Over the weekend, I saw the new movie featuring Alexis Bledel, Post Grad, which chronicles a recent college graduate’s attempts to find a meaningful job after falling short of her lifelong dream of working at a publishing house. It’s sort of like watching what would happen to Rory Gilmore if she decided to pursue publishing
This is a blog post I wished I had written so I am re-posting. It speaks to what I see as one of the biggest challenges of jobseeking right now: staying positive. This is a guest post from Lindsey Pollak’s Career Blog which I subscribe to and highly recommend.
This guest post is by Sandra Naiman, author of The
Suzanne Grossman and I are at the beach, having some heart to heart inspirational conversations and informational interviews came up. In spite of the wealth of information out there, it seems like people still have a ton of uncertainties about how to arrange them and what to ask, so I thought I’d share my two
One of my favorite new tools is making Lists of 100. I first wrote one while working with a personal coach who could tell I had lost my way a bit and needed a boost in confidence. She had me make a list of Suzanne’s 100 Gifts. The only rule, she said, was that if
I feel like I need to re-learn this lesson every week.
We send emails or leave voice messages, fingers crossed, and hope that this is it, the next great job, the next big client, the next contact who will open doors for us. And then we don’t hear back. Life intervenes, we get busy, a few
An interesting op-ed in the New York Times, “Genius: A Modern View”, by David Brooks maintains that genius isn’t born, it’s made.
Referencing recent books, “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle and “Talent Is Overrated” by Geoff Colvin, Mr. Brooks points out that the key factor separating geniuses (ranging from Mozart to Tiger Woods) from the
When Felix Frankfurter, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1939 to 1962, was asked how he became successful, he is said to have replied that it was “luck.” Similarly, Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice appointed to the Supreme Court, averred that her appointment to the bench was a “classic example of being the
Roadtrip Nation is a show on PBS that has college students traveling across the country in a bright green RV interviewing successful people about their careers and how they got where they are today. The tagline for the show is “define your own road in life.” I showed this to my students on Wednesday with
I always thought it would be a good idea to read the biographies of successful people for inspiration but never seem to get around to it. Today I was re-reading Laurence Boldt’s How to Find the Work You Love and was inspired to run out and get books by and about the greats of past
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