Building a Network

As established in my earlier blog, if you want a job you need a network. Networks account for the vast majority of new hires every year. Your greatest chance at successfully getting a new job is through a network.
Great, so how do you get one of those network things?
A network consists of everyone you know [...]

Time for a Career Change?

It’s time for a little cubicle anthropology. We all love to do it so don’t be shy about it. If Marlon Perkins was still alive doing Mutual of Omaha, he surely would have run through the entire animal kingdom and refocused his energy on the different breeds of workers throughout the corporate world. So, in [...]

Importance of Networking

I’m a traditionalist. When, as a young lad, I set out to find a job I did it the only way I knew how: I looked for a “Now Hiring” sign in a store’s window, then went in and filled out an application. I got my first job that way. It worked for me once [...]