Archive for April, 2011

Best Career Advice: Be a Good Listener

Craig Black, Freelance Copywriter “The best career advice I’ve ever received is very simple: Be a good listener. Every day, every conversation, every interaction is an opportunity to practice being a good listener. The closer I pay attention to not only what people are saying, but also how they’re saying it, the better I’ll understand [...]


Best Career Advice: Don’t be Tempted by a Counter-Offer.

I absolutely didn’t prompt colleague and former client, Debbie Sharken to come up with this advice, but I’m so glad she did! Accepting a counter-offer is one of the most painful and discouraging events I run across as a recruiter. However tempting it is to stay, here are the things to consider before accepting a [...]


Best Career Advice: Don’t be a Victim

Derek Correia, CEO, Source Marketing The single best advice I ever heard was from Aylwin Lewis, who was a fantastic leader during his tenure as COO at Pizza Hut. The piece of advice? “Don’t be a victim.” It was a statement of how you handle adversity, which you will most certainly have, quite frequently, in [...]


Best Career Advice: Learn How to Sell Your Ideas

Pete Van Bloem, Sr. Copy Extrovert at Extrovertic The best work advice I ever got was while I was still in college. I met a friend-of-a-friend who was working at Ogilvy. I expressed interest in advertising, and he said: “If you want to go into advertising, marketing or public relations, you have to know how [...]

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