Career

Building Your Career Foundation

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We all have foundations in our careers; those skills that let us earn money, the network that finds us a job, the specific knowledges that let us predict trends.  A quick examination of what you do, who you are, and the work you do will quickly make your foundation obvious (or its lack obvious).

Building our career foundation – skills, knowledge, experience, networks – is vital to having a successful life, a fulfilling job, and to achieving what we want to do in life.  However building them is often hard in these changing times.

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Careers, Communications, and Getting People Off Of Your Back

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You're doing a job search or career change (or both), and you're working hard at it.  You may be sending out resumes like crazy, or networking, or going to class, or all of these and more.  You're doing a lot to advance your career, and you know it.

Unfortunately it seems other people don't know it, and they won't get off your back.  They want to know what you're doing in your job search, they want to know how you're doing, they want to know whats up.  You may feel you spend more time being bothered by friends, family, and so on than you do interviewing or studying.

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Frustration Friday: Work, Value, and Lies

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In these tough economic times, I often hear debates on "productivity" and who is really "doing all the work."  The usual answer of course is whoever is discussing productivity is the person that thinks they're doing all the work.  This also includes assorted delusions about economics, career, jobs, and so forth.

So, let me set a few things straight on productivity from my rather jaded point of view.

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