Category: Career
How to Make the Right Choices After Getting Fired
Firing is a traumatic experience. But you need to get your mind around it, gain control over your life and decide your next move.
Office Campaigns and Crusades
My recent article about dealing with unreasonable bosses and unreasonable requests generated a lot of debate. Some readers agreed with me that you often need to simply grin and bear it until you can get a better job, for various practical and financial reasons. Others argued that the best courseRead More
How to Get Ready to Be Promoted
It’s not what you know or who you know. But rather who knows what you know.
How to Make Yourself Indispensable
In this economy, job security is a bit shaky. It’s more important than ever to excel at your job. If you have a good job, or one you’re enduring until you find that dream job, make yourself irreplaceable. This is how I did it.
Projecting the Right Image: 5 Tips For Having a Great Professional Portrait Taken
Whether you need a headshot to serve as your Twitter avatar or to accompany your Facebook page, LinkedIn profile, blog or official work bio, having a great portrait is more important than ever for today’s savvy professional. Here are five key tips to get that picture-perfect photo:
Internal Hiring: How to Be the Right Candidate
You’ve been with your company for a little while now. You’re great at your job but you’re thinking you could use a little more challenge. Or change. Or both. You’ve invested some time with this company and you like the culture, the business, and the benefit plan. But there’s stillRead More
This is Not in My Job Description
For those of you who are young, idealistic, and just brimming with shiny hopes and dreams, I have some unfortunate news: Life isn’t fair. Nor is it reasonable, rational, sensible, logical, nice, or fluffy. Life is strange, ridiculous, cruel, fantastic, bizarre, whimsical, capricious, and just a little bit dirty. IRead More
How to Get Hired at a Startup
There are 1,523 articles about how to get noticed, be presentable, and format a résumé for getting hired at a big company with a real HR department.
But what about getting hired at a little startup? What if you want to be employee #10? Or #1?
Here are 5 specific ways to get noticed, demonstrate the right attitude, and get hired by a startup.