I’ll give you the bottom line right now: The perfect résumé or CV doesn’t exist. Sorry about that.
Why would this be?
Because your résumé is the beginning of a conversation between you and another person.
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In hard times, what do most people do?
Our first thought is to become very conservative. Don’t spend money, don’t take risks, just keep plugging away and working hard until things get better.
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The information you take inI heard about a discussion recently with a lady who was decrying the direction that this country is headed. My understanding was that she’s concerned about the influence of religious fanatics of various faiths and that religious law will overcome the United States. I happen to disagree, but that’s not the point. We can all hold opinions and express our concerns, it’s a free country. |
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Everybody screws up. Guaranteed.
Worse than making a mistake, though, is when others use that to their advantage – to try to establish social superiority, to “make you learn,” to get something out of you.
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I’ve been thinking about how people get addicted to their habits. Some addictions are tough to break because of physical dependency. But most are more benign, and become the habits that run 95% of your day.
What’s interesting is that we may keep these habits, even when they don’t serve us anymore.
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You get your performance evaluation, which lists a whole bunch of things that you’ve done this year, and some strengths and weaknesses. What do you do?
You zoom immediately to the weaknesses. Everything else gets ignored.
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The “why” questionsWe’ve reached the end of all the who, where, what, when, and how questions. The final questions are WHY, which I’ve left to the end because they’re so important. These provide the reason and energy for doing all the other hard work, and indeed for having any career at all. |
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Here’s a powerful story from my colleague, Paul Duncan.
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen, filled three pots with water and placed them all on a high fire. Soon the pots came to the boil. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second, she placed eggs, and in the last, she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. After twenty minutes she turned off the burners.
January 1st is a day when many people think about the past and set resolutions in place for the coming year. It’s a powerful tradition, so it might be interesting to do the same thing for the course of your career.
To start, figure out how far along you are in your career path.
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The “what” questionsAs you’re working through your career planning, perhaps looking for your next job, there are some important “what” questions that can help you to make progress. |
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