Career 03 (Apr 12 - Jul 19)

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Is that new job offer that great? Think it over before quitting

by Lisa Brown

Source: CNBC

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/08/is-that- ... yourwealth

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Trend #3: Employee-free Society

By James Altucher

Before 200 years ago, we never really had employees. Then there was the rise of corporatism, which many confused with capitalism.

I’m on the board of a $1-billion-in-revenue employment agency. It’s gone from $200 million in revenues to $1 billion just in the past few years. Why did we move up so fast when the economy has basically been flat?

For two reasons:

1. The Pareto principle, which says that 80% of the work is being done by 20% of the people. So a lot of people are being fired now, since 2009 gave everyone the carte blanche excuse.

2. Regulations that are too difficult to follow. It’s getting pretty difficult to figure out what you need to do with an employee. Health care is a great example, but there are 1,000 other examples.

So what’s happening, for better or worse, is a rising wave of solo-preneurs and lifestyle entrepreneurs — exactly what happened for the hundreds of years that capitalism was around before stiff and rigid corporatism (teamed with unions) became the primary but fake “stable” force in our lives.

This is why companies like Uber are flourishing. You have a workforce (the drivers), logistics software in the middle, and people willing to pay for that workforce. Our GDP and our startups are going to start to drift in the Uber direction. Uber in San Francisco last month did three times as many rides as all the cab drivers in SF combined.

Corporate life was never really stable, and now we know that.

The problem is: while we were all in our cubicles (and I’ve been guilty of this for many years as well), we stopped being creative, stopped having ideas, and just took orders from the gatekeepers: bosses, colleagues, government, education, family.

We let other people choose what was best for us instead of doing the choosing ourselves. If you let someone else do the choosing for you, the results won’t be good, and you’ll get resentful. Bad things will happen.

I don’t have a direct stock tip on this. This is not about stocks. It’s about taking an approach where you get your life back so you can have wealth and abundance over the next 50 years.

Source: ETR

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4 Interview Questions You Should Be Asking

By Lloyd Fickett

This is how we hire for team players.
Start with asking questions that bring forward how they tend to work and relate with others. Here are some examples:

1. Tell me about a situation where you had a significant difficulty or misunderstanding with someone you worked with. How did you address and resolve that difficulty or misunderstanding? (Note: if they say they’ve never had difficulty or a misunderstanding, that would be a red flag for us.)

2. Tell me about a time when you supported a fellow employee to succeed in an area where they were having difficulty.

3. Give me an example of when someone provided you with support or coaching that played a key role in your success.

4. Tell me about a time when you spoke up in a challenging or uncomfortable situation.

As your interview candidate shares their examples, notice if the tendency is towards addressing issues or avoiding them. Do they take responsibility for the situation, or do they seem to explain it away or blame others for what is going on?

Asking these questions can give you a feeling for someone’s natural level of openness, awareness, and honesty. It can give you a sense of whether they are interested in their own growth, and whether or not you would want to invest in supporting their development.

Source: The Collaborative Way

http://goop.com/working-the-collaborati ... usinesses/

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Vivian Lee: Trust in Your Own Leadership Style

By ADAM BRYANT

What is your best career and life advice for new college grads?

Just live in the moment. Pour your heart into whatever it is you’re doing and get the most out of that experience. I think people are often so worried about the next step, and the next step after that, that they’re not focused on where they are now.

Whatever your environment is, know that you can really extract a lot of value out of it. The people who are most successful draw on all their life experiences, and those experiences inform everything they do.

Source: Corner Office

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/busin ... .html?_r=0

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"You should get out of bed looking forward to what you are going to do that day.

Find ways to take joy in your work.

If you can’t, look for another job."

— Craig Ballantyne

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A career expert says this is one of the biggest résumé mistakes young people make

by Áine Cain

"Quit trying to fit in. Quit trying to be a version of someone else. Really look inward to identify what drives you and what makes you unique — and amplify that.

We don't need another carbon copy of someone else. We need you. The world really, really needs that right now.

Source: Business Insider


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/career-ex ... 00285.html

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4 Ways to Cope With Long-Term Unemployment

By Ashley Eneriz

Source: Investopedia

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/ma ... z4FanoGxTf

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Morgan Stanley has this career advice for 2016 interns

Wall Street takes another step away from harsh reputation

Source: Market Watch

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/morgan ... yptr=yahoo

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How to Be a Boss -- Better Than Your Boss

Source: U.S.News & World Report

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/boss-bett ... 47704.html