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“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry So what exactly is an entry level job? According to Wikipedia (and this is an excerpt) – “An entry-level job is a job that is normally designed or designated for recent graduates [...] [...]
“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.” – George Bernard Shaw So much to do and so little time. Job Search Boards, recruiters, company career sites, social sites and so on. So where do you start? How much time should you spend on all of the [...] [...]
“You always pass failure on the way to success.” – Mickey Rooney I was on my way to work today (commuting via public transportation) and when I looked up (from my mobile device), I noticed that almost everyone on the train was looking at a mobile phone, Blackberry, tablet or eReader. If you commute via public [...] [...]
“Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.” – Unknown Half way through the summer and no job prospects? Parents on your back (of course they are thinking about your $200,000+ college education)? You are not alone. Some of my friends’ kids are now home from college having graduated a few short [...] [...]
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle You know what they say “you don’t know what you don’t know”. With the vast wealth of information on the Internet, it is virtually impossible to cover any one topic from beginning to end with all of the links [...] [...]
“Work hard, have fun and make history.” – Jeff Bezos Author: Sherrie A. Madia, Ph.D. Online job search should never completely replace traditional ways of searching for a job. As any good marketer knows-and that’s what you are, a marketer of yourself-it’s never smart to make assumptions about what works and what doesn’t. Rather, the ideal approach is [...] [...]
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffet Flying back from a business trip and I got to thinking about the “30,000 foot view”. You know, the “big picture” or “seeing the forest for the trees” and I’m [...] [...]
“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.” – Jack Welch I just read that the last company to manufacture typewriters just announced they are ending production. “Typewriters? What’s that you may ask (ancient history). In one way, it is a little sad for those of us [...] [...]
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain Summer Interns in March? Yes, the summer intern interview [...] [...]
“Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes A few years ago I was having some work done in my house by a carpenter. While he was in my house, my wife sent me [...] [...]
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