Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012: As founder of pdxMindShare, a networking group and email list for Portland-area professionals, I’m intimately involved with the local job market. Over the past few years, I’ve seen hundreds of resumes, met hundreds of people and talked with dozens of employers. Based on those interactions, I’ve discovered a few simple secrets to getting a dream [...]
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012: I’ve been told more than once that I’m a ‘networked’ guy. Although I’ve built my Portland network from scratch over the past 11 years, I don’t consider myself a networker in a traditional sense. To me, a stereotypical networked person wears a suit, shows up at every industry event with a stack of business cards and is [...]
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012: As both a serial search-committee member and an occasional job seeker, I have observed that one of the most awkward parts of a standard academic interview often comes at the end, when the committee chair asks the candidate if he or she has any questions. Read the rest here.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012: Forget good to great. Here’s what makes a great employee remarkable. Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers… they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities. A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear on performance appraisals but nonetheless make [...]
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012: Although I’ve only interviewed for a handful of jobs since graduating college, I have had the pleasure of sitting in many informational and formal interviews as a manager, digital marketing agency owner and founder of a Portland-area networking group. Based on my experience, and that of my network of business owners, I’ve distilled four secrets [...]
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012: Talk your way into the job you choose, qualified or not! Could you hear yourself saying … “Sir, my goal is to succeed. I plan to do that by working hard to provide value and service to our clients and my co-workers. I will fall and stumble at times, however I am determined to use these opportunities [...]
Friday, February 17th, 2012: Today everyone is using social media in their job search. People make connections and share their work on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter — and with the recent explosion of Pinterest, there’s a new player in the game. Read the rest here.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012: Reaching the apex of the career ladder by gradually getting promoted to the top is a thing of the past. From my experience as a career coach, career ladders in most organizations have not existed for at least fifteen years. Read the rest here.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012: “Relatively few people should start companies,” Reid Hoffman says bluntly. And he should know. As a co-founder of popular social networking website LinkedIn and an influential Silicon Valley angel investor, he has engineered several startup success stories — and now he has distilled his business wisdom into a book, The Start-up of You: Adapt to the [...]
Monday, February 13th, 2012: Several of us were talking this morning about the frustrations of waiting for someone to do their job. I see it time and time again yet still find it surprising that some people just don’t realize how damaging some actions can be to a career, a reputation, and a personal brand within your industry. Read [...]
