These tips from Men’s Health aren’t just for the boys, everyone can learn from these tips on how to stand out among coworkers. I want to hear from you! Do you have any tips of your own, or experiences you can share about how you moved up in a company?
Check out this list of the top 25 jobs in 201 by U.S. News: http://bit.ly/UNPTLs. What other jobs do you think could or should make the list? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
UT San Diego recently asked me the question “Has NAFTA, on balance, delivered more positives than negatives economically to San Diego and Tijuana?”
I say yes. It has been a model for the US, Canada, our second largest trading partner and Mexico, our third, to work together cooperatively using each country’s strengths. In this very competitive world trade market companies have to have the flexibility to get products and talents wherever they can most cost effectively find them. In order to keep our economy functioning effectively we need to try new trade policies and agreements and keep current with the way the world really works. NAFTA should be declared a big success and now we need to move forward lowering as many barriers to trade as we possibly can.
Check out the rest of the article: UT San Diego
The message here is to focus on the positive. Emphasize the good and do whatever you can to promote, perpetuate and accentuate a forward-thinking, optimistic frame of mind. You may very well become one of those people who, at the end of their job search, declares that “getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me.” Without that shove out the door, they might have fossilized in the same boring job for years, maybe forever.
Instead, they discovered a new job or career they could be passionate about, that motivated and inspired them. They stepped out of their comfort zone and into an exciting new life. You don’t have to be fired to be motivated to find a new job or a new career. Stop right now and think about whether you are happy in your current position. If you are, terrific! Know that you are in a minority of employed people. But perhaps things could be even better. It’s always easier to find a job when you have a job. A job search when you are employed means you are the master of your fate. You are being proactive. HR folks like me love that! We love enticing an employed person to leave their current job and join our company. We are very competitive too. We enjoy the sense of victory when we hire a great new employee.
When you are looking for work after being laid off there’s always that lingering cloud that you are damaged merchandise—no matter how unfair or untrue it may be. HR folks naturally wonder why your former employer let you go and not someone else? Why were you not the last one standing? Why should they take a chance? Not to fear. There are great ways to respond to these questions, ways to assuage us paranoid HR folks.
Before you head out on that first job interview, it is critical to prepare. What follows is a simple process that entails taking a series of concrete actions. Some are easy; some are not. Some are simple; some are more complicated. Some may ask only questions requiring impulsive responses with little thought, while some demand that you be introspective, thoughtful and perhaps do a bit of soul-searching.
I was doing some reading this morning and I came across an article about Co-Founder of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey. It talked about some of the Do’s and Don’ts Dorsey said were things he does and have aided in his success. Some of them I really liked:
Do:
Don’t:
Just some things that we can try to practice day to day. Do you have any habits/rituals/practices that you do on a daily basis that you feel fuels your success? Let me know in the comments!
I’ve gotta’ say, Fast Company has been putting out some good articles. It’s true, many of us these days are swamped. Eating at our desks allows us to keep working meanwhile getting the nutrition we need to power through the day, right? Not always.
Being stuck to our screens can be what is really draining us. Get up, get moving and try to avoid eating at your desk when you can. I loved this quote from the article:
“For the record, the insanely prolific (and possibly just insane) philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would take a two-hour walk before lunch every day, writing ideas in his notebook when they came. So we can at least go for a walk down the hall.”
