Jun 12, 2019 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Tips, Downsizing, Finding a Job, Job Search, Transition |
We are all guilty of it. You more than me if you work for a company. In songs about work it is often referred to as working for the man. I got an email from somebody in my network the other day. It was a LinkedIn message. Is your LinkedIn email connected to your work...
Aug 24, 2017 | Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Tips, Hank Blank |
Sorry but true. I got an e mail from somebody in the Bay Area the other day. The place where rents are sky high. Homelessness climbing at double digits and the commutes are as long as the Sunday drives of the past. She said that nobody in Silicon Valley would hire...
May 2, 2017 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, HR, Networking |
A NEW BOSS. I remember what a new boss meant in the Old Normal. The talk was often boy they are really smart and I am looking forward to learning from them. Today not so much. I have written in the past that an agency client relationship can be most perilous when the...
Oct 25, 2016 | Career, Career Advice, Millennials |
I remember a TV show in the old normal called “Who Do You Trust?”, that you have probably never watched. We all read the articles about young people bouncing from job to job and not being loyal. I wonder why. I got an email from a young person today. In...
Jan 21, 2016 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips |
I remember being in elementary school in downtown Toronto and my teachers would do a history lesson about how many people in the Middle Ages or before thought the world was flat. Many countries believed that their navy could fall off the end of the world. How could...
Aug 26, 2014 | Best Way to Get a Job, Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Finding a Job, Fired, Hank Blank |
I love PR speak. I am an advertising guy. I have helped promote jargon and word speak. I started my career aspiring to be an Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man. When corporate America fires people their PR machines fire up the corporate jargon of today. We have all...
Apr 6, 2014 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips |
A young friend shared with me the other day that they had recently been promoted. Congrats I said. I shared her story with another friend and she asked me a simple question that made me reflect for a bit. “Does she have anyone to supervise?” Probably not I thought. ...
Apr 1, 2014 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips, Hank Blank |
I got a couple of emails recently. Both had graduated from the same school decades apart. One introduced to me a young man who had recently graduated and was looking for a job. A solid networking strategy is to reach out to your Alumni. I went to the University of...
Dec 21, 2012 | Career, Career Advice, Millennials, Networking |
The other day, I received an e-mail from a friend of mine. I asked him if he knew somebody I wanted to get in touch with. His response was that, although they used to work together, she isn’t a great networker. She accepted his LinkedIn invite, but has been...
Oct 20, 2012 | Best Way to Get a Job, Career, Career Advice, Finding a Job, Graduates, Jobs, Millennials |
I had a great time recently speaking to the students at CBU Graphic Design class on How to Rise Above the Crowd. My presentation was about how to transition learning into a career. My expertise comes from my experience as a person who has to create a job each and...
