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5 steps to acclerate your personal career growth curve

When I started at EDS I was learning at an incredible rate.  Pay raises came quickly and easily.  By my third year things slowed down.  By my fifth year I settled into a dreary cycle of little new personal growth and cost of living raises. I managed to get assigned to a new team using [...]

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Your New Career Is Only 3 or 4 Steps Away

If you want to do something else, look for someone who can help you achieve that dream. You may first have to hitch your career to a place that will help you pay for the school education you need. The time will come when you are too constricted there. You will have the school education. Next you need

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Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. (Toffler)

Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn

I love talk radio, but it doesn’t lift my spirits. It gets me perturbed. Music on the radio doesn’t engage my mind as I drive. I listen

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How to survive long unemployment

Do you give up too quickly?  Can you get a job at a comparable wage to the one you had?

Sometimes you just have to accept a lower wage to get a job.  Too often people fail to demand enough of themselves. A WSJ article stated.

A key part of earnings losses, Mr. von Wachter and his [...]

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inferiority vs superiority

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (E. Roosevelt)

Kids always made fun of the way I dressed.  I had two shirts and two pairs of jeans for the whole school year.  That’s all.  I had cheap shoes.  For dinner our family had beans every night, literally.  We drank powdered milk.  [...]

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Motivating Recruiters

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score.  The real excitement is playing the game.  (Trump)

Many recruiting offices have a button that rings a bell.  You can only push the button when you make a placement.  Some recruiters live only to press that button.  When they do [...]

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A coward’s networking secrets

The replay is available at www.dilts.us/seminars/

The other webinars I gave yesterday are also available.

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Classes today and next Tuesday

Next Tuesday I will be doing resume makeovers for a few people live.  It will be a brutal but very instructive process.  If you want to be one of the resume remake recipients, send me a copy of your resume.  We’ll talk if you are going to have it done for you.

On the second Tuesday of each month [...]

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I want to be a fireman when I grow up. What about you?

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.  (Aristotle)

I went to a Boy Scout camp where a fire company put on a rescue demonstration.  They had 3 cars.  One by one they ripped them apart using hydraulic tools.  Right then I decided that I want to be a fireman when I grow up.  I [...]

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3 classes tomorrow at no cost

The classes are not about finding a job.  They are about coaching, management, and sales.  They may be useful anyway.

February 9th, 2010 we will present these three classes:

1.  Coaching For Performance
2.  Coaching Significant Sales Improvement
3.  Beloved Ways To Kill Sales

These are full keynote classes we give at corporate retreats.

Classes available for:

   Sales
   Hiring
   Sales Management
   [...]

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