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January 03, 2005
Career Tips
These tips are from Marty Nemko at Bankrate.com:
1. Act like a star at work.
2. Talk more crisply, listen more intently.
3. Follow the World's Shortest Management Course. Create a vision, inspire your supervisees to achieve that vision, don't micromanage, fire the bad quickly and take the time to hire great employees.
4. Get your job description changed to suit your strengths.
5. Request a special project that you'd find fun, would impress your boss and the results of which would be visible to many employees.
6. Forgo State U for You U. (Create your own mentor-based system of learning new skills rather than wasting time and money getting another degree.)
7. Job seekers, use the one-week job search.
8. Procrastinator, overcome that career killer with this three-step method: (a)Be aware of the moment of truth (b)Start with one-second tasks and (c)Only deal with stumbling blocks for one minute.
9. Remember the serenity prayer
10. Remember Nemko's father's story. (Holocaust survivor who refuses to give another minute to the Nazis; personal motto is "Never look back; always look forward.")
Posted by cj at January 3, 2005 11:15 AM