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...
Mar 21, 2016 | Finding a Job, Transition |
Yes you need to change your wiring and learn a new way to land a job these days. It is the New Normal. People in transition try to figure out their new life by what worked for them when they were successfully working and how they got a job in the past. If they have...
Sep 13, 2015 | Career, Finding a Job, Job Hunting, Networking |
I had a Starbucks with a stranger the other day. I asked him how he got connected to me. He said I helped one of his friends get a job at a great company. I didn’t readily recall her name but her photo on LinkedIn returned her to my memory. I never got any business...
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...
Feb 27, 2014 | Finding a Job, Job Hunting, New Normal, Personal Branding |
I got an email the other day. It came from a person I have never met but he knew me well. He said he was an avid follower of my videos on YouTube. If you want to be found today you have to be out there. Invisibility is not a great career strategy. Sadly many chose...
Nov 12, 2013 | Best Way to Get a Job, Career Tips, Finding a Job, Hank Blank, Networking |
I love people and I love to network. Every encounter leaves a life impression. I have learned that if you have big ears and a small mouth you will learn a lot. I had coffee today with somebody who I met years ago but haven’t seen for some time. They a prominent...
Jul 21, 2013 | Finding a Job, Hank Blank, Networking, New Normal |
The New Normal was created in the fall of 2008 when the global financial crisis took place. I was in Argentina which had its melt down a few years earlier. All of a sudden my American Express card didn’t work. When the clerk gave me the card in confusion I saw that it...
Mar 3, 2013 | Agency Review Consultant, Branding, Career, Finding a Job, Graduates, Hank Blank, Job Search, Linkedin, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, New Normal |
So how are things going so far as we enter year five of the New Normal? Having a jolly old time? The New Normal was created when the world melted in the fall of 2008. Lehman Brothers went away. Remember those days? I am sure that the 2.8 million people that lost...
Nov 23, 2012 | Career, Finding a Job, Millennials, New Normal |
This is a post that I recently wrote for MENG. I am a consultant and have used paid interns for the last ten years. First my kids, then their friends and recently graduates who are looking for their first real career job but need to get some real world experience. I...
Nov 21, 2012 | Finding a Job, Fired, Hank Blank, Job Hunting Tips, Job Search, Networking, New Normal |
I am one of the Founders of Laguna Niguel Connectors. I remember the original touch point as if was today but I could be all wrong. It was in the summer of 2008. Somebody introduced me to Randy Miller and we had a Starbucks in my hood called Laguna Niguel....
