Career Advice
This should be implied but I’ve realized it’s not. You must: Show up for work on time, every time, and even before time. When in doubt, ask what the expected times are. And be early and stay later. It adds up. People see it. It shows commitment. And by the way, just because other people…
I might be biased in this regard, but most career professionals should have some set of basic web design and coding skills. Although I think it’s equally useful in large corporations, if you’re in a smaller organization, where there isn’t an “IT department,” “webmaster” or someone whose primary role is to maintain the web presence, you’re…
For companies, hiring is like going on two dates and asking that person to marry you. Or, for job candidates, saying yes to a marriage proposal after only a couple of dates. Somehow we’re supposed to know from a couple pieces of paper and 30 minutes or a couple of hours that you’re the one…
Keyboarding is an underutilized, under appreciated skill for career professionals. With the speed of technological innovation, computers are being integrated into virtually every job out there, even in manual labor type jobs. For employers it saves time as it democratizes data in the organization. For employees, it can save us time and energy that can…
For the last couple of hours, I’ve been fascinated with exploring “Companies” on LinkedIn when I stumbled onto a link on most company profile on the right sidebar that says “Check out insightful statistics about [company] employees >>” To find this, simply add “insights” to the end of any company profile URL. Such as: http://www.linkedin.com/company/apple/insights…
I created a bucket list for the first time in August 2010. At the time, I had achieved some of my biggest dreams and was grasping for “what’s next” and “what’s left” in my life. I was struggling actually. I’ve always had big over aching goals to pursue. And with most of the major ones…
Today I’m introducing the Quick Career Nuggets series at Purposeful Paychecks. The goal is to give career tips and practical steps for action in 5 minutes or less. In each Career Nugget blog post, I’ll seek to …. Give some key nugget Why you should heed it How to learn more and take action You…
Once you have the 6 enduring principles to career happiness down, you need to make progress toward finding the work that matches what you want in life and ultimately gives you that purposeful paycheck. Heretics of the purposeful paycheck use a blueprint or roadmap to continually find and maintain career happiness through our lives. Here…
Over at my new Purposeful Paychecks blog, I’ve scheduled 8 hours of webinar training for June, including my Blogging Your Way to Career Success webinar. These webinar will be offered free to attend, but the recordings will not be made available publicly so make sure you plan to attend the live training! Here are the…
This is really the Manifesto of the Purposeful Paycheck Tribe. You are career heretics. I brand you that because you, like me, have devoted your life to principles that are on the fringe of what the majority seeks in their careers. You live differently. You approach work and life with a unique perspective. You see…