How to Sell Your Skills Into a New Industry or Role
In any job search, it is your job to sell your skills and convince prospective employers that you are the best fit for a job opening. Being able to sell you skills in any job search situation is important. It is even more critical to master this skills if you are trying to do [...]
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How to Find Your Passion – Answer 3 Questions
How to find your passion is a great question to ask throughout your career. If you are anything like me and about 90% of the work force, then finding your passion is not an easy journey. When I was a senior in college, I asked myself this question and couldn’t come up with an answer. [...]
How to Deal with HR – Friend or Foe?
HR (Human Resources) is an interesting function of a company. To most employees, HR is just a support function – not friend or foe. How to deal with HR in most cases is simple – submit a request and get their help. We may even have very good feelings toward HR if all the interactions (getting benefits, [...]
Career Change Advice – 5 Aspects to Consider
A career change is a major step and can often involve a step-back in pay, willingness to take a lower position, investment in more schooling, and re-positioning your skills sets. A career change also requires significant effort in job search, so make sure you are changing your career for the right reasons and have [...]
The First Step to Achieving Your Dreams
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.” This is one of my favorite quote from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I believe it 100%. Doesn’t it sound wonderful? Only one problem, do we know what we really desire? Take your career for example, what [...]
What do you want to be when you “grow up”?
If you ask a kid, you will hear enthusiastic answers such as nurse, teacher, fireman, astronaut, doctor etc… What about now, do you still ask yourself this question? If not, why not? We may be “grown ups,” but most of us don’t know the answer to this question as clearly as we use to [...]
Ignore What-ifs, Just Do it
It is hard work to look for a job or to take our careers to the next level. Often we have to learn new skills and conquer new challenges in order to make progress. This is much easier said than done. We are all creatures of comfort and doing anything new can often invoke confusion [...]
Ask for Help
It doesn’t matter how old you are and how skilled you are, it’s always a good idea to ask for help or a second opinion. Tom Peters, the author of “In Search of Excellence” agrees. I attended a “Newpreneur of the Year” finale event a month ago in San Francisco sponsored by INC and Alibaba.com. [...]
Bright Shiny Object
I don’t know if you notice but kids in general loves to chase after “bright shiny objects.” They may be playing with their favorite toy but as soon as they see another “bright shiny object,” especially owned by another child, they immediately seem to want that one instead and drop the one they have in [...]
Acknowledge your effort for showing up
“Acknowledge your effort for showing up.” This is what my Bikram Yoga teacher says to us at the end of every class. I have taken Bikram Yoga for the last 3 years, yet almost every time he says it, it still means something wonderful to me. I find myself happy that I did make the [...]
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