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Focus on Other Geographic Areas to Get Your Job Search Going
Let me start with some recent figures, from 2008: “The median job search among those winning positions in the third quarter lasted nearly 4.4 months,” up from 3.6 months in the second quarter. It’s also notable that 13.4 percent of...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 1 CommentOver Deliver Because It Is Not about You
Several years ago, I was in the midst of opening up various legal recruiting offices around the United States. In my sheer enthusiasm for the business, I would bring new recruiters from around the country to Los Angeles and have them live with me for...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 2 CommentsMutual Funds, Casinos, and Opportunities
At least a decade ago, I started receiving all of these phone calls from American Express Financial Advisors urging me to invest with them my 401(k) from my previous job. After putting off the caller for some time, I eventually met with the guy. He came...
Filed under Advancement, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 1 CommentOur Habits Determine the Outcome of Our Lives
When I was younger, I was reasonably good at tennis and would have been capable of being an exceptional player if I had developed the correct habits. By the age of 15 I had developed a serve so strong that even professional tennis players had difficulty...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons Leave a CommentThere is a story I heard some time ago about a man named Rabbi Akiva, who lived in Palestine. He was considered an extremely good person and also a sage. He became the greatest scholar of his time (he lived in the second century) through his consistency....
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 10 CommentsThe Most Important Person You Communicate with Is Yourself
“The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven” -John Milton Several years ago, I was home after graduating from college and I met a guy who was friends with my girlfriend’s brother. He had graduated from Yale University...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed, Life Lessons 5 CommentsYour Ultimate Goal: How You Can Find Job Security
One of the worst things that can happen to people is getting fired from a job with no notice. It can be devastating to lose your source of income unexpectedly, especially in a contracting economy. Losing a job can color our perspective on the world and...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 8 CommentsRefuse to Acknowledge Setbacks and Intimidations, and You Will Never Fail
The police pulled in behind us the second we turned into my mother’s driveway, and turned on their lights. I was very frightened. I thought I might be going to jail that evening. I was not sure. I had assumed my mother and sister were staying in for...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentVitamins, Oprah, and the Importance of Taking Action Right Away
For some reason, I have started getting calls from India around 11:00 each morning from a company trying to sell me mail-order drugs. They always lead off with telling me that they have Viagra, Cialis, and related stuff. I have never ordered...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed Leave a CommentI recommend spending a Saturday afternoon in an exotic car dealership where they sell sports cars that cost $200,000-plus. Here, you will learn a success secret of the sorts of people who purchase these cars (and those who prey on them). I have never...
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