Of the 1.3 million US college graduates in 2007, more than 50% became professional sales people.1 That same year the total number of graduates from US med schools was 16,000.2
I can see how some might find this statistic shocking. Particularly those who feel that sales is beneath them.
Make no mistake, even though most sales people do not [...]
Because I’m still reading through the hate mail that I received after posting Are You Getting the Itch to Switch (jobs) on brazencareerist’s blog: http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/09/08/are-you-getting-the-itch-to-switch-jobs I thought it would be a good idea to set the record straight about my philosophy about job hopping.
Lets start by defining what it isn’t.
Job hopping is not a sport. [...]
Being that my first language is Spanish and that I’ve developed my career in the English-speaking world, at work meetings and functions, more often than not, I get asked about my foreign accent. Quite frankly, the ‘..and where are you from?’ line (or similar version) got old about 10 years ago. To stop myself from [...]
Shot by Adrian Alston
At the risk of my readers suspecting that I own shares of Buddha Corp. (BCOR) I’ve decided to indulge my need to write yet another post about the benefits of meditation.
In an earlier post: Go Fetch! I only mentioned in passing that while sharpening my meditation skills at a Buddhist monastery, I [...]
Mistakophobia, an intense fear of making mistakes, is up there with career -suicide as one of the killers of career growth.
The afflicted mistakophobes are so afraid of making mistakes that they never leave their comfort zone. Going about their work-lives feeling comfortably numb, because they seldom make mistakes, they miss out on all kinds of [...]
Contrary to what most would think, that the reason I went away for 3 days to meditate and observe Noble Silence* at a Buddhist monastery was to take care of my spirit, my main objective was to take care of business. By learning from those who know best about meditation, my goal was to improve [...]
Employed, self-employed or unemployed, in the world of work you have one reputation – one.
Just as Apple and Mini Cooper have a brand that represents them in the public eye, your reputation is your own personal brand. Depending on how you manage it, it can either open doors for you or potentially repel opportunities.
I’m [...]
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