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Millennials in the Workplace: Your Solution

by Jason Seiden

Chris Ferdinandi recently wrote about why you shouldn’t care about a multigenerational workforce. And technically, he’s right.
Yet, there is clearly a problem, and it certainly seems generational in nature. Just within the last week, I have heard about:

A Gen Y job seeker who became angry at his brother’s girlfriend because she wouldn’t give him the [...]

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Join the conversation on resilience, have fun at SHRM

by Jason Seiden

How have you made yourself resilient at work?

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Ethics, social media, and… profersonalism.

June 27, 2009

Business is always personal. Your job is your livelihood… that’s pretty darn personal, methinks. Yet, it is also professional. You do need to be able to assess situations free of emotion in order to figure out the best way forward! So, it’s both… it’s always both. Always professional, always personal. Always… profersonal.

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How have you made yourself resilient?

June 26, 2009

What do you see as the key to resilience? (An open question to readers)

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Action drives results: after the post, the social proof showed up in my inbox

June 23, 2009

I thought I’d do a quick follow up on my post about taking action with a real-life success story about how the process actually works.
This comes from an email that I got last Friday morning. I picked it up while waiting for a connecting flight at LAX, and immediately called the person who sent it. [...]

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Corporate rookies: As the economy turns around, press your advantage

June 22, 2009

Huh? Jase, What advantage are you talking about?!
I’ll tell you. As news of an economic recovery starts to trickle in here and there, corporate rookies should be licking their chops. Everyone else should be on edge. Especially people in Michigan, Oregon, and South Carolina, where the economic downturn is hitting particularly hard. (As if they [...]

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Office hook-ups: what you need to know (and what people don’t like to talk about)

June 22, 2009

Summer’s here… a time for visible tattoos, bathing suits, and outdoor alcohol consumption. Under normal conditions, we know these to be the ingredients for that popular dish, The Summer Fling. But add in a tension-filled (read: romance-free) economy, and don’t be surprised if people find even a brief courtship too filling. And that’s OK; people [...]

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Do This 1 Thing and I Guarantee—Yes, Guarantee—You Will Get a Job

June 17, 2009

When it comes to the job search, everyone’s with the lists: how to get a job; mistakes people make; ways to ace an interview; things you need to do today.
Enough.
There is a problem with all these lists. The problem is not that there’s not some good insights in some of them. It’s that no list [...]

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Humility will kill your career, but it won’t kill mine.

June 15, 2009

Sure, Jim Collins tells us that humble leaders do the greatest things. But a quick look around confirms that we prefer self-promoters. It takes me exactly 6 sentences to lay out both how and why humility will kill your career here (p. 52). Now, scientists have confirmed it, too.
(Welcome to the party, boys.)
Of course, put [...]

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Super Staying Power: Career Resilience, meet Running

June 12, 2009

If you run, I want you to do something: I want you to add a little distance to your route. A quarter mile, a half mile, two miles. Something. And when you run it, I want you to remember the extra distance we all need to go right now. It’s tough, it hurts, and as much as you may want to, you can’t quit.

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