AGREE: Being “included” is not all that it’s cracked up to be, @velveteenmind
AGREE: There is a difference between spending time around your spouse and spending time with your spouse, @mckinneyos
AGREE: Failure leads to the next reinvention—as long as you understand what’s happening to you, @psychtoday
AGREE: The position of social media specialist… has become the hottest new corporate job, @nytimes
“What did you do today?”
I cried like a druggie in rehab pleading with God and my dead father to help me. Also, I slept. Tried to sleep. To ignore. To escape. Between sleeping and crying, I tried to be normal.
“Nothing much, I ran some errands,” I replied on a Saturday night out at the bar, trying to be normal. Going out with friends for the first time in a long time. Friends that were good enough to forget that I ignored them for the past eight months. Because that’s what happens when I’m in a relationship.
I changed my design blog, modite / character, to be my personal blog. That’s all I really wanted to do anyway.
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AGREE: Clearly, resumes aren’t the sole factor in the recruitment process anymore. The new way to look at a job search is a “people search,” @danschawbel
AGREE: It is very notable that the majority of these top female entrepreneurs are bloggers and in fact some of the top bloggers in the world, @michaeldunlop
AGREE: I sometimes think that HR people are the least qualified to give career advice, via @lruettimann (see comments)
Catching up…
AGREE: The world needs more female bosses, @financialpost
AGREE: You have a good thing. Then it turns into a rut. Then you go through a transition. Then you find another good thing. Lifehacker was a great thing. Then it turned into a bit of a rut, @ginatrapani
AGREE: We learned that a product doesn’t sell just because you’re trying to do good in the world, @IncMagazine
AGREE: Conservatives lack a sense of humor, @psychtoday
AGREE: There is a growing conversation about whether or not Design can replace Liberal Arts as the intellectual foundation, Business Week via @rubyku
DISAGREE: We don’t think that the Kindle DX will be a major game-changer, @rww
I like motivational talks. Like this one from Gary Vaynerchuk. I get all excited and pumped and ready to work.
Then I get stuck. Interminably stuck. Because I’m really excited and pumped to work, but for what? I’m a lucky person, but I wonder is this it? Really? Because I thought there might be more.
Marcus Buckingham of the Wall Street Journal gets it. “This is a deeply anxious and insecure generation,” he argues. “On the surface they look self-confident, [but] deep down they know that they don’t actually know what it takes to win.”
Apparently it’s going to take a decade of wandering for us to figure it out.
A lot of bloggers are more proficient in words than in person, so it’s not surprising that many haven’t taken the leap to video blogging. But they should. Video posts provide a great, unique way to connect with your readership. I’m still learning, but here are six tips that helped me get started:
1. Watch a lot of videos.
Write down what you find appealing and what you don’t like. I tend to like short videos with lots of personality. Pay attention to the video content, length, and the format.
Check out these places to start: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine, Marketing), Ill Doctrine (Hip-Hop, Political), Startup Lucky (Entrepreneurship), Design for Mankind’s Dialogue (Art/Design), Momversation (Lifestyle & Mom Blogging), Brazen Careerist (Contest Announcements), Sam Davidson (Social Change & Motivation), and Shama TV (New Media Marketing).
Qvisory reports that nearly one in five young adults are unemployed or looking for work, and Harvard’s Jeff Frankel says the recession crisis is now tied for longest since the depression.
No worries though. Optimism is strangely abundant. “There is a newly forming society of people who are making the best of being laid off,” the Boston Globe reports.
So if you’re being a curmudgeon, stop it. The recession is a great time to advance your career. It’s a myth that there aren’t any jobs. Here are three places to discover your next position:
