Rethinking Scarecrow
You know the story of Oz. Scarecrow needed a brain and the Wizard complies by giving him a “diploma”. The message was clear: having a college diploma (or degree) means having a brain – a message that...
View ArticleNo “Work Experience”? – Substitute
If you don’t have a job requirement, offer something similar. It shows that you can learn the desired skill quickly. For example, Cara wants a job with a music publishing company because she is...
View ArticleA Simple Way to Stand Out Professionally
To succeed in any professional endeavor, you must make your unique value memorable. No one should need to ask you what you bring to your position that’s different or special. Your work, behavior, and...
View ArticleIncubating Creativity
I don’t know about you, but I’m beginning to tire of words like “creativity” and “innovation”. They are dying the death of a million mentions. But, I suppose, until we come up with new and better...
View ArticleMusical Skills = Entrepreneurial Skills
In interviews conducted for my book Indie Business Power, I asked some questions designed to pull deeper thinking out of my interviewees, all of whom were trained musicians and, subsequently,...
View ArticleIntentional Networking Plan
Networking is a low-cost, high-time marketing strategy. There are very few shortcuts here – relationships grow encounter after encounter, and it’s inevitably counterproductive to rush them. Whether you...
View ArticleDesigning a Path Through Change
While watching a video recently about a “design thinking” firm, the thing that struck me most was the variety of people they employed for their consulting teams. One was an opera singer, another a...
View ArticleAn AI Goes to College…
I had lunch recently with the VP of Enrollment at Berklee College of Music and on the way back to our offices, I asked him a question that had been poking around in my head: “ When do you expect...
View ArticleJob Security to Skills Security
As globalization, outsourcing, contracting, downsizing, recession and even natural disaster spread throughout the work world, “job security” can seem like a thing of the past. People entering the...
View ArticleFailing Forward
Pushing past failure is a key to success in life. In 2007 a book appeared based on that belief titled, Failing Forward. It’s thesis? That the difference between average people and achieving people is...
View ArticleDisrupting the Traditional Job Search
I just finished reading Disrupt You! by Jay Samit and in it he relates a job search story that illustrates a level of creativity and chutzpah we all can learn from: In 2010, Alec Brownstein was just...
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