At a networking event this week, a colleague thanked me for responding to his email. He added that he was glad that I hadn’t been too embarrassed to answer his email after a delay of several weeks—maybe even a month.
I repeated the wisdom someone else had given me: “It’s never too late to follow up.”
“Really?”
Now that I’m teaching a career development class, I’m on the look out for engaging, valuable exercises to do with students to help them find their career path. This one was suggested to me by a friend who is studying at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and learned it there.
When you are doing a
On a recent episode of 30 Rock, NBC’s hit sitcom written by Tina Fey, the show featured a sub-plot about four new male interns: recent college graduates who formerly worked on Wall Street and now left without a job. Overly qualified and full of frat boy sensibilities, the interns persuade the character, Tracy Jordan, into partying with them every night.
“Whether in stages or directly, it is amazing how often people do get their dream job or career. The more you don’t cut the dream down, because of what you think you know about the real world, the more likely you are to find what you are looking for. Hold on to all of your
If you’re the sort of person who has many different interests and feels like you’ll never find one satisfying career path, I recently read a book called “Refuse to Choose!” by Barbara Sher [1] that says you might be what she calls a “Scanner”, someone who has “[i]ntense curiousity about numerous unrelated subjects …
This is the name of a book I am reading and have assigned to the career development course I am teaching this semester to undergraduates. The author Patrick Combs writes, “Doing what you enjoy propels you to success. How it propels you is simple. Success in any endeavor takes a lot of effort, and the
Welcome to our blog! The authors of this blog spend a great deal of time thinking of ways to make our jobs, and our lives, more enjoyable. We thought we’d get a blog started to share some of our ideas and resources related to this topic. We hope you enjoy …
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