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Seth Godin’s blog post today is incredibly valuable for anyone who is out of work and would like to return to earning. He gives three suggestions of high-value, attention-getting expertise you can provide: Learn to sell Learn to write Learn to produce extraordinary video and multimedia.
You may have to do one [...] I know it’s been awhile since my last entry, but there’s a good reason: I’ve finally been allowed to work! That’s right, my US work authorization is now approved. And what a surprise, there are people here who need writing expertise. I’ve been helping businesses in Wilmington, NC attract more potential customers to their websites [...] “Global Talent” is a big buzz phrase these days, isn’t it? Yet the more I talk with companies, the more I find this buzz phrase only applies to the really big firms…if at all. When you go looking for work, do you limit yourself to a small geographic area, say about a half-hour radius around [...] When I see long, in-depth resumes (and this means three pages or more), I get worried. Why?–because at this length, the resume is more about who you are than what you can do for the employer. To clarify: The employer, at the time of screening resumes to decide who to interview, does not care who [...] There’s something I don’t understand. Maybe it’s a product of sloppy thinking, of nobody ever taking people by the hand and explaining it. The issue is this: when the vast majority of people look for work, they get all scared, rushed, and want to take the first thing that comes along. They fall into jobs [...] I run into this kind of thing all the time when helping people with their job search (see if this sounds like anyone you know): Me: “So, what do you do / did you do at work?” The Other Guy: “I made sure stuff turned out. I understand business goals, and I worked [...] Reframing is a powerful perspective-changing tool with which someone takes a thing out of its expected context and forces the viewer to re-experience it as something that completely changes his or her mind about it. Ronald Reagan did this to Jimmy Carter in 1980. President Carter was going on about something anti-Republican in that year’s [...] Six years of grant applications for municipal funding of non-profit society programs crossed my desk from 2003 to 2008. Half the time somebody else would drop the ball and as chairman I’d have a last-minute assignment to complete their assessments, too. As a business administration and operations management grad, the financial and functional sections were [...] |
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