December 2010

The 3R’s of How-to-Job-Network: Small Town, Big City

December 31, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Research supports that networking is the best way for most (people like you, as Richard Nelson Bolles of What Color is Your Parachute fame and I would suggest) to find your next job.  It’s estimated that 80% of job openings are unlisted, which means that most jobs will be filled through networking, [...]

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Jed York: When the Boss Needs A Helping Hand

December 30, 2010

Image via Wikipedia The boss, it turns out is, human. That can be hard to believe in an age where CEOs can be paid a lot of money and deified at the drop of a hat. But it’s true, and easy to spot when the CEO is younger, less experienced, and front and center of [...]

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“How long should I wait until I look for another job after realizing the one I just got isn’t the right fit for me?”

December 29, 2010

Image via Wikipedia My twitter friend Hutch Carpenter noted (tweeted actually) that “Quora is the new black” – always a signal that something may become popular – the website provides an interesting mix of questions and answers in a quasi-curated format. Co-founders Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever and the rest of the team have created for [...]

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Man (or Woman) in the Mirror: When Do You Fire the Boss?

December 28, 2010

Image via Wikipedia The San Francisco 49ers fired their head coach Mike Singletary yesterday. I don’t know Singletary, but have followed his career since 1985 when I lived in Chicago for five years (comprising what I refer to as the longest decade of my life) and he played for the Chicago Bears. Singletary was an [...]

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The Talent Hunt: I’ll Take “Kate”

December 27, 2010

Image via Wikipedia “Kate Badler” (not their real name) is the type of person the Carol Dwecks and Angela Duckworths of the world love. Working at separate universities (Columbia and Stanford, and Penn) and doing separate research, the studies that Dr. Dweck and Dr. Duckworth have done suggest that performance and achievement is less about “innate” [...]

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