Humility will kill your career, but it won’t kill mine.

Sure, Jim Collins tells us that humble leaders do the greatest things. But a quick look around confirms that we prefer self-promoters. It takes me exactly 6 sentences to lay out both how and why humility will kill your career here (p. 52). Now, scientists have confirmed it, too. (Welcome to the party, boys.) Of course, put our preference for confidence together with my new favorite rule of human...

4 Steps to Getting Your College Grad a Job

If you have a recent grad at home, congratulations, that’s fantastic, you’re going to need this: 4 things parents need to do to help their college graduates find jobs: 1. Help them understand their value to employers. The #1 mistake new grads make? They don’t know how to sell themselves to an employer. Here’s what they need to know from you: 2. Don’t just open doors for them, help them...

How to Interview Like a Job Getter (3 of 10)

Answer both the question asked as well as the question you think the interviewer is trying to ask. Once you get the gist of where the interview is heading, run with it! Take a risk in pursuit of your goal: as fast as you can, determine the pattern of the interview, then lead your interviewer along. Appropriate risk taking, the ability to handle ambiguity, and leadership are skills your employer...

How to Interview Like a Job Getter (2 of 10)

In the interview, be the person you intend to become in the new job. If you can’t see yourself in the new job, neither can the interviewer. This means going beyond projecting confidence; it means demonstrating awareness of the types of issues, struggles, opportunities, and decisions you will face in the new role, as well as an appropriately high-level perspective for addressing them. For...

How to Interview Like a Job Getter (1 of 10)

Peruse the typical interviewing guide and you will inevitably learn that when going through a job interview you should sit up strait, speak confidently, be knowledgeable about your prospective employer, dress crisply, lean forward in your chair, etc., etc., etc. Conducting a more in-depth review of the literature will further prepare you to handle tough questions about work experience, to explain...