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Harvard Business Review’s Ideacast: The Best Career Management Podcasts
November 13, 2009 – 11:08 am | One Comment
Harvard Business Review’s Ideacast: The Best Career Management Podcasts

The Smart Lemming recommends these Harvard Business Review podcasts for managing your career:

HBR IdeaCast 4: The Joys of Deliberate Mistakes and “Middlescence” with Tamara Erickson
HBR IdeaCast 17: Science Business and Be Your CEO with …

Personal Branding is NOT Career Management
November 11, 2009 – 12:44 pm | No Comment
Personal Branding is NOT Career Management

With so much valuable information on personal brands in book and blogs, don’t lose the forest for the trees. Personal branding ≠ career management. I repeat, personal branding by itself is NOT managing your career.

You are What You Project
October 29, 2009 – 12:45 pm | No Comment
You are What You Project

You have only a few seconds to make a good first impression. Packaging matters in the workplace, and you are a package. The image you project influences the way others perceive you. Everything about you from your shoes to your hairstyle to your wristwatch communicates some kind of message.

What NOT to Do in a Job Interview: Talk about yourself in the third person
October 25, 2009 – 6:00 pm | No Comment
What NOT to Do in a Job Interview: Talk about yourself in the third person

The first in The Smart Lemming’s new series “What NOT to Do in a Job Interview” (yes, sadly, there are so many dumb things people do in job interviews that it warrants an entire series), …

Business Lessons from Star Trek: Keep Your Ambition Under Control
October 19, 2009 – 10:53 am | No Comment
Business Lessons from Star Trek: Keep Your Ambition Under Control

To get your next promotion, you have to learn how to take initiative, have patience, master your body language, and not burn bridges. Don’t walk over peers and superiors either.
“The Best of Both Worlds - …

Personal Branding Tip: Lose the Tone in Your Voice, Don’t Channel Your Inner Seven of Nine
October 13, 2009 – 11:21 am | 4 Comments
Personal Branding Tip: Lose the Tone in Your Voice, Don’t Channel Your Inner Seven of Nine

Intelligence, certainty, and confidence contribute to a successful career. How communicate with others, specifically speak to others influence how others perceive us. But what does tone have to do with our communications with others? Everything. …

The 6 Ps of Career Management
October 7, 2009 – 2:56 pm | 2 Comments
The 6 Ps of Career Management

I was inspired by Mike Sansone’s post “The 6 Ps of BizBlog Practice.” His 6 Ps model was easily transferable to managing your career. I call it the 6 P’s of Career Management. It’s a …

Smart Lemming Action Items: Becoming a Happier Person, Improving Your Skills, and Branding Icon Michael Jackson
July 3, 2009 – 9:03 am | No Comment
Smart Lemming Action Items: Becoming a Happier Person, Improving Your Skills, and Branding Icon Michael Jackson

10 Ways to Actively Manage Your Career Now

All the Advice on Happiness You’ll Ever Need in One Post: Mr. Zen, Leo Baubuta, has compiled his favorite articles on happiness. Everyone knows that happiness is a …

Speedlinking: Assessing Your Work Life, Creating Your Own Luck, and Getting Away for the Holiday
July 3, 2009 – 7:27 am | One Comment
Speedlinking: Assessing Your Work Life, Creating Your Own Luck, and Getting Away for the Holiday

The U.S. lost 467,000 jobs in June, pushing the national unemployment rate of 9.5% to its highest point in 26 years. If you still have a job, then now is the time to assess your …

12 Questions for Career Mindfulness: #12 What if you finally get to do what you always wanted?
June 30, 2009 – 9:39 am | No Comment
12 Questions for Career Mindfulness: #12 What if you finally get to do what you always wanted?

What if you finally got what you always wanted? Perhaps the real question is, “What do you want to do?”
I know that I like building things. I like working wherever I want, whenever I want. …