The Best Companies to Work for – Vol 14

“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.” – Serge Gainsbourg Imagine, you are at your company’s annual sales conference. Hundreds of attendees from all over the world are attending this event in Las Vegas. It is several days and nights of drinking, gambling and boring conferences (did I mention drinking?).  Anyway, tonight [...] [...]

Restarting Your Job Search When All Else Fails – Vol 1

“If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.” – Andrea Boydston I remember really early in my career (probably before most of you were out of diapers) when we were living in the modern world of IBM XTs (with an Intel 8088 processor at 4.77 MHz, a hard drive of 10MB and 640kb of [...] [...]

College Grad, Job Bound, Late Summer Job Search Vol 2

“Doing the job right the first time gets the job done.  Doing the job wrong 14 times gives you job security.” Author Unknown Are those leaves I see falling off of the trees already? What? Summer is almost gone and you don’t have a job yet? Unless you want to start a neighborhood leaf blowing company [...] [...]

The Best Companies to Work for – Vol 13

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools” – Douglas Adams Competition. We were taught from a very young age that that’s what it’s all about (weren’t we?). From our first sporting event (did you win or lose?) to your grades in school, [...] [...]

While I’m on Vacation

“No vacation goes unpunished.” – Karl Hakkarainen I remember my first job as an analyst on Wall Street. I shared an office with another analyst on one of the Trading floors and there was always lots of yelling, selling and cursing during trading hours. Anyway, I remember when my boss was going on vacation. He made [...] [...]