I’m just going to come out and say it…
Your years of experience isn’t as impressive as you think it is.
At least not the way you probably current pitch it.
Let me show you what I mean.
[Read more…]Is your resume making the reader work too much?
One of my favorite copywriters (David Garfinkel) always says he who does the work gets paid.
He’s usually talking about business sales pages but the same holds true because…
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
I need to ask you a serious question.
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
That question might look familiar to you if you’ve ever seen the cartoon show Animaniacs (I think they just removed it from Netflix :/ ). They had a mini show within the show called Pinky and the Brain.
The show was named after two mice — one a genius (Brain, just to be clear) and the other insane based on how the theme song describes them. And every episode Brain would turn to Pink with thoughts of world domination and ask Pinky…
“Are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
And without fail, Pinky would miss the mark by a country mile with a reply like “I think so Brain, but if you replace the ‘P’ with an ‘O’, my name would be Oinky, wouldn’t it?”
And Brain would have to set him straight that his mind was on taking over the world (again). Classic.
Anyway, here’s why this is important.
[Read more…]My daughter was so disappointed with my song choice
Right after the original Frozen came out, I remember having a conversation with my daughter.
She was around 5 at that time.
We went to see it in the theatre and like a lot of the kid movies we see, we ended up talking about our favorite songs.
Hers was Let it Go (of course) but i went a different route. My favorite song was Love is an Open Door. I mean how can you resist a duet with such harmony? That’s what I thought, but when I said it, she looked at me completely mortified and said…
[Read more…]This guy getting knocked out has everything to do with your next career move
Feb 11, 1990 in Tokyo.
Buster Douglas went down in the 8th by way of a right uppercut, and then bounced back to take Mike Tyson down for a KO in the tenth with right uppercut left, right, left hook.
42:1 odds against Buster Douglas.
Time and time again we see these upsets in sports and they are only possible because someone gave themselves a chance by showing up.
You have the promoter who does the marketing and makes sure it’s a fight people want to see.
And then you have the delivery of the product, which is the fight or game itself.
Make no mistake — these are two completely separate skills, although they complement each other nicely.this guy getting knocked out has everything to do with your next career move
Here’s why I bring this up.
[Read more…]I hate New Years resolutions and you should too
So here we are in the year 2020 and no flying cars or jetpacks.
That’s the first thing I thought entering the new year. The second thing I thought was I hate New Years resolutions. You should too.
And here’s why…
[Read more…]Read this for 30 seconds to find out 3 signs your career is at a dead end
Have you ever been around a little kid where they blurted out the 100% truth and the parent responds by saying “he doesn’t know what he’s saying”…
… or reprimanding the kid by saying “we don’t say things like that.” or ‘that’s not nice.”
I learned a different perspective on this last week.
[Read more…]There’s a career throttling epidemic amongst us but today I’m sharing the cure
There’s an epidemic amongst us.
And I’m worried you might be suffering from it too.
[Read more…]Do you want safety or excellence in your career?
I was reading an email from Ramit Sethi this morning and he shared something from an interview that I HAD to share.
[Read more…]A job searcher’s worst enemy
Hey friend –
I was on Reddit the other day in r/resumes and saw a poster comment that their biggest struggle was coming up with something original.
And this person couldn’t have been more wrong. Here’s why…
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