2024-04-07 06:30
One of the most inspiring people in American history is Benjamin Franklin. Something that very few people realize is that Franklin also wrote what is arguably one of the best self… Read More
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2024-04-06 06:30
A few months ago I was temporarily staying in Pasadena, California, about an hour from home, where I’d been dropped off without a car. I didn’t know how I’d manage… Read More
2024-03-22 06:30
Several years ago a friend called me and encouraged me to interview at his law firm. He told me people at the firm were involved in various movie deals and hobnobbing with movie stars. He t… Read More
2024-03-21 06:00
If you understand the message I am about to share with you, you will thrive in your career and life, and you will also be very good at identifying organizations and people to avoid. The mes… Read More
2024-03-20 06:00
It was not until after the Civil War in the United States, (1861-1865), that tomato agriculture developed into a major industry in the United States. Prior to this time there was an incredi… Read More
2024-03-19 06:30
Several months ago I was at a party and found myself seated next to a world famous media personality and star. This person is so famous that I see them on the magazine covers, on television… Read More
2024-03-14 06:30
I have found that by examining the careers of the most successful people out there you can learn a ton of lessons. It does not matter if the person is a business person, a musician, or a rel… Read More
2024-03-06 06:30
A couple of years ago, I received a telephone call from a friend of mine who is a pretty well known business motivational speaker, that he had gotten some tickets to a party at the Playboy M… Read More
2024-03-03 06:00
I used to be a law professor, and I remember in my class there was the nicest kid you can imagine who had immigrated from Russia a few years previously and wanted to be an attorney. He hard… Read More
2024-02-07 06:30
It concerns us to know the purpose we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
-Aristotle
Goal setting is the single… Read More
2024-02-05 06:20
Most people in the job market need something else even more than they need a job. The same is generally true for people that are unhappy with their career paths. Contrary to what many of the… Read More
2024-01-16 06:30
When I say I’m excited about government jobs, I mean it. They’re better than many other jobs this day and age and often provide good benefits, pensions, and to some extent, empl… Read More
2024-01-15 10:00
The field of education—including elementary schools, high schools, colleges, and universities—is a very exciting place to look for a job because of the tremendous number of jobs… Read More
2024-01-13 06:30
Yesterday I saw the most interesting story about Nicholas Cage. Apparently, he just had a pyramid commissioned and delivered to a Louisiana cemetery for his body to be placed in when he die… Read More
2024-01-10 06:30
Many people want and demand a lot out of life. They want the happiest family, the best material goods and vacations, the best homes, and the best cars. They demand the best in everything. T… Read More
2023-12-26 06:00
One of the little-known facts about Albert Einstein is that he attended a school that followed the teaching methods of the Swiss educator Johann Pestalozzi. Pestalozzi schools taught… Read More
2023-12-18 06:00
One of the most persistent problems people in the work world have is their failure to collaborate with, and learn from, their co-workers. Several factors are necessary for success in any jo… Read More
2023-12-11 06:00
When you consider all that you are capable of achieving, nothing is more exciting than imagining who and what you can and will become in your life. To do this, you must first learn to ignore… Read More
2023-11-29 06:00
One day, when I was about 13 years old, I decided to spend the afternoon with another boy I knew from middle school. Spending the afternoon together essentially meant we would be riding our… Read More
2023-11-21 06:00
If you are serious about finding a job, it is entirely possible that your search may extend into the holiday season. To many people, conducting a job search during the holidays may seem lik… Read More
2023-11-17 06:00
One of the best ways to realize the importance of communication is through simple services, such as getting a shoeshine, ordering hotel room service, or taking advantage of valet parking. I… Read More
2023-11-16 06:00
To be denied the right to work is to be denied the right to participate in the society in which we live. It is for this reason that having the opportunity to work is probably the most import… Read More
2023-11-09 06:00
Several years ago I was moving from one house to another, and I hired three day laborers from outside of a U-Haul branch, where I had rented a truck. One of the workers was a man with a str… Read More
2023-11-06 06:00
Working in a company or any organization is often competitive and scary. The reason that it can be so scary is because around you there are so many unknowns, and there is so much informatio… Read More
2023-11-03 06:00
The job market is tough, isn’t it? During times of economic uncertainty businesses lay people off, or undergo hiring freezes. People are losing their homes, the housing market is down… Read More
2023-11-02 06:00
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.–Abraham Lincoln
Don’t exaggerate your qualifications on your résumé or in your interviews. The fact of the… Read More
2023-10-30 06:00
There is a secret to being an outstanding performer in any job and getting more raises, more recognition, and more responsibility. The secret is to be 100% focused on your work and to be pas… Read More
2023-10-24 06:00
When I was around 14 years old, I moved out of my mother’s house and in with my father, his new wife, and her daughter in a different part of town. I would stay there for a few months… Read More
2023-10-20 06:00
If you wish to get and excel at a job, one of the most important things you can do for yourself and for your employer is to love what you are doing. When I say, “love what you are doi… Read More
2023-10-17 06:00
When I was about 12 years old I went to look at BMWs with a relative of mine. We spent several hours in the dealership. My relative was trying to figure out if there was a way to get a lower… Read More
2023-10-16 06:00
One of the greatest traps people fall into is believing they are entitled to something based on what they have done in the past, or are capable of doing. An even greater problem is believing… Read More
2023-10-10 06:00
I recently had a discussion with a manager of Legal Authority, my favorite job search company for attorneys, about exactly what happens in the market when there is a recession. Specif… Read More
2023-10-04 06:00
A baby giraffe falls 10 feet from its mother’s womb and usually lands on its back. Within seconds, it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body. From this position it considers the… Read More
2023-09-29 06:00
About a year ago, I was sitting in my office and a registered letter arrived for me. The letter was from a large financial institution saying they could no longer lend me funds to provide st… Read More
2023-09-28 06:00
There once was a speedy hare who bragged about how fast he could run. Tired of hearing him boast, Slow and Steady, the tortoise, challenged him to a race. All the animals in the forest gath… Read More
2023-09-27 06:00
Can you be trusted?
This is more important than any other single question. Regardless of how motivated you are, regardless of where you went to school, regardless of your work history, if y… Read More
2023-09-20 06:00
One of the biggest secrets in marketing is the more relevant your communication, the more willing people are to respond. You can read and study everything you want about marketing, but if y… Read More
2023-09-18 06:00
During my summers in college, I rented an apartment in a really bad neighborhood of Detroit. When I say it was a bad neighborhood, I am not exaggerating. Right in front of my window, hookers… Read More
2023-09-16 06:00
At the outset, I want to make a couple of observations because I think that looking for a public interest job or a job with a nonprofit is among the most interesting types of searches you c… Read More
2023-08-29 06:00
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumsta… Read More
2023-08-15 06:00
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of… Read More
2023-08-09 06:00
Some time ago I saw a movie called The Secret. Afterward, I read the book, which essentially professes you need to visualize where you are going in order to get there. A famous book quoted… Read More
2023-08-08 06:00
I am about to provide you some of the strangest job search and career advice you will ever receive from someone who’s in the recruiting industry. One thing you should know about me is… Read More
2023-08-07 06:00
We essentially have two choices in our lives. First, we can be average. We can let the people around us mold us, and we can let society marginalize us, as we follow its so-called norms. Alte… Read More
2023-08-04 06:00
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu says, “To go one thousand lives without fear, go through unpeopled ground.” To me, this means when you go forward, you should move through open space t… Read More
2023-07-14 06:00
People fail far too often in the working world because they focus too much on the money they earn at their jobs. The money you are paid is generally commensurate with your contribution to s… Read More
2023-07-13 06:00
One of my favorite stories is about a man who has a creak in his house. For years he has tried one way or another to fix the creak, but every single time he walks through the old house it st… Read More
2023-07-10 06:00
When I used to apply for jobs myself, I would always go to the office supply store and purchase the absolute most expensive paper and envelopes I could. I remember, the paper I used to purc… Read More
2023-06-19 06:00
At Toyota’s headquarters in Tokyo, one of the most striking things you see when you first enter is a collection of three pictures. The first is of Toyota’s founder, the second i… Read More
2023-06-18 06:00
Several years ago we had an employee at one of our companies who was extremely intelligent. This person was older and had worked at several jobs before coming to our company. Although he&rs&helli…Read More
2023-06-15 06:00
For some reason, I have started receiving a number of invitations from local stores to go and spend an evening looking at stuff—”new fall collections,” for example. It coul… Read More
2023-06-14 06:00
When I was 15 years old, my grandmother took me to a Honda motorcycle dealership one day and bought me a moped. I believe it was called an Aero 50. That was one of the greatest days of my l… Read More
2023-06-10 06:00
Most people never do their work the best way they can. To be successful you need to make every single day at work, every single interview, and every single job you apply for the most import… Read More
2023-06-08 06:00
When I was about 16 years old, I purchased a book that was a translation of old Buddhist teachings and Zen tales. I lost track of this book long ago; however, much of its content was quite m… Read More
2023-05-31 06:00
Several years ago I was getting ready to interview with a law firm in New York. It was my first interview ever as a law student and I was pretty nervous. I was trying to get on an elevator a… Read More
2023-05-30 06:00
One of the greatest things you can do for yourself is to learn from every single experience you have ever had. Each and every day you are having experiences, and you choose what to do with t… Read More
2023-05-27 06:00
When you look at the people who are the most successful and who do the best in their trade, you often find a commonality: They are all doing something that they love, which comes naturally… Read More
2023-05-10 06:00
Even when a bird stands still, we sense it has wings.
— Anonymous
The meaning of this to me (and it may be different for you) is that you can choose to be whoever you want to be in thi… Read More
2023-04-18 06:00
I have found that by examining the careers of the most successful people out there you can learn multiple lessons. It does not matter if the person is a business person, a musician, or… Read More
2023-01-21 06:00
I read another article about someone in Los Angeles crashing a Ferrari into a pole today. The car was split in half. The driver of the Ferrari was Charles Lewis, a famous mixed mar… Read More
2022-06-19 06:00
Predominantly, this is an e-book that talks about the intricacies and clarities on various attributes of management, and enables all those who aspire to be future managers, or want to embark… Read More
2022-06-12 06:00
Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins is one of my favorite books. It is a classic book and something that many people I know who are extremely successful have claimed as the source of th… Read More
2022-05-18 06:30
I attended a private high school named Cranbrook-Kingswood. There was a lot of competition to get accepted. A couple of years before I started there, the founder of Little Caesar’s Piz… Read More
2022-05-08 06:30
Napolean Hill, the author of probably the greatest success self help book of all time, Think & Grow Rich, was massively influenced by Charles Haanel’s most famous work, The Master… Read More
2021-12-25 06:07
Regardless of what you do, the odds are that you could potentially get a job teaching. If you have significant professional experience in a field (or even not that significant professional… Read More
2021-12-23 06:20
All of us have incredible potential that is rarely, if ever, awakened. This book discusses the power of the solar plexus and our ability generate great potential and accomplishment using it… Read More
2021-12-22 06:20
Several years ago, I was on an airplane that sat on the tarmac for at least an hour due to a screaming rap star. Seated not far from me (in coach) was a very famous rap star, and he was fur… Read More
2021-12-21 06:28
I watched a chilling story on CNN yesterday about a man who has started a business driving his small motorboat up and down a river outside of Shanghai, finding and picking up suicide victim… Read More
2021-12-20 06:20
I saw the most interesting documentary on Mike Tyson recently, James Toback’s Tyson. A review of the film in Time magazine relates:
At first he was a variation on the proverbial 97-po… Read More
2021-12-19 06:20
From ages 13 to 17, I attended six different schools in a variety of cities and countries. I never found attending these new schools all that difficult. What I disliked, though, was p… Read More
2021-12-18 06:30
A persistent fight that many couples have is that one may like to get out and do all sorts of things (meet people, dine out, and so forth) and the other may enjoy just sitting at home doing… Read More
2021-12-17 06:23
At least a decade ago, I started receiving all of these phone calls from American Express Financial Advisors urging me to invest with them my 401(k) from my previous job. After putting off… Read More
2021-12-16 06:10
Let me start with some recent figures, from 2008:
“The median job search among those winning positions in the third quarter lasted nearly 4.4 months,” up from 3.6 months in the… Read More
2021-12-15 06:20
I know of so many people who fail to get jobs and, ultimately, do not have good careers because they keep their minds cluttered with things that have nothing to do with their job search. I… Read More
2021-12-14 06:20
Several years ago, I had a girlfriend who would fly off the handle at the slightest criticism. It didn’t matter who was criticizing her. She would call people ugly, smelly, shor… Read More
2021-12-13 06:20
I cannot tell you how many people have ruined their careers by having the wrong attitude when it comes to working weekends and holidays. Although you may consider your work just a job, if y… Read More
2021-12-12 16:45
Some of the happiest, most well-adjusted, and most effective people I know are also people who have a profound ability to disconnect from their work.
They can disconnect rapidly and put them… Read More
2021-12-11 17:40
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
–Tacitus (c. 55-120 A.D.)
“Oh, I already have a friend there. I’… Read More
2021-04-05 06:00
It might not seem like it at first glance, but truly, there are more resources to find jobs than you could ever take advantage of. In fact, despite having been in the career business for mo… Read More
2021-04-03 06:00
When I was practicing law, there was a guy who must have been in his early 40s who had broken with reality. I think he really might have gone insane. He desperately wanted to get… Read More
2021-04-02 06:00
Napolean Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is probably, in my opinion, the best career book ever written.While the subject of the book deals with earning money, the book itself is actually a… Read More
2020-09-21 06:00
When I was younger, there was a restaurant on Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, that used to offer people a percentage off the price of their meals equal to a person’s age… Read More
2020-07-09 06:00
If there is a lack of any kind, whether it is need for employment, or for money, or for guidance, or even for healing, something is blocking the flow. And the most effective remedy: Give! S… Read More
2020-05-25 06:00
One of my neighbors in Malibu is John Paul Dejoria.
According to Forbes, he is worth over 4-billion dollars.
Dejoria started a shampoo company called Paul Mitchell with $750 while homel… Read More
2020-03-25 09:25
From the time I was 19 until I was about 27, I spent a good portion of my summers doing asphalt work around Detroit. That included asphalt sealing, hot tar crack filling, and asphalt patchi… Read More
2020-03-24 18:31
In the 1967 movie The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman plays a young, recent college graduate, Ben. At a party, Ben is congratulated by his family and their friends:
Guests: We’re all so prou… Read More
2020-03-20 18:04
One of the best sources of jobs out there is government jobs. There are so many sources of government jobs, it is astonishing. Most government jobs are poorly advertised or promoted and rec… Read More
2019-10-05 06:00
When I was in college, my girlfriend had the annoying habit of periodically declaring that the dorms were too noisy for her to sleep. What this really meant was she had decided it was time f… Read More
2019-09-24 06:00
You have probably heard before that people tend to be visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. In my experience, this is true and it is something you can generally pick up on within just a few minu… Read More
2019-07-28 06:00
In this book, Managing Your Career, Sean McPheat gives readers a practical plan on how to go about taking control of their careers, no matter what field they are in. Sean is the Founder and… Read More
2019-07-13 06:00
There is one very easy and almost fail-safe way to evaluate companies, individuals, and various groups of people. It can save you a tremendous amount of worry in business deals and it can a… Read More
2019-04-23 06:00
Ninety percent of the people I have ever interviewed as a prospective employer never tried to determine the wants, requirements, and needs of our company.
How can someone possibly obtain or… Read More
2019-03-31 06:00
The Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer Kahlil Gibran, in his book The Madman, presents a thought-provoking collection of short parables and poems ranging in length from a single para… Read More
2019-03-03 06:30
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, first published in 1908, offers advice on how to live your life, rather than just existing in the world. Following the Industrial Revolution, a large number of… Read More
2019-01-28 06:30
A few years ago, I had dinner with one of Google’s first employees. How he joined Google was a long and convoluted story that had more elements of luck than I can ever recount.
He&rsq&helli…Read More
2019-01-20 06:00
Yoritomo-Tashi presents to us ideas that enormously dominate the human mind through this tremendously inspiring book, Influence: How to Exert It. In the twelve lessons contained in this book… Read More
2019-01-07 06:30
Most people are motivated by either information, people, activities, things, or places. You are probably focused on one of these as well, and this explains why some people interest you, and… Read More
2018-12-23 06:30
In this book, David McKean talks about the secret of good IT Management. The book offers insights into leadership and communication styles that are essential to make successful IT managers… Read More
2018-12-16 06:00
In his book What All the World’s A-Seeking, Ralph Waldo Trine explains in an extremely lucid and simple manner the laws and forces governing true life with all its glories and what mak… Read More
2018-12-02 06:00
I read this book some time back and I’d like to share it with you. The Power of Concentration by Theron Dumont is an incredibly interesting book and has lots of useful infor… Read More
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