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Yippee! We've Hit Rock Bottom
Tweet Share on Facebook May 5, 2009 Comment (1)Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today that the economy seems to be bottoming. Evidently, there are several "tentative signs" of hope. No question, this is good news after months of bad.
But I am reminded of the New Yorker cartoon that shows a little boy just home from his T-ball game, carrying a huge trophy and announcing, “We Lost!!”
Nearly 9 percent of us are out of work. Every one of us can imagine how we would feel if we lost our own job. There is a sense of loss--grief even--akin to losing a family member or a divorce, experts say. At best, the out-of-work person is frustrated, maybe even angry. At worst, he or she is demoralized, with self-confidence and self-worth permanently affected.
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What It's Like to Make a Job Offer
Tweet Share on Facebook May 4, 2009 Comment (3)I love making job offers. It's a great feeling to call someone up and offer them a job that you know they really want.
There are several different types of reactions when you make someone a job offer:
1. The excited freak-out. I love this one. This is when you call and offer someone a job and they do any or all of the following: Scream with excitement, repeat "oh my god, oh my god" several times, and/or tell you when they hang up that they're going to go call all their friends. This is my favorite. I hang up as excited as they are. It's an awesome feeling.
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Don't Depend on a Miracle
Tweet Share on Facebook May 1, 2009 Comment (2)Miracles do happen. The young woman with a dream of acting is preparing milkshakes and bantering with customers in a Hollywood drugstore when a film director walks in and … you know the rest. The hidden genius with a briefcase full of ideas catches a key executive at just the right moment. Fletcher can’t make the meeting in New York so Barnes is sent, wows the company founder, and snares a special post at company headquarters.
It’s all right to believe in these moments of good fortune, but a huge mistake to rely upon them. The fact is there are legions of brilliant people whose merit is not automatically (or magically) recognized. That line about the world beating a path to your door if you build a better mousetrap never was true. If you want others to discover your talent, you have to make yourself easily discoverable.
So what can you do?
