Did you ever watch Gorillas in the Mist? It’s based on the story of Dian Fossey and how she learned to behave like mountain gorillas (in the Congo and in Rwanda), in order to be accepted enough to live with them and study them. Although Fossey was renamed in How I Met Your Mother, Marshall […]
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Winning your Break Up
I was listening to a program on the radio today which sent me to Forbes.com. A woman, Fancy Frenchwood, published her letter of resignation in all of it’s emotional honesty and glory. Later this evening, I was watching an episode of How I Met Your Mother about who won the relationship break up. Was it […]
Managing Expectations During The Interview Phase
Applying, networking, interviewing and then receiving the final word can cause a lot of emotional ups and downs. So how do I manage my personal expectations and keep fairly calm when going through so many at once? I don’t. But I have tricks that help with some of the calm (massages not included). Although I’m […]
Why I like TED
TED.com (and Coursera.org) are two very distinct reasons why I like technology. Sure I’m hammering away on the keyboard of this Macbook Pro and looking at my iPhone at a text message, but they seem like a way of life and an extension of me. I take them for granted. But I do not take […]
Makers
Earlier I was talking about rebranding feminism and I think it’s finally right in front of me. M A K E R S – Women who make America – on the PBS site. MAKERS: Women Who Make America tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to […]
Why we buy new versus used
Apparently I now give advice to my physician (mostly about what to read in People magazine when I’m in the doc’s office). And also to the administrator at the front desk (about buying used versus new). It started with a bunny in a basket at Costco. The administrator was telling me that she was thinking […]
Interview Myth-buster – Passive vs Active Candidate
Back in the day – which means precisely 17 years ago, I didn’t want to have to interview without a current job. In an ideal situation, I was a “passive candidate” to a recruiter if I were gainfully employed (and looking to cheat on an employer during interviews, or later file for divorce from the […]
Appetite for Success
Do you have an appetite for corporate or entrepreneurial success? According to a professor at University of Maryland, less than 5% of americans engage in entrepreneurship due to risk and fear of failure. Yet key motivators (no surprise) are money, freedom and control. One main point he makes is to assess the “opportunity cost” – […]
Can you ask for Part time in an Interview?
Remember the movie Bridget Jones? That quirky 30-something singleton who was desperate to meet a man and find happiness at work? According to actress Renee Zellweger when asked about playing the role: Obviously I related to the female aspect [of the character], her day-to-day regimen and fight against Mother Nature… I understood her search for self-acceptance […]
The Funk I’m In
Earlier I blogged about how not to let unemployment get you down when you have no “company identity“. But I didn’t address how the almighty dollar can really impact your identity and self-confidence. It can cut right to the core when one is faced with a depleting bank account that used to replenish every two […]
