Throughout my career, I have been leading people who are older than me. In some occasions, these people can be more than a decade older. It wasn’t always like that. When I was a younger, I was the kid who everyone makes fun of while I worked my butt off to try to become accepted [...]
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Networking is tough, mainly because you are forced to cross through your comfort zone. Engaging and talking to strangers can be rather intimidating. However, the fear of reaching out is essentially based on illusions. In reality, there is really nothing that could be lost (assuming you don’t need to interact
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No CommentsNetworking, or building relationships rather, is one of the most important concepts in becoming successful. Nothing can be done on your own, and the stronger your connections are, the more resourceful you are, and ultimately, the “luckier” you become. Here we will share the core concepts of good networking.
Networking starts with the Self
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No CommentsRemember this concept. One of the best ways to keep track of your career is to understand where you are relative to your peers not just within your company but with competitors as well. Reason being that your competitors are most likely doing work similar to your own company. Following that thought would [...]
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No CommentsYou just found a job and now it’s Day 1 of the rest of your life. Welcome to the real world. A life of waking up at 6:30 or 7 AM, putting in 8 – 12 hours a day on completing project tasks, and driving unmercifully through tons of traffic filled with other disgruntled drivers. [...]
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No CommentsThe best interviews are conversations. What I mean by this is that the interview was NOT in the question then answer, question then answer format. Instead, you and the interviewer actively engaged in a conversation and you connected through similar interests outside of the work place environment. The biggest mistake that students and young professionals [...]
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No CommentsAfter editing over a hundred resumes, I realized that most people’s resume is only at around 10-15% capacity. I have seen people who have been working on their resumes for hours every week for 6 months, and it barely reaches 50% capacity. As a result, FD created a system and philosophy of Resume Optimization. The [...]
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No CommentsLast week, I attended an entrepreneur web 2.0 conference called GABA – the German American Business Association. Everyone in the room was German, and to be honest, I stuck out like a soar thumb. In a way, my not being German worked to my advantage because people remember meeting someone who sticks out from the [...]
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