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Have you ever known someone whose life seems to go wrong at every turn? I have known several people like this. Here are some examples of things that have gone wrong for them: They sign up for a course in school, forget they are enrolled, and get an F...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 5 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 Use Newspaper Classified Ads and Newspaper Help Wanted Ads to Look for Jobs
Historically, the best place to look for jobs was in the newspaper help wanted ads. In fact, newspapers were largely supported by revenue from help wanted ads until recently. The stories you have likely heard about various newspapers closing...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 1 CommentAbraham Lincoln, Bringing People Together, and Your Career
Several years ago, after September 11, 2001, I was speaking with the founder of an internet consulting firm in San Francisco. The firm was getting ready to close its doors and go out of business because all of its work had gone away. During the several...
Filed under Advancement, Featured Leave a CommentYou Need to Be in Favor with the Right People
When I started my first company, back in 2000, I and the other people who were with me at the time sat down and had a three-day meeting during which we discussed what we wanted the company to be then and what we wanted it to become. It was an incredible...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 2 CommentsWhen I was in college I remember going for an interview with the investment bank JP Morgan. I had no idea how I had gotten the interview but it was for something dealing with finance and statistical studies of Asian securities markets. I had gone to...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 6 CommentsWomen and Men, Planning, and Unemployment
In my days of practicing law, some of the other young male associates were extremely secretive about sharing their personal lives with anyone in the firm. There were two things they did not necessarily want everybody to know about: Whether they were...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 4 CommentsCharlemagne, the Roman Empire, and the Importance of Good Leadership
Over the past several years I have become fascinated with leaders and entrepreneurs and what makes them successful. The power of an entrepreneur or leader — to take an idea, unite people around it, and create a long-functioning and successful organization...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 1 CommentFeral Children, Puzzles, Jews, and Filters
I remember growing up around kids with books of puzzles and games in elementary school and junior high school; these were always the kinds of kids that did not fit in. They also got beat up after school, were awkward during gym class, got pushed around...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 3 CommentsAristotle loved studying argumentation and the methods of appeal used to convince someone of a given idea. Aristotle believed that people can be persuaded by the following means: Ethos (an appeal to credibility) Pathos (an appeal to emotions) Logos...
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