Interview Skills

The Power of Storytelling and 3 Ways to Accelerate Your Job Search

From our earliest years, we have been conditioned to respond positively to stories. As parents, we start reading stories to our children...

Deer Hunting Season, An Empty Sales Office, and Leveraging Company Culture to Win Your Job Search

Many years ago, I was a newly minted sales manager running a Xerox corporate sales team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sales target in hand, I...

The 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...

Teddy 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...