Finding Your Foundation

Amid life’s frenzy, many people pass through their days without having consciously selected their foundational principles, those on which their life’s major decisions should based.

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer questions that may help you develop yours. They’re from my new book, Careers for Dummies.

When You're Ignored

Interviewing in the Media: Landing an interview and doing well.

Being interviewed is among the easier ways to share your expertise with many others while benefiting yourself: It casts you as an expert and sharpens your expertise—Knowing you’ll be interviewed motivates you to think hard about what ideas are most worth promulgating.

Having been interviewed everywhere from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show to The Daily Show, I’ve learned a few things about getting interviewed.  In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer ideas adapted from my just-published book, Careers for Dummies.

Making a Radical Career Change

You know that a career tweak won’t do—It’s time for a radical career change. But it’s scary. After all, you’ll have to convince an employer to hire you for a better job without a significant pay cut even though s/he likely has many applicants with experience. Plus, you probably don’t have the time or money for a long back-to-school stint. Yes, it’s difficult but often done. 

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers tactics derived from a chapter of my new book Careers for Dummies.

Overview of my new book, Careers for Dummies

7 Unspoken Rules for Workplace Success

You may wonder why people less competent than you get ahead while you languish. True, it could be appearance, race, or gender but often, more malleable factors are at play.

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer seven unspoken rules for workplace success. They derive from my new book, Careers for Dummies.

Figuring Out What Makes You Special

No one wants to feel ordinary: a replaceable part in society, the workplace, or in relationships.
Fortunately, even identical twins aren’t completely identical. So there probably are myriad ways you different from The Norm. But how do you figure out what makes you special, and more challenging, how you might better use your specialness to enhance your place in the world?

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers 11 questions derived from a chapter in my just-published book, Careers for Dummies that may help: