The key to career success

One of the great American Success stories.

“I will come to America, which is the country for me. Once here, I will become the greatest bodybuilder in history.  While I am doing this I will learn perfect English and educate myself.  I will get a college degree so I can get a business degree.  At the same time, I will make whatever money possible from bodybuilding and invest it in real estate where I will make the big money. I will then go into the movies as an actor, producer and eventually director. By the time I am 30 I will have starred in my first movie and I will be a millionaire. I will collect houses, art and automobiles. I will see the world. Along the way, I will learn to impress people and I will hone my mind to outwit all of them.  I will marry a glamorous and intelligent wife. By 32, I will have been invited to the white house…”

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Learn how to take rejection gracefully

Nobody likes rejection – I mean rejection is really hard to take, especially if it is a job you really wanted. But you have to remember, you are not alone as even the most famous amongst us were rejected, or faced obstacles before they succeeded.

Take these examples from history:

• Chester Carlson, a young inventor, took his idea to 20 big corporations in the 1940s. After seven years of rejections, he was able to persuade Haloid, a small company in Rochester, N.Y., to purchase the rights to his electrostatic paper- copying process. Haloid has since become Xerox Corporation.
• Thomas Edison tried over 2,000 experiments before he was able to get his light bulb to work. Upon being asked how he felt about failing so many times, he replied, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process.”
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Are you sabotaging your job search without even realising it?  So often we start out with good intentions and then after a couple of rejection letters, give up on ourselves.  In this article, I cover the top 6 areas in which you could be sabotaging your job search and career.

‘The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low….and we reach it’ – Michelangelo

Welcome to the New Year! 

In this weeks article I decided to focus on goal setting, as so often the beginning of the year is a time to reflect on the past and set new goals for 2011.  So many of us start with great new year resolutions, such as loosing weight, giving up smoking, finding a new job, but within a few weeks nothing has changed and life continues as normal. [Read more...]