How to Start Your Own Business Even Though You Don’t Know How – Part 1
Chapter One – Launching You, Inc. Start your own business by stopping. Stop stopping yourself. If you have a great idea, or even if you don’t, you can start your own business. It won’t be easy. But you can do it. You say you don’t have the time? Stop. You don’t have the money? Oh […]
The New American Dreamer—From Dreams to Reality
You have done a great job at interviewing for a job and now you sit by the phone and wait for it to ring, right? Wrong. After impressing everyone at the interview you came home and sent a thank you note not just to the person interviewing you, but also to anyone who attended and […]
The New American Dreamer: At Last, The Interview
The first alarm goes off and just as you are about to hit snooze, a second, louder alarm goes off and it might be then that you remember me saying what a good idea it was to set two alarms the day of your big interview. Having laid your clothes out the night before and […]
The New American Dreamer: Dress & Rehearsal
We have arrived. You got the call, you flew through the phone interview (see our previous story) and now they want to meet you. It’s time for the interview. I want to make sure we emphasize the importance of this interview by taking two entries to cover it dividing this opportunity into the “pre-interview” phase […]
The New American Dreamer: Tell A Phone To Hire You
As many as one in six job interviews now begins on the phone. Companies looking to save time and money choose to pre-screen applicants on the telephone rather than with a face-to-face meeting. For some, this development is good news. Imagine sitting at home in sweatpants and flip-flops, drinking coffee from a favorite mug, and […]
The New American Dreamer—Call Waiting
All set for that job interview? Of course you are. Before that happens, you may have to manage correspondence, specifically emails, from potential employers. There will probably be some surprises along the way, so let’s get to work. Why am I spending so much time talking about how to respond to an email? Because I […]
The New American Dreamer: Head for Cover
Of all the things you need to get a job, in many cases the most debatable and argued over piece may be the cover letter. I have talked to many hiring managers who tell me that they don’t even read them and yet on the other hand they tell me if there isn’t one attached, […]
The New American Dreamer—Find Your Dream Job
At this point we hopefully have a bird’s eye view of the current hiring landscape (see our previous story on job boards) where we see companies at every level utilizing the Internet to find many of their new hires. Understand that this means employers have more control over who sees these job postings simply by […]