One of my favorite bloggers, ProBlogger, has a great post on what it takes to run a successful blog. If you are currently blogging or are thinking about blogging this is a MUST read. Keep up the good work Darren!
We went to see the new Will Smith movie, In The Pursuit of Happyness. I give it two thumbs up! It was very motivating and very inspiring. We all could learn something from Will’s character.
1. Don’t ever give up
2. Find your passion Not Your Job!
3. Use your God-given strengths in your job and you will succeed
4. Work harder than anyone else if you want to succeed
5. Do what it takes to get through the hard times
6. Stay true to who you are in the good times and in the bad times
7. Be persistent
8. An internship really can lead to a job!
I loved the movie! Go see it!
If you have seen it, let me know what you think by emailing me or posting a comment!
Sincerely
Justin Driscoll
I have some questions about the quarterlife crisis?
What is the quarterlife crisis? What are your symptoms of you suffer from this crisis? Are people really in a crisis when they hit 25 years old? How do you know if you suffer from this problem? I am sorry but I haven’t read the book on the problem, but since I am at my quarterlife I thought I would inquire.
I think people have invented this “crisis” because they aren’t living their passion. I think people who have this crisis feel like they are in a crisis because they are in a place in their life that makes them unhappy, usually as a result of many wrong choices. The same statement can be made about those in a mid-life crisis. These crisis’ only exist if you allow them to.
If you are truly living your passion in life you can avoid going through a quarterlife, mid-life, semi-mid, or late-in-life crisis. If you feel unhappy with yourself take some time and set away from your situation. Find some wise people you can trust and talk with them about what you are going through. Think about your situation and ask yourself what do you want to do for a living? What type of job would make you happy? What type of job would allow you to use your strengths as a person? What job would allow you to use your God given talents? Then jump back in and be successful, excel at what ever you do!
Sincerely,
Justin
PS: If you suffer from this problem please send me an email or comment on this post. I would love to know about your situation.
The Seventh Annual Weblog Awards is now open for nominations for it’s 2007 awards.
Feel free to click over there and vote for my blog, www.justindriscoll.net.
Thanks
Justin
Is Volkswagen nuts?
In case you haven’t heard Volkswagen recently raised their work week from 28.8 to 33 hours. How dare they!!! Have they gone insane?!?!?!?
For all of you who work way more than 33 hours in a week, I am sure this was a laughable article in the Wall Street Journal today. Unless you pay for the Journal online you cannot read the article. However, it is in the print version as well.
A great gift for students!
The 7 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Graduated!
The book that will help your find your passion and not your job!
I wrote this book with the intent of helping other people find their career passion in life. The lack of direction amongst people is staggering. The large majority of people do not have a clue about what they want to do with their career. They are simply working in a job to pay the bills. The seven chapters outlined in my book are designed to give the reader industry-guided career advice. Is it the end-all book for career guidance? No, but I encourage you to read it and apply what I suggest to see if there aren’t truths within.
You will learn:
The most successful and happy people at work are those who are living their passion!
Order Justin’s book today to reap the benefits of a successful career!
Welcome to the year of Career 2.0!
2006 may have been the year of Web 2.0, but I am confident that 2007 is poised to be the year of Career 2.0. Allow me to elaborate. Starting in 2007 we will see a greater acceptance and adoption of Web 2.0 tools in the human resources world and a great use of these tools by job seekers to communicate their worth to HR professionals. Thereby, creating a Career 2.0 hiring world.
1. Pop Culture Acceptance - I am confident that the Web 2.0 world is going to gain in popularity by the general public in 2007. It is already, and has been, very popular in the tech world and with the early adopters but I feel 2007 is set to be the year of web 2.0. Blogs, vodcasts, podcasts, wiki’s, widgets, social networking, blog communities, RSS, XML, and the like will become more and more common place in our culture.
2. Career 2.0 – What does this mean for career development and workforce education? Since these Web 2.0 tools will be more widely known they will begin to make their way into the hiring practices of HR professionals and the job searching methods of job seekers. We will begin to see more and more HR professionals using thinks like widgets, smaller targeted job boards like Job Thread, blogs, social networking sites, podcasts, wiki’s, Google adwords, text advertising on blogs, and even vodcasts. Likewise, more and more job seekers will begin to use these tools to advance their hiring chances. We already have some great examples in this arena according to a new web site, Blog For Jobs.com. By in large, these examples are few and far between, but throughout 2007 that will all change.
3. Human Resource Need – Many of these tools will take effect because of the upcoming labor shortage. If you read other workforce futurists’ opinions about the future labor force you will find a trend. Most of them are of the belief that there is a fast approaching labor shortage in America. In fact, many of them believe this labor shortage will make the labor shortage in the 90s pale in comparison. Therefore, since there is going to be the beginnings of a great labor shortage companies will need to be innovative in their hiring methods, specifically their sourcing methods. Web 2.0 is in a perfect position to take advantage of the upcoming labor shortage because it can offer solutions to HR managers as a way to help them find qualified candidates faster. There is never a shortage of people in a labor shortage, but a shortage of qualified people.
4. Job Seekers Need – Not only will this labor shortage force HR professionals to be innovative it their hiring practices but it will also force job seekers to be even more innovative in their job searching methods. In the past tools such as online job boards, the newspaper, and company web sites were to major sources of job leads for seekers. That is of course not to mention the large majority of people who found their jobs via referrals. However, even when a candidate is referred to a company via professional networking they still need to show that company how valuable they are and how qualified they are for that position before they would land the job. In the past this has been done strictly via a cover letter and resume. Starting in 2007 I believe we will begin to see more and more movements toward things like video resumes, a greater reliance on job seeker blogs and /or sites that display a persons worth to a company. Since the labor shortage will be great in some industries those people who work in those industries will need to have tools in place to be able to communicate their value to the HR professionals who are looking for qualified talent. Web 2.0 tools will be that delivery method.
These are just a few ideas on how 2007 is poised to be the year of Career 2.0. I will begin to add more and more ways Web 2.0 is going to be Career 2.0 in 2007 over the next couple of weeks.
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