Tag Archives: Career-Job

Why am I here?

Seth Godin posts about “Why am I here?” The title made me think of how to discover your life purpose or finding your passion but it was more straight forward than that.
This is a simple mantra that is going to change the way you attend every meeting and every conference for the rest of your [...]

Using SWOT analysis for personal purposes

The image below comes from Wikipedia’s article about SWOT analysis. The article starts like this:
SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture.

I have used SWOT for business purposes but it turns out that SWOT can be used on [...]

Mission statement, visualization and pitch

Jason at JibberJobber posted about The Visualization – Where Will You Be? and Career Management Visualization – an example.
I hate your job has an interesting post about Personal Mission Statements: Way Cool where it says something well worth to remember and consider:
Do you realize that the average person spends more time planning a vacation than [...]

I Am The Walrus: Lessons In Personal Branding

There is an interesting e-book over at ChangeThis, I Am The Walrus: Lessons In Personal Branding from The Beatles. The e-book is built around a Beatles record, giving lessons in personal branding along the way.
The authors post about the e-book at their blog, ChangeThis Manifesto “I Am The Walrus” Released!.
The possibility of finding and spreading [...]

Do One Thing for Your Career Today

Jason at JibberJobber posted about a new idea of his, JibberJobber One Thing – Do One Thing for Your Career Today.
JibberJobber One Thing is a Yahoo Group that you can join to receive ONE email a day. The email will have ONE suggestion of something you can do for your career that day. [...]

A Practical Guide to Earning Six Figures

Skellie is a solid writer with great content, over at AnyWired she has created a series of posts titled A Practical Guide to Earning Six Figures.
The first post is Changing Your Mind and I love the post intro:
How to have the freedom and flexibility to live the life you want.
This first post covers ‘Deconstructing six [...]

How to become a better networker

Networking is valuable but not always easy. Here are some links that can help you improve and sharpen your skills.
Over at TheChangeBlog is a great post about How to Sharpen Your Networking Skills.
Jonathan Mead has 10 Tips for Effective Networking.
wakeuplater writes about 5 Mindsets to Reshape Your Networking. I like this part:
Instead of fitting [...]

Happy Birthday To JibberJobber… and a special offer!

Jason Alba writes about Happy Birthday To JibberJobber… and Buy-One-Year-Get-One-Year-Free!. The offer is for a limited time:
Through midnight, May 19th you can upgrade for $99 and get 24 months of premium features. This means that each month will cost just $4.13, instead of $9.95.
Congratulations to Jason and JibberJobber!

How Word-of-Mouse Spreads Your Ideas for Free

Over at ChangeThis is a free eBook about The New Rules of Viral Marketing: How Word-of-Mouse Spreads Your Ideas for Free.
For decades, the only way to spread our ideas was to buy expensive advertising or beg the media to write (or broadcast) about our products and services. But now our organizations have a tremendous opportunity [...]

Take care of your reputation

I got this quote in one of my Daily Forwards Step:
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Warren Buffett (Investment Entrepreneur)
What will YOU do differently?