Sometimes follow your passion is crappy advice

I just read another article talking about how important it is to love what you do.  Follow your passion it says.  I am not saying that getting paid for doing what you love is not awesome, it is.  But guess what, most people do not have that luxury and telling people...

How to be a good employee

There are few employees who wake up in the morning with the thought “I can’t wait to get to work and make everyone miserable!” Whether this it true or not, I believe it to be true, and believing that makes my life A LOT easier.  Sure, there are those...

3 career skills everyone needs to be successful

In an episode of Question Of the Day James Altucher talks about the three money skills everyone needs to have; getting money, keeping money, and growing money.  It hit me, the same is true in our career.  There are three basic skills that you must have if you want to...

You don’t have to be perfect in you job search

Perfect is the enemy of good I have heard this periodically throughout my life but unfortunately it is not usually taught by parents or schools but rather by life.  Some things in life you want to do perfectly but most times good is good enough. Take your resume for...

The Can and the Want of the Job Interview

There are two things I want to learn about a candidate from a job interview… The Want I want to know why you WANT to work for us.  This may sound stupid but I get a lot of people applying that don’t actually WANT the position.  Yes, I am serious.  Oh, they...