Approachable
For some reason, I have started receiving a number of invitations from local stores to go and spend an evening looking at stuff—”new fall collections,” for example. It could be women’s shoes, beds and bedding, or other wares; whatever...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 1 CommentPlay Each Day Like It Is Your Most Important
Most people never do their work the best way they can. To be successful you need to make every single day at work, every single interview, and every single job you apply for the most important one ever. I want to propose to you a relationship with your...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 3 CommentsChoose Your Frames of Reference Wisely
I spent the summer following my first year of law school working at the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) in Washington, DC. The entire summer and the events leading up to it resulted in one of the strangest experiences I have ever had. After...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 22 CommentsYou Need to Bring a Singular Focus to Everything You Do
What makes a person really good at something? The answer to this question is identical to the reason for exceedingly high success in any profession. There are people who are really good at finding jobs. People who are good at finding jobs bring an incredible...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Goal Setting 6 CommentsYour Life Is Controlled by Your Decisions and Your Commitment to Them
Over 20 years ago, I was at a relative’s house in the country and he made a crazy statement (which he appeared to believe) that all Japanese were Jewish, and that was why they were in the process of controlling all the car manufacturing in the world,...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 27 CommentsDon’t Be Persuaded by Others Who Tell You How to Do Your Job Search
Several years ago, I was sitting at my desk when my secretary ran into my office. She told me the career services dean of a major American law school was on the telephone, demanding to speak with me, and that she was extremely angry. I took the call...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 2 CommentsIn Defense of Long-Term Employment with a Single Employer
If you go into any business that’s been around more than twenty or thirty years, you will inevitably find a handful of people who’ve been there from the very beginning of their careers. These well-adjusted souls will typically report to work...
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