Dan TroupFeb 125 minDeer Hunting Season, An Empty Sales Office, and Leveraging Company Culture to Win Your Job SearchMany years ago, I was a newly minted sales manager running a Xerox corporate sales team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sales target in hand, I w...
Dan TroupJan 236 minThe World Does Not Owe You a Job. Why You Need to Develop a Job Search Plan.Decades before mixed martial arts (MMA) popularity swept across the land, there was professional boxing. In the early 1900s, boxing was o...
Dan TroupNov 19, 20195 minTeddy Roosevelt, Night at the Museum, and Mastering the Hard Stuff in Your Job Search Note to the reader: This article uses the term "manhood" in reference to historical quotes. I take the non-gender view of the term and be...
Dan TroupNov 12, 20195 minHouston, We Have a Problem. The Hook Statement and Three Ways to Improve Your Job Search. Earlier in my career, I worked in sales for an enterprise software company. We began every fiscal year with a sales kickoff meeting desig...
Dan TroupOct 2, 20194 minFear of Heights and Four Excuses to Eliminate to Master the Elevator Pitch for Your Job Search “Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.” Chi-Chi Rodriguez When I was searching for famous quotes about excuses, I foun...
Dan TroupSep 25, 20195 minFirst, I Need a Resume? Seven Things to Do Before You Write Your Resume.You just lost your job in a company-wide restructure program. You aren’t satisfied with your current career and want to start looking for...
Dan TroupSep 4, 20195 minForget Tunnel Vision. Four Ways to Use Sales Rep Vision for Your Job Search.In my youth, my parents limited my television time to 1.5 hours per week. In 1966, I invested a portion of that time watching “The Time T...
Dan TroupJul 10, 20194 minThree Ways to Upgrade Your Job Search or How I Learned to Grill (a little better) This Summer.It’s summer in Upstate NY. Forget the old joke about nine months of winter and three months of bad sledding! The weather is beautiful. An...
Dan TroupMay 21, 20194 minThree Ways to Add Luck to Your Job Search and Land Your Next JobIf luck were exclusively defined by success at the poker table, then I would be one of the unluckiest individuals in the world. For many ...
Dan TroupMay 15, 20195 minHow to Structure Your Day to Find Your Next Job. A Day in the Life of a Successful Job Search. In 1967, The Beatles released their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Featured on that legendary album, was a song titled “A D...
Dan TroupMay 7, 20195 minIt Ain’t Over Till It’s Over. 4 Job Search Tips for the Over 50 Job Seeker.When you are looking for great quotes to headline a blog article, you can’t get any better than Yogi Berra. The famous NY Yankees basebal...
Dan TroupApr 30, 20195 minTwo Essential Job Search Strategies I Learned from My 94-Year-Old MotherThis past month, I visited my mother to celebrate her 94th birthday. Still living at home, with assistance, she is an amazing woman who w...
Dan TroupApr 23, 20194 minTruth in Advertising, New Monster Ads and Your Job SearchIf you are looking for this week’s article to include a list of tips and tricks to improve your job search, you are going to be disappoin...
Dan TroupApr 10, 20194 minCover Songs, Cover Letters, and Three Ways to Stand Out in Your Job SearchI love cover songs. A new recording of a previously released song by someone other than the original artist. For me, it’s the reason I lo...
Dan TroupApr 2, 20194 minThe Rule of Three (Mistakes) and Your Job SearchWhat do Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol and the Declaration of Independence have in common? Both that classic piece of literature and th...
Dan TroupMar 14, 20194 minTough Job Search? Don’t be a Turtle!It was July 3rd and the year was 1985. I was in a car with my girlfriend, engagement ring hidden safely in my pocket, racing the setting ...
Dan TroupFeb 19, 20194 minPick up the PACE in Your Job SearchIn Upstate NY, we call January and February the winter slog. These are the two winter months that you have to get through. Survive throug...
Dan TroupOct 12, 20182 minLearn from Nike. Be a Story. Tell the Story. Find the Job.As I search for current topics to use as the foundation for blog posts on my AdvantEdge Careers website, I look for stories that inspire ...
