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Job Seekers: Write a Script to Tell Your Story and Then Be the Star

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Everyone is unique. We go about living our lives and most of the time we follow rules which force us to appear like everyone else. We pride ourselves on being individuals and then conform to norms that make us all the same. A job search is no different. In order to be accepted as a serious candidate there must be a certain amount of adoption of the standards set by those who are hiring. A… Read More »Job Seekers: Write a Script to Tell Your Story and Then Be the Star

What Leadership Is Not

What is leadership? The viewpoint used by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the famous Jacobellis v. Ohio case in 1964 regarding pornography and obscenity comes to mind: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description…  but I know it when I see it…“ Like other things that we weakly try to define, in many cases we understand a concept by observation… Read More »What Leadership Is Not

The Weekender: Special Job Seeker Edition – Archives v.1

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                  Job Seekers: Be Like Q-tips – We talk incessantly about personal branding and how much or how little it can mean to a job search. I still hold firm to my opinion that skills and accomplishments are more important than just a brand, but what do you do when your brand is worn out and not seen as useful anymore? Then it is time for retooling the… Read More »The Weekender: Special Job Seeker Edition – Archives v.1

A Tunnel Tutorial for Job Seekers

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In the half-full/half-empty motivational pithy platitude hall of fame is an old saying that we have all heard: The light at the end of the tunnel (signifying the Yay-I’m-Almost-There syndrome) may actually be a train coming toward you (also known as the Oh-Shit-Not-Again syndrome). In the middle of a tunnel you never know exactly where you are located. Motivation to continue is based on the basic survival need that you cannot remain where you are.… Read More »A Tunnel Tutorial for Job Seekers

Leading With Your Lizard Brain

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I have always been fascinated by the human brain. There is so much pop psychology floated around by amateurs that we rarely get an honest glimpse into how it works. We hear so much about how our brains are wired, but that is gross oversimplification. If the truth were known, even the experts have difficulty exploring and understanding this organ. Functionally, parts of our brain have remained prehistoric. An excellent article by Christine Comaford in… Read More »Leading With Your Lizard Brain