It is critical that you leave a good impression when leaving a job. With social media today, you will encounter the people with whom you’ve worked again in the future– either directly or indirectly. Here are 8 important tips to keep in mind when you are preparing to leave your current job.
How to Leave your Job: 8 Tips for a Successful Departure
Posted in Career Transition, Organizational Intelligence
Tagged Business and Economy, Employment
LinkedIn Maps to Visualize Your Network
LinkedIn Maps is a tool for visualizing your professional network. It takes only a few minutes and reveals clusters, gaps and connectors in your network. Here is mine:
Posted in Career-ology, Leadership, Networking
Tagged Business, LinkedIn, Professional, Professional network service, social media, Social network
Yahoo CEO “Resume Malfunction”
By now, the news regarding Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) CEO’s, Scott Thompson, “resume malfunction” is old news, but the lesson is omnipresent. Padding a resume is wrong and it is just not worth it. . . ever.
What struck me the most about Thompson’s response in this CNNMoney’s article was that he was sorry for the effects of his lie, but not the lie itself. Everyone involved will take a hit here including Thompson, Yahoo employees and it shareholders and the Board of Directors. What will be the long-term leadership implications for Yahoo? Only time will tell.
Read Kara Swisher’s All Things D post about Patti Hart, the Yahoo director in charge of the search that resulted in the hiring of Scott Thompson as its CEO.
Posted in Career-ology, Leadership, Management
The Power of LinkedIn
LinkedIn is one of the most popular and powerful social media websites of our time. I would argue that it is one of the most powerful business tools ever invented. I say this because I believe that people with whom you interact are the single most important factor in your career.
Let me be more specific, it is the relationships you have with the people around you—your colleagues, managers, customers and clients– that determine your professional success. And LinkedIn is the most powerful tool for helping you manage and grow your professional relationships.
All social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Myspace and Twitter and are Continue reading
Posted in Networking
Godin Makes the Case for “Career-ology”
In his article, “If You’re An Average Worker, You’re Going Straight To The Bottom,” Seth Godin makes the case for being proactive about your career and professional development which is what Career-ology is all about!
. . . if you’re different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more, Godin says.
Instead of waiting around for someone to tell you that you matter, take your career into your own hands. In other words, don’t wait for someone else to pick you and pick yourself! If you have a book, you don’t need a publisher to approve you, you can publish it yourself. It’s no longer about waiting for some big corporation to choose you. We’ve arrived at an age where you choose yourself.
Thanks again for the wise words, Seth.
How I Emptied My Email Inbox?
In the first part of the this blog post, I discussed the very real and growing problems that are a result pf the increasing volume of email. In this post, I will tell outline the simple process that I use to empty my email box each week.
The important thing to remember is that there is not one method that will work for everyone. The way you use email for your work is a function of many things including your job function, your colleagues, your managers and customers or clients, therefore, the solution for emptying your email box on a regular basis will vary.
This is how I approach the task. Continue reading
Posted in Career-ology, Effectiveness, Management, Practices & Habits
Tagged Email, Email client, Time management, Twitter
Why I Emptied my Email Inbox?
For 2012, I resolved to keep my email inbox empty. You might ask, “Why would anyone consider taking on such a challenge?”
The reason is simple: I feel like I have been losing the battle with my email . . . and it doesn’t seem to be getting better and there is data to support this uneasy feeling. According to The Radicati Group’s Survey: Corporate Email, 2011-2012:
The number of emails sent per day continues to increase, despite growing use of social networking and instant messaging. In 2010 users were receiving an average of 72 emails per day, and sending an average of 33 emails per day.
The data is alarming, but what is more concerning is Continue reading
