You Won’t Find Your Passion from a Test
Oh geez, I thought as I answered my office phone, first thing this morning. A PR call at eight a.m.? The young man on the phone was trying to sell me on writing a column about his company’s...
View ArticleHow to answer stupid job interview questions
“Trifecta,” said my friend Becky on the phone, although she lives in Colorado; if there’s a racetrack around here, it’s news to me. “Trifecta what?” I asked her. “I just got home from a job interview...
View ArticleJob-hunting? Look for business pain
My young friend Mikayla is a brilliant chickadee, and she’s been that way as long as I’ve known her. Mikayla is my daughter’s friend, and the two of them are sophomores in college now. Back when the...
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Let the kid study music, already
[media-credit name="Andy Cross, The Denver Post" align="alignright" width="300"][/media-credit] Denver School of the Arts percussion student, Zach Bahn, 11-years-old, jams on the Djembe drum on the...
View ArticleForty ways to get unstuck career-wise: downloadable eBook
I worked in a fast-growing high tech company, and it was all fun and games until the CEO said, “Hey, I’m selling the company.” I only got to tell one person, my friend Diane, because Diane and I had to...
View ArticleHow to fire your boss
“And then, you won’t believe what my boss said after that,” continued the young woman, replaying the painful scene in her head. “He said I’m one of the weakest marketers he’s ever known. He said ‘You...
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Don’t Stress About the Dress Code
Don’t stress about the dress code at work. I picked up my phone late one afternoon, while I was finishing a story. An HR manager was on the line. “Can I ask you a quick question about dress code...
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I love my work! It’s the politics that wear me down
In my earliest office job as a very young person, I marveled at the investment of time and energy some of my co-workers put into the care and feeding of office drama. “I can’t understand it,” I said...
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Networking: what’s all the buzz about?
I remember the first time I heard the word “network” used as a verb. One day around 1984, a guy that I had worked with years before called me, out of the blue. He was on a mission. He pronounced the...
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Got a 2014 Career Plan? Start Here!
We had a massive flood in Colorado this year. Anybody in Colorado whose life plans weren’t at least slightly disrupted by Mother Nature in 2013 is a lucky person indeed. My 20-year-old daughter helped...
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