Archives for November 2013

It’s Thanksgiving week already. Hopefully you have time to sit down with a good movie after the tryptophan kicks in. If you do, here are a few of my favorite movies for career inspiration. Pirates of the Caribbean, the first one. It’s all about the point where the British stop calling him the worst pirate …

Career reading doesn’t always have to be nonfiction. Settle back with some good literary fiction to improve your career, because research shows you’ll do better on interviews with a little Alice Munro. Loved this piece about which novel to read before your interview! Know your Myers-Briggs type? Match yourself to the lead character in literature with this …

So you’re sitting at your desk, wondering if this is all there is. You’ve been at your job for a few years and it’s lost its novelty. Or you thought you were majoring in the right subject, but now you’re not so sure. Sometimes we treat passion for our work as a resource that slowly …

Any career change, job hunt, or career decision requires one thing: persistence. Persistence in the face of rejection from your top choice of employer, from the one person you think could help you decide between consulting and art school, from the professor you thought would write you a recommendation. It’s tough to keep going. Rejection …