Like it or not, your resume and LinkedIn profile are a direct reflection of you. Beyond the words, what do they say about you? They are two distinct documents that must be written with two different frames of mind. Take time to understand the difference ...
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If you are at a networking event, don't just hand out business cards or resumes and move on. According to ExecuNet ExecuNet career strategist and coach
Jade Goodhue, "The biggest ick factor is when people would walk up to me, throw me a business card and ...
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The first question shouldn't be what is it we want for the new year, it should be, what are we bringing to the new year? The reason why most New Year's Resolutions do not work out is because we think we are starting with a clean slate, but we are actually ...
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Sometimes it's the most trivial beliefs that blankets our entire perception. Everyone has experienced shyness. Some more than others. Some in public settings when speaking in front of a group or surrounded by new people at a large gathering or perhaps walking ...
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With the arrival of another new year I took a moment to look back and reflect upon which handful of posts would be especially useful for job seekers heading into 2020.
I narrowed the list down to these seven. For different reasons, they all share ...
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Neuroscientists today are upending decades of accepted ideas about the way we think and perform and turning them on their head. For example, I studied "disembodied cognition" and "embodied cognition." Disembodied cognition is the idea that that thinking ...
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I once heard someone say that procrastination isn't a behavior, it's LACK of a behavior. You see procrastination is a SYMPTOM, not the cause itself. Therefore it's a lack of behavior in response to something else. Something much deeper. It's why it seems ...
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I once heard someone say that procrastination isn't a behavior, it's LACK of a behavior. You see procrastination is a SYMPTOM, not the cause itself. Therefore it's a lack of behavior in response to something else. Something much deeper. It's why it seems ...
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I once heard someone say that procrastination isn't a behavior, it's LACK of a behavior. You see procrastination is a SYMPTOM, not the cause itself. Therefore it's a lack of behavior in response to something else. It's why it seems sometimes that no amount of ...
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Quitting doesn't mean "I can't do it." Quitting actually means that the physical, emotional and/or mental pain is too much to continue.
The problem is that our perception of the pain we're feeling NOW combined with the pain that we EXPECT we'll feel in the ...
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"I'm anxious to have the opportunity to speak with you..." That was the first line in an email an executive I was working with asked me to look at before he sent it out. He was going to send this to an interviewer and potential future boss with whom he had a ...
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The first line of a group email to the leadership team from the president read, "I find our investors comments troubling." Mr. Spokesman was one of the investor's and the spokesman who sent the troubling email. After a list of 4-5 business issues from the ...
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