I walked across the stage during my undergraduate ceremony thinking I had received my ticket to the world. Unfortunately, the small private school I attended didn’t have a Career Services department, so I was on my own – with limited confidence and even less...
The Advantage Of Learning Just One Thing
Most of the time the New Year's Resolution list is a mile long. But how much of last year's list did you get accomplished? I am cringing here a bit realizing the things I didn’t accomplish. If you did all of it -- or if you can even find your 2014 resolution list --...
Run for Your Life
I have been a runner now for over 30 years at a level that many people can probably identify with. I will never be in danger of troubling the elite participants in any race but, at times of consistent training, I can put in a performance that many runners would be...
Guide to Finding a Job on a Dime
If you are fortunate enough to have a steady income or a large nest egg, you may not think twice about the financial investments of a job search, everything from taking your suits to the cleaners, to printing your resume and business cards, to traveling to and from an...
Underemployment for the Next Generation
We are increasingly wasting the potential of a huge portion of our population. Higher Education has increased exponentially in its importance, but nations have not done enough to make it easily accessible by their populations. Currently, the costs of education can...
Do You Really Want That Job?
It is no secret that the job market is becoming more and more challenging, and companies are getting flooded with resumes of candidates who are interested in that particular position. So what are companies doing to separate the qualified from the unqualified...
Secret to Successful Relationships: Go from Gold to Platinum
Chances are you’ve heard of The Golden Rule, which prescribes: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." It turns out, there’s a better rule to live and work by: The Platinum Rule. Unlike The Golden Rule, The Platinum Rule by Dr. Tony Alessandra says to...
7 Soft Skills We Never Hear About (But Must Master)
As we write our resumes, build our social media profiles and search for jobs, we hear a lot about the importance of soft skills. Communication, leadership, problem solving and other skills tend to dominate those conversations – and for good reason: hose skills are...
Life: The End or Just the Beginning?
Life. Is it the end of just the beginning? I went to a funeral yesterday. I have gone to a lot of funerals over the last 12 years of people who expected to be going to mine. It reminded me again of how we can all be so busy living, we forget about dying. We want to...