Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the February 18, 2002 issue of
QuintZine.
Finding career inspiration is a matter of thinking like
an 8-year-old, wrote Dave Murphy recently in the San Francisco
Examiner. "If that 8-year-old inside you has died, it makes it
just about impossible to change careers," Murphy writes of the
wide-eyed innocence with which children dream big dreams of
what they want to be when they grow up. Murphy suggests as
inspiration not traditional career books, but books of poetry
and quotes, as well as biographies of heroes to emulate.
"Inspiration is all around you," he writes. "But first you have to
let that 8-year-old come out and play."
On her Five O'Clock Club Web site, Kate Wendleton offers
a free "Seven Stories Exercise" Worksheet" downloadable as
a PDF document.
The exercise asks you examine the most satisfying experiences
of your life with the goal of identifying the skills you most want
to use in the future.
Recruiting Trends reports that demand for sales and
marketing professionals, while down from the record-high
levels of the past two years, is still relatively strong
and should remain buoyant for the rest of 2002. "Although
projected new hires are down from the dizzying heights of
a year ago, the fact that more than 40 percent of the
companies we surveyed will be adding to their sales and
marketing staffs during the next six months is a very
optimistic sign for the economy," says Management Recruiters
International president and CEO Allen Salikof. "There is
market share out there to be gained, and sales people will
be the drivers who bring that business to their companies."
All regions of the country are projecting lower levels of
hiring for the first half of the year, but no region is
seriously lagging behind the national average."
Finding career inspiration is a matter of thinking like
an 8-year-old, wrote Dave Murphy recently in the San Francisco
Examiner. "If that 8-year-old inside you has died, it makes it
just about impossible to change careers," Murphy writes of the
wide-eyed innocence with which children dream big dreams of
what they want to be when they grow up. Murphy suggests as
inspiration not traditional career books, but books of poetry
and quotes, as well as biographies of heroes to emulate.
"Inspiration is all around you," he writes. "But first you have to
let that 8-year-old come out and play."
