Professional Development – Page 25

The Power of How

June 7, 2010 by Steven Savage

That dream career you have? That perfect job? That long-term plan? Tell me how you're going to get there. Give me as much detail as possible. Explain the way the different parts of your master plan work to get to the results you want.

If you know how things will happen, if you know what you have to do, if you know how the pieces of your career come together, you can make them happen. You know why things work and what is needed. You know when you take detours – and what to do (or if to continue).

Try The Drive

June 1, 2010 by Steven Savage

Many years ago, when a company in Boston was interviewing me, I got lost driving. Deliberately.

My reason was not any form of masochism – I was considering a relocation to Boston. If you're going to move to an area, one of the ways to get familiar with it, intimately familiar with it is to drive through it if at all possible.

Do You Have a Career Best Friend?

May 31, 2010 by Steven Savage

Do you have a Career Best Friend? Someone to talk to for advice? Someone to bounce career ideas off of? Someone who can talk to you about their career? Someone you share professional experiences with?

We all need a career best friend – or friends – because for careerists life can get awful complex. We can get lost in a maze of certifications and job data, we may need a boost, we may need someone to shoot down a harebrained idea. We also need someone who we are truly friends with to do that, since otherwise we're probably not going to listen to them.