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 27, 20192 minThanksgiving. Find a Way to Add “Thanks” to Your Job Search.I love Thanksgiving. Hands down my favorite holiday of the year. For me, it always seems like the work world slows down and fades into th...
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 TroupNov 5, 20196 minI Wish I Had More Hair. And 4 Things That You Can Actually Change to Improve Your Job Search.When I was young, my father used to repeat a saying every time I would wish for something that simply was not going to happen. He would s...
Dan TroupSep 18, 20196 minDecisions, Decisions, Decisions. Which LinkedIn Subscription Plan is Right for Your Job Search?I have a confession to make. For me, any major purchase decision I make takes weeks if not months. It’s not that I am reluctant to part w...
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 TroupAug 28, 20194 minNetworking, Friendship, the Lasting Value of Customer Service and a Story that Begins on 9/11If you are over the age of 25, you likely remember exactly where you were and what you were doing on the morning of September 11th, 2001....
Dan TroupAug 20, 20194 minJerry Maguire, Tom Cruise, Mission Statements and the Problem with Exploratory InterviewsOne of my all-time favorite movies is Jerry Maguire featuring Tom Cruise and Renee Zellweger. The movie opens with a pivotal scene where ...
Dan TroupAug 13, 20194 minJob Search Technology in 2019. Blessing or Curse?Back before the dawn of time, before Al Gore invented the Internet and we buried our heads in our phones, there was no such thing as job ...
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 TroupJun 18, 20193 minNeil Armstrong. Apollo 11. The Power of Networking. And My Father.With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing coming up next month and Father’s Day this past weekend, I wanted to share a stor...
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 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 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 26, 20194 minThe Wizard of Oz and Two Phrases to Eliminate from Your LinkedIn ProfileOne of the first movies I ever watched and fell in love with was the Wizard of Oz. Trust me. My interest was not in the possible deeper m...
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 ...
