19 Apr 11 How to Find a Job You Love and Where You Excel

Authenticity is key in looking for work. Simon Sinek, author of Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, shares about that in this video (click to see embedded video):

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Tags: attitude, authenticity, branding, communication, Employment, interviewing, Job interview, Simon Sinek, video

07 Jul 10 Can Steve Jobs help you get hired?

Last night I attended the $timulus Book/Networking Group in West Chester, Ohio. Monte Washburn led the discussion about Carmine Gallo’s book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience(affiliate link).

The context of these discussions is always around how the principles within can help people in their job searches and careers.

Check out Monte’s blog post.

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09 Nov 09 Pursuing Your Passion

Ever feel like someone’s trying to tell you something?

1. Early this afternoon I did an in-person interview for How I Got My Job with a good friend of mine, Marc Hopkins, about how he got his recent job as an adjunct professor at a local university. During that interview he talked about YourOneDegree.com. From their website: “Your One Degree is the specific focus and direction you were put on planet earth to pursue and accomplish.”
2. Later this afternoon, while browsing the aggregate feed for this year’s National Podcast Post Month (NaPodPoMo) website, I found this post from Will Brown entitled Pursuing Your Passion. I was intrigued so much that I had to take a second listen.
3. My good friend and Cincinnati-area colleague Cliff Ravenscraft from GSPN.tv has a blog and podcast entitled Pursuing a Balanced Life. You may have seen some updates on Twitter with the #PABL hashtag; Cliff and this community are behind that. He left a high-paying job selling insurance to pursue a passion in podcasting and has been able to make a living doing that. I’ve heard him share his story a number of times, and I continue to be inspired.

Maybe it’s that being in transition removes a lot of the other constraints I felt like I was under when I was working full-time, but I’m at least seeing a lot more varied opportunities come my way to try new things.

What about you?

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Tags: Cliff Ravenscraft, GSPN, mission, multiple careers, NaPodPoMo, One Degree, PABL, passion

29 Nov 07 One Week Job

Have you heard that you’ll have many jobs during your worklife? This guy’s working on one different job every week for a year: One Week Job

Hat tip to Shea Gunther via Twitter

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29 Dec 06 From the Comments – Advice on Uncovering a Passion to Turn Into a Career

Earlier this week I wrote a post entited, “You’ve Fallen – Now Get Back Up“. I got a comment, and because my response was rather lengthy, I decided to put it into its own post. Also, I wanted to provide you all with an opportunity to share your advice. Here’s the comment:

Just stumbled onto this blog as a new effort in my 10-year unsuccessful search to uncover a passion that I can turn into a career, preferably an unconventional one.

Any advice for someone who is not afraid to try and fail, but who is desperately afraid of failing to find something to try?

First of all, thanks for leaving a comment.

10 years is quite a long time. Without knowing much about you personally, I can only offer some general advice and come from the perspective of job seeker myself. I guess it’s really good that you’re making steps toward looking.

When you say that you’re “desperately afraid of failing to find something to try,” I have to wonder what you’ve already done in your quest to learn more about yourself. I know of several types of career assessments available (check out the blogroll or search around here or via your favorite search engine).

I believe that the key for any job seeker is really knowing himself. You have to know what your where your interests and aptitudes lie.

I also believe it’s important to do some “market research”. Find a need and fill it.

I also believe that a single blog is not the end point. There are many others out here with other points of view and their own wisdom. So read what others are saying.

Lastly, and you’ll read this elsewhere, get tied in with other people. I’m talking about networking. I encourage you to try out JibberJobber (see the link on this page). It’s a great tool that I’ve started using to manage the details of my job-searching relationships, and I’ve found it to be very helpful so far.

With that in mind, don’t be a stranger! If you’d like to contact me directly, send me an email: danimal0416 [at] gmail [dot] com

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