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Your Job Search and Future Prospects Will Be Determined by the Company You Keep
I have had the most unusual series of interviews over the past few weeks. Yesterday I interviewed a woman who came in smelling like alcohol–to such an extent that my eyes were watering. I asked her about her record and she told me that she had...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 28 CommentsConcentrate on the Process, Not the Results
Some time ago, I was listening to a seminar about a company that was in the furniture business. This company decided that because it was doing so well, it should expand into the piano business, and also sell pianos. They went out and purchased a Steinway...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 8 CommentsA long time ago, more than a decade back, I found myself standing on the side of the road, on a turnpike, somewhere on the East Coast of the United States. I had been dropped off on the side of this strange highway by a woman I was with, who, in a fit...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons Leave a CommentThe Best Way to Prepare for a Job Search and Interviews
Several years ago when looking for a position in Los Angeles, I interviewed with numerous law firms. In virtually every one of these interviews I ran across an attorney who knew not one, not two, not three—but numerous, numerous attorneys in my...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 6 CommentsOrder and Disorder and Your Career
Every single person, place, or thing that you encounter follows these laws, which present and repeat themselves time and time again. In fact, both order and disorder are good things because they can be used to lead to great improvement in our personal...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 4 CommentsYou Need to Condition Yourself to Make a Lasting Change
One Saturday evening around 10:00 p.m., I ran into one of my neighbors at the grocery store. We were both buying ice cream. My neighbor is a very well-known businessman and someone I have always looked up to from a distance. We started chatting and he...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed Leave a CommentUse Your Emotion Instead of Being a Critic
When I was an attorney, I stopped going out to lunch with other attorneys during the day. The reason was not that I was not hungry. Instead, I stopped going out to lunch because just about everyone I worked with would want to dedicate the lunch to a...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 3 CommentsYour Ability to Be Free Will Determine Your Success
A crucial part of your future success and happiness is having the ability to be free. The concept of freedom is difficult for most people to truly understand because hardly anyone is really free, in the deepest sense of the word. Most people are trapped...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 4 CommentsHow Much Do You Want Your Dream?
I live on the beach in Malibu, California, on a cliff overlooking the ocean. I have a fairly large lot for the area and regularly rent out my house and lot for weddings, television shows, model shoots, and that sort of thing. I enjoy this. It is fun...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed Leave a CommentCarrot Peelers, Sales, Personality and Your Job Search
A couple of years ago, I saw a bunch of articles in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and other publications about a guy named Joe Andes. Here is a portion of one profile of him from the May 2006 Vanity Fair: In the early 90s a man...
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