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Pay Attention: 7-Day Challenge to Find Out Who is REALLY in Control of Your Career Decisions
The simple answer is that you are in control of your career decisions, but it does not always feel like that. You may be one of the people who feel stuck where you are, with little time to tend to a job search, and feel like you are victim to someone else’s whims, waiting […]
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5 Problems with Teaching People How to Fish
As the new administration decides where to make cuts and where to allocate funding, heated debates continue on both sides of the political spectrum. Don’t worry, as usual, this post is not political. (I personally find that many of the issues that need a resolution would be better served if politics were left out […]
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Plans A Through D for Getting Noticed by Employers
Flat out– I cannot guarantee even a cover letter I write is going to be read by human eyes. Even though I identify and research my client’s most logical next boss, find out what is most important to them, target their hot buttons, and write a subject line that cannot be ignored for an email […]
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The Secret to Influencing Corporate Change Revealed
Many of my clients over the past ten years have either developed thought leaders for their organization, leveraged thought leaders, or have been thought leaders themselves. It seems like common sense that if change in an organization is going to be adopted, it needs to happen from the top down, but my clients have […]
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Have You Been Broken by Losing a “Once-in-a-Lifetime” Opportunity?
This may sound obvious, but the way you perceive your world will greatly impact how you respond to challenges as well as the outcomes. Not only have I seen many people become broken when an opportunity that I thought could be once-in-a-lifetime fell through, but it happened to me as well. I was a few […]
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Refuse the Box: The Perils of Vanilla Branding
Are you dynamic? What does that even mean? Very few people who have had that word in their resume have been able to tell me what it really means. Most of them just thought it sounded good. It is true for most people, however. I could definitely say it has been true of all […]
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Look at a Person’s Light, Not their Lampshade
I read this quote from Gerald G. Jampolsky and immediately had to add it to my library of inspiration. I was pondering it for so long. The most obvious reason that it appealed to me is because of my own company’s motto, “Unveil Your Brilliance.” This might sound too crazy to be true, but […]
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10X Your Everything in 2017
Let’s pretend that the current global economic conditions have no effect on us whatsoever. Let’s pretend, while we’re at it, that regardless of who is president, what tax laws may benefit us or harm us, or if anyone else in the world accepts us for who we are, we can create an ideal future […]
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4 Questions That Build a Killer LinkedIn Summary
I am glad that LinkedIn exists for multiple reasons, but mostly because there is a venue for professionals to communicate beyond concise and awkward résumé language. Through LinkedIn, they can “speak” in their own natural voice with their own innate verbiage. As a former hiring professional, it was helpful to understand who the candidate […]