• Speak Up, Introverts! How to Get Your Voice Heard in Meetings

    It's tough to be an introvert sometimes. I'm speaking from experience here, being a proud member of that less-socially-brash clan myself.One of the toughest situations to be in as an introvert is the company meeting. Meetings are necessary – they're how collaboration happens, how people stay informed. But for introverts, meetings can also be super stressful. It can be hard enough to speak up in more casual group settings. During ...
  • Resume Storytelling Strategies That Attract Recruiters

    Building a storytelling resume isn't about holding story time to lull the reader to sleep. Instead, storytelling resumes are akin to miniature action movies. They include a beginning, a middle, and an end – or "rising action," "climax," and "falling action" in storytelling terms.The problem with most resumes is that they leap from rising action (challenge + action) to falling action (result), omitting the climax along the way. For example, in ...
  • Flexible Work Is Changing – Your Business Had Better Change, Too

    Many employers have learned to incorporate flexible workers – freelancers, contract workers, temps, etc. – into their business models in recent years. Once considered second-rate, these flexible workers now constitute the backbones of countless organizations.Of the estimated 162 million gig workers across the United States and Europe, 44 percent do gig work as their main source of income, according to new ...
  • 10 Ways to Get People Interested in a Not-so-Hot Job Opportunity

    I present quite often on how to get people interested in jobs, also known as "employer branding." When doing these presentations, I usually get some variation of the following question: "How do I get people interested in a dead-end job?"Maybe the job pays peanuts. Perhaps there are no real benefits. It might even be a job most ...
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