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How to Use Social Networking, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter in Your Job Search
In Los Angeles—like most major cities—if you go to a major auto dealer you will notice a group of ten or more salespeople, usually men, who are standing together (smoking, drinking coffee, gossiping, and so forth) waiting for you. In some dealerships...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentYou Need to Be in the Right Environment
For the past several years my wife and I have kept a saltwater aquarium. We did not get one of these intentionally, but when we moved into a new house several years ago, it had a saltwater tank built into the living room wall. Outside, there was a huge...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 6 CommentsAsk Others What Course You Are On
Have you ever looked back at a picture or video of yourself from five, ten or more years ago and asked yourself “What was I thinking back then?” Have you ever looked at something you did several years ago and asked yourself the same exact...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 2 CommentsThe Importance of Finding and Creating Demand
In 2000, I needed computer programmers in our company more than anything. At the time, however, it was exceedingly difficult to find a good computer programmer. I went through a lot of tough times trying to hire and keep computer programmers. Computer...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 2 CommentsDetroit Car Washes, Cash, Drug Dealers, and the Character of Your Goals
Several years ago, I used to run an asphalt business out of Detroit, Michigan. I use the phrase “out of Detroit” loosely because in the eight years or so I was in the business, I only did a few asphalt jobs in the city of Detroit. Most of...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Goal Setting 1 CommentSuccess Requires Ignoring Group Norms
When I started legal recruiting, within a few months of starting the business, I met a man who was one of the founders of the dominant legal recruiters association. At one time, he had the largest legal recruiting firm in California. As I spent time getting...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 2 CommentsTo Get a Job You Need to Get the Employer’s Attention and Be a Safe Choice
When an employer has an open position, they are generally faced with two issues: (1) it is difficult for them to focus attention on all of the applications they are receiving, and (2) they are nervous about making a good decision among the various applicants...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 1 CommentHow to Live on 24 Hours a Day, first published in 1908, offers advice on how to live your life, rather than just existing in the world. Following the Industrial Revolution, a large number of white collar workers had emerged who in many cases were unhappy...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 2 CommentsJob Hopping: It Is Always About You
Many people’s careers and lives are often held back by one small thing. You might also be holding yourself back in your career, but if you can fix this one small thing, your career and life will change for the better. If you are not able to make...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 7 CommentsConcentrate Your Effort Where You Can Grow Roots
At least once a month someone approaches me to speak about a business proposition that has absolutely nothing to do with what I do for a living. A few years ago, someone wanted me to work on building self-storage centers. A few years before that someone...
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