The Career You'll Love

I had the opportunity to work in Australia for a couple of years back in the mid-nineties, and subsequently I’ve worked with other people who had a desire to make these kinds of shifts in their careers.

It can take amazing amounts of courage even to consider a move of this magnitude, especially when it deeply affects your family and friends. But the personal experience and career development can be enormous, if you’re up to it.

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When I was in school, it seemed like I was always on the outside of the important cliques. You know what I mean: Those tight social groups that seemed most intent on excluding other kids.

If you remove the label, though, you see that small social groups are a natural part of how society works.

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Following are 5 quicks tips for making your point: (1) be direct, (2) be consistent, (3) reinforce the message, (4) help people remember the message, and (5) be done.

Take a look at the videos from the TED conferences. They tend to have so much impact because they’re short, they convey the presenter’s personality, and they’re quite diverse.

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There are three types of people: Those who use Twitter, those who never heard of it, and those who heard of it but can’t imagine why they should care. Let me talk for a moment to this last group. Not to change your mind, but just to give you a different perspective.

“Why would I care to hear what someone had for breakfast?”

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You’re doing your best to hang on to your job, constantly worried that it might disappear tomorrow. That’s consuming so much mental energy that it’s hard to think much about next month, much less a year or two in the future.

But that’s dangerous.

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If you’re trying to make professional connections, LinkedIn is clearly the place to be. Everybody’s there, everybody’s connecting.

But I’m surprised at the number of people who haven’t given much thought to the image they’re projecting.

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I’m having a discussion with someone, and they just don’t seem to get it. Everything is so clear in my mind, so obviously they’re not as smart as me – otherwise they’d know what I’m saying.

There’s many a slip ‘twixt the mind and the mouth.

The problem is that communicating with other people is a very messy and imperfect activity.

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