Jan 17 2008
- Career Management Tools & Advice
Jibber Jobber Blog » What’s The Best Career Advice EVER?
I just read about Charlene Li’s departure from Forrester. She has been there for a long, long, long time (by her calculations, “36 Internet years or 63 dog years”). In her post she talked about the best career advice she ever got, and links to this post on the practically-defunct Jobster blog. Excellent stuff.
In a nutshell: “plan for job obsolescence …
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Jibber Jobber Blog » Explaining Transitions On Your LinkedIn Profile
Deb Dib, one of my career expert partners, showed me a recent change on her LinkedIn profile. I had seen Macy’s as one of her companies before, and really had no idea how she made the change to get from a buyer at Macy’s to a career coach. Check out the explanation now:
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Jibber Jobber Blog » Phone Networking Secrets Revealed by the Career Artisan, Mary Bradford
Mary Elizabeth Bradford, the Career Artisan, sent me a copy of her “Phone Networking Secrets Revealed.”
It’s a short ebook, only eleven pages. But it has some excellent information on how to call someone when you are in a job search. How to leave voice mail messages with HR or hiring managers… how to get to (or …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » Stop blaming your Blackberry for your lack of self-discipline
Are you thinking your Blackberry use is out of control and you need to turn it off? Forget it. The problem is not the Blackberry, it’s you.
The Blackberry actually gives you the freedom to effectively mix your personal life and work life so that they don’t have to compete with each other.
Don’t talk to me about the idea that …
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Jibber Jobber Blog » June 08 Personal Branding Winner of the Month - Heather Gardner
After almost two years and 19 Personal Branding winners of the month, it’s time to shift the emphasis a little.
I started this personal branding award for two reasons. First, it was to recognize those who are showing, or growing, their personal brand through current technologies. Most of the recipients are (or were) bloggers. A handful only had static websites. A …
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Jibber Jobber Blog » Five Days of Blogging Secrets
Last year for my one year anniversary I shared five posts of blogging secrets - stuff I’ve learned over a year of blogging.
I have since created a two-hour blog marketing webinar called Blog Marketing 201 - 501, which you can get for $49.95 from the CEO Training site.
Today, as I wrap up a week-long celebration of another year …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » How I started taming my workaholic tendencies
After my first visit to the farm, I quickly invited myself back. “I’m coming there without my kids,” I told him.
When I got there, he made me hamburger that was shaped a little too much like how it might have looked in the cow’s body, and then he asked me what I wanted.
“I want this to be a date,” …
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Jibber Jobber Blog » One Of The Most Compelling Reasons To Blog
This is the second-to-last post celebrating my two years of blogging.
I’m big on blogging. I started the Personal Branding You Get It award to recognize normal professionals who are using this technology to develop their personal brand, perhaps establish themselves as subject matter experts, and even thought leaders.
Maybe they didn’t start out that way, but it …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » How to sell anything to anyone
People are always asking me what our business model is for Brazen Careerist. Now that we have a network of 150 great bloggers, we are focusing on companies. A lot of companies come to us asking for access to the bloggers. Not surprisingly, companies want to recruit from the bloggers and their friends. But we think what the bloggers want is …
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Jibber Jobber Blog » My Favorite Blog Posts From The Last Two Years
I’ve been thinking about my blog, what it means to me, what it is, and where it can go. As I think about my blog, there are a few blog posts that jump out as personal favorites - here are six of my favorites:
Substantiate Yourself - I loved this post - it talks about how to show …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » How to identify someone who is giving you bad advice
The worst career advice I ever gave was to my brother’s college roommate, Robert Buckley. He was one year out of college when he asked me if he should quit healthcare consulting to become an actor.
I said, No, that’s the dumbest idea I ever heard.
He told me he thought he had talent, and then (like I wasn’t against the …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » Seven reasons why graduate school is outdated
It used to be that the smart kids went to graduate school. But today, the workplace is different, and it might be that only the desperate kids go to graduate school. Today there are new rules, and new standards for success. And for most people, graduate school is the path to nowhere. Here are seven reasons why:
1. Graduate school is an …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » Welcome London Guardian Readers!
Welcome London Guardian readers, and thank you for visiting my blog. I write about careers, and often the advice I give includes stories from my own life. Here are some places to start reading that will give you a taste of this intersection of work and life.
Three columns leading up to the article you read about my divorce: …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » The hardest part of my job is that everyone lies about parenting
When I was growing up, there was lots of chatter in the media about how models gave girls bad role models. Today that’s old news. What we should talk about now is how the media portrays moms.
Take a look at the spread in People magazine of Jennifer Lopez and her one-month-old twins. The photos are so elegant that at first …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » Twitter, social media, and unmashing the mashable
When I started doing Twitter, I put my Twitter feed on the sidebar of my blog. It seemed smart: more content means more traffic, and more traffic is good. But after two weeks of Twitter, I removed it. And then, when I was blogging about important topics like ditching Hebrew school as a career harbinger, commenters asked what happened to my …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » New way to measure blog ROI
I got an email from this guy who told me he thinks I need a friend on a farm. I think he wrote the email right after I wrote about being a pint-sized ENTJ on the estate-sized front lawn of my grandma’s house. I am not sure how he knew I am fascinated with farms, but I am. And I’m always …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » How to be a good manager: Be generous
There are a lot of rules for first-time managers. For example, never hold a meeting without an agenda, because if you don’t know what you’re going to do there, then no one else will know what you’re doing, either. But the rule about agendas is a great example, because, like most rules for good management, … [Link]
Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » None of us has especially unique career trouble - not even Emily Gould
One of the most dangerous things you can do in your career is to think you are different from everyone else. The biggest validation of that idea comes in AA meetings ??? it is widely understood by this group that thinking you’re different is just an excuse not to get help, an excuse to think you live outside what we already …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » The best brands have fanatical focus and a fuzzy underbelly
My career is built on branding. The first time I tried it was in beach volleyball. Like many professional sports, the way to make a living is from sponsors. While other people changed partners every week trying to trade up for someone better, I picked someone shorter than I was, so she’d stick with me. Then I focused more energy on …
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Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk » Keeping an eye on my career while I go through a divorce
Let me first say that my lawyer is not happy when I blog about my divorce. But now that I???ve been in a front-page article of the New York Times for blogging about the divorce, I think we???ve passed the point of discretion.
And anyway, I think it’s okay to blog because I am the transparent type, so it would be …
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