“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration." Evan Esar Make something versus nothing happen this day. What one thing might that be? Tip: Write down the one thing you would like to do today,...
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and...
Category : Career Change, Career Hub, Career Management, careers, employment, job hunt, job-search, jobs, Just For Fun, Luckenbach, personal-branding, texas, transitions, Web/Tech, Workspaces
If you’re a routine Career Hub reader, perhaps you will recall my post from last year: Everybody ‘s Somebody in Luckenbach. Remember how I was greeted by roosters during my first visit there? In a return visit a few days...
Category : Career Management, job-search, Online Career Marketing, personal-branding
“It’s never the platform. It’s always the message” - Gary Vaynerchuck This morning Facebook announced the wopping $1 billion acquisition of Instagram - the popular mobile photo-sharing app. Instagram make zero profits but Facebook are clearly paying for the so...
Category : Career Change, Career Hub, Career Management, job-search
Every year ExecuNet (a private membership network for senior-level executives and executive recruiters) publishes an Executive Job Market Intelligence Report that contains valuable information for executives. You don’t have to be in the midst of career transition to get benefit...
It’s Sunday evening and I’m writing this post whilst sitting in the departure lounge at Bangkok Airport in Thailand. Thailand is just a 2 hour flight from Singapore where I currently live, and so I’ve been here for a very...
Age Birth Date Complaints, Contradictions, Convictions Discriminatory Data Educational Embellishments / Exaggerations Flawed Facts, Failures Goals Unspecified, Poor Grammar History from Childhood Irrelevant Interests Joblessness Reasons Know-it-all attitude Lies – Little or Big Misspelled Words Negativity Obstacles in your personal...
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”...
Mozilla, the MacArthur Foundation, and HASTAC are working on a new model for standards and credentials in learning and job performance called Open Badges. Proposed digital badges allow people to know you by your achievements and contributions, not just your...
Today my client and I were talking about getting thrown off a horse. Has that ever happened to you? What did you do…never ride a horse again or did you dust off, hop back on and go giddyup on down...
