Category Archives: strategic job hopping

Una piedra dentro del zapato.

Es de esperarse.  Habrá cosas en tu trabajo que se sentirán tan incomodas como caminar con una piedra dentro del zapato.
No es cuestión de crearte prejuicios. Es cuestión de estadísticas. Estadísticamente no es posible que te guste el 100% de tu trabajo – el 100% del tiempo.  Es inevitable que hay cosas – por muy [...]

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rEvolución

Curioso como la palabra revolución esta compuesta en gran parte por la palabra evolución, ¿verdad?
La evolución, lejos de ser destructiva – como se tiende a percibir las revoluciones – es desarrollo gradual, crecimiento o mejoría.
Y ¿que conlleva a la evolución en tu vida laboral?
Los cambios.  Poco revolucionario, ¿verdad?
Es decir, hacer lo mismo día tras día, [...]

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Así es – y eso esta muy bien.

Es así.  Unos nacemos con unas habilidades, mientras otros nacen con otras.
Mira a tu alrededor y observa como ningún ser humano hace todo a la perfección.  Si no me crees acuérdate cuando Michael “Air” Jordan intento jugar béisbol.  Rápidamente se dio cuenta que por mas horas que practicara, jamás lograría ser tan bueno como lo [...]

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Power(ful) comes in all sizes

Think David and Goliath.  As little scientific evidence as there is to prove that this episode really took place, one thing is true: small can be powerful.  That’s because power is not about size – it’s about positioning.
 Now think tennis.  The amount of power that a player exerts on a shot is not dependent on [...]

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Who has time to stand still?

18 to 30 year olds, take note – and then action.
Brazen Careerist (BC) has evolved to position itself as the #1 site for career management among Generation Y…you know who you are.
Watch this to get a better idea of what the new and evolved BC is about.

 
As one of the founders, Ryan Paugh, shared with [...]

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Who’s on your panel?

It’s well-known that companies – public and private, for profit, nonprofits and not-just-for profits – all go to great lengths to put together a panel of advisors. Although some have advisers on a more formal basis than others,  the common theme is that businesses rely on the advice of those they believe are in the [...]

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Why would I hire you?

At the risk of covering a topic that has been done to death, I feel compelled to share with you a few of the lessons I gained after spending the past week interviewing candidates for a sales job. 
Here’s what I look for in candidates – to make sure that I’m surrounded by excellence and by [...]

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13 and counting…

Today, to celebrate my blog’s first anniversary,  I’m writing my 100th post.  It’s about my 13th job. 
That I’m up to job 13 means that I continue to stay faithful to my self-proclamation – as a strategic job hopper. 
I am now working as the commercial director at an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of medical supplies.
That said, [...]

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A New Kind of Hero for a New Kind of World, Hero #12

(This post is part of a pact I made. Click here for the full story.) 
Meet Rebecca.   Google her name and you will quickly learn that she’s a fellow strategic job hopper.  (long live!)
Her career started with a job in environmental consulting after she graduated from college with a BA in Interior Design and Environmental Studies. Then she [...]

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Cut the (umbilical) cord

 (Or the birth of  brand YOU)
A few months ago Dan Schawbel (personal branding guru and author of Me 2.0) asked me if I wanted to contribute to his e-mag: Personal Branding.  He offered me the option to either edit or write a column.  I chose to write – and accepted to write The Brand Assessment column.  [...]

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