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Ten Steps To Getting A Cool Career
If you are looking for an unconventional career, you need some unconventional strategies to help you find it. Here’s 10:

MYTH: Cold calling is a good idea
In the "olden days" when I first started my business, over 95% of my sales came about through cold calling, which I had learnt to do really well when I worked as a sales recruitment specialist with Morgan & Banks. At M&B - and in my business - it was very clear that if I didn't bill anything I didn't earn anything. So I got on the phones and I prospected to people I didn't know - that is, cold calling. This was well and truly before the internet was in mainstream use and I had the privilege of learning how to cold call really well. But it is a FACT that in an essentially crowded market place of the 21st century, businesses require a series of "push" and "pull" prospecting strategies rather than one simplistic "push" approach to selling such as cold calling.
Career Survival Tactics
You only have to open the daily paper to hear about the latest trends of downsizing, rightsizing, or latest wave of terminations a desperate attempt to recession proof businesses. Companies big and small are not immune, employees old or new are at risk, so the question is how can you increase your chances of staying in your job or landing the next position when layoffs and redundancy becomes inevitable? How can you manage your career so this doesn’t happen to you?

Debunking the Six Degrees of Separation
Do you believe that anyone in the world is only six people removed? Here's why that theory's wrong and what it means for networking.

Making the Transition After a Layoff
Here’s something you should know - traditional career search strategies like online job postings, advertisements, and employment centres represent about 20% of the available jobs in the market, but more than 80% of people use these methods to find their next position. On the flip side, 80% of jobs are available through networking, friends and business contacts, but only 20% of job seekers use their contacts to find work. Now is the time to make yourself extremely visible and to promote your credibility.

All Social Isn't Business, All Business Isn't Social
Despite what "social media specialists" tell you not all social media is about business and all business certainly isn't about social media. Get real and use it when it works and when it doesn't stay out of folks way. Of course those people can also turn on you when you're not paying 100% attention so walk with ease, talk gently, do the right thing first. Then things are so much better. There are a lot of challenges, opportunities out there for everyone.

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Severance and Separation Agreements
One topic I get a lot of questions about is severance and separation agreements. Although there's a distinct difference between the two, and some overlap, with some guidance the costs and benefits of both types of agreements can be understood and used to a business' advantage.
Questions Concerning Severance & Separation Agreements
General analysis concerning severance and separation agreements from a business owner's perspective.
More Questions Concerning Severance & Separation Agreements
A reader asks me more questions based on my prior article regarding severance and separation agreements.
7 Reasons to Invest in Yourself Today
You are all you have! I know this to be the case first hand. There’s nothing like a separation, grueling divorce and – here’s the kicker – a near death experience to clue you in that without you and your ability to be at your best – physically, mentally, emotionally and intellectually, you have less.

Success Principle: the 212 Degrees Attitude
Working toward a goal in life is much like boiling water on the stove. Nothing seems to happen until the temperature turns from 211 to 212 degrees. That one extra degree makes all the difference.
The Barriers To Great Communications
The art of communicating is to understand that at a deep level we are all really one. There is no separation. When we know this, we immediately overcome the barriers that we build to keep ourselves separate. This article shows you how.
How To Introduce Yourself in a Way That Will Grow Your Business
I don't know about you but I just love summertime! It's a time for outdoor barbecues and pool parties and meeting lots of fun new people. And meeting all these new people provides a terrific opportunity for growing your small business. If you think of the six degrees of separation (have you ever played the Kevin Bacon game?) almost every one you'll ever need to grow your small business is represented right there at that summertime barbecue. And you thought you were only going for the burgers!

Leadership or Friendship or Both
I believe I can say from my parent’s generation that there was almost a “hands-off” approach between the leader in a company and the employees; and most employees seemed to want the separation. I also know when I first entered the world of management this atmosphere was still in place. I’ve watched it gradually change over the years.

How to Get Referrals from People you Don't Know
It is a small world. Each of us can reach anyone in the world (all six billion souls) through a maximum of six other people. The six degrees of separation has been widely publicised and talked about. A scientific study demonstrated the truth of it. By way of letters, researchers asked people to forward a polite request to whoever amongst their contacts was most likely to know a particular person. They found they were able to get a message through to randomly selected people via only a few links. The calculated maximum distance between any two people in the world is 5.5, in terms of the number of people it will take to pass on a message. Read this article to learn more about ways to leverage this astonishing information to get in touch with hard to reach people.

You are Priceless
Find the you that you truly want to be, the you of abundance and hope and not the you of separation and lack.

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