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Learn to Love It or Shove It: Your Job

by Ray_anne
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  Yesterday, I wrote a post about finding happiness in your work or – or - leaving your work at work and not letting it define the whole of your life.  It was an innocent post about learning to love the tedious parts of your job or the parts you hate and not letting them infect [...]

February 3, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Why Blogging Matters

by Ray_anne
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Social Media has pretty much been dissected, why it matters, why Twitter will change the face of business, why all of it is important.  Or, at least, why someone thinks it’s important.  There are many who write on a regular basis – who produce original content consistently, who create thoughtful and meaningful responses to emotionally [...]

February 1, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Joblessness: Not My Kind of Freedom

by Ray_anne
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Do you know someone out of work?  Maybe several someones?  Do you know anyone who has been laid off or who has had their hours or pay reduced? Have you, yourself, suffered in the current recession?  I hate to say it and I really do not want to believe it, but we are not out [...]

January 31, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Networking is a Team Sport

by Ray_anne
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“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”~Yogi Berra I love baseball. Especially non-MLB. Little League.  High School. Independent Minor League Baseball.  Baseball at its best. Fewer steroids, fewer and less rowdy fans, but still that lovely green grass of a baseball field so lovingly called a diamond and [...]

January 30, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

LIVE during the Dash

by Ray_anne
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Have you heard about your dash?  As in, How’s your dash going?  In this instance, your dash represents the mark on your tombstone that separates your date of birth from your date of death. In other words, it represents your life, the part during your existence in which you lived on earth. And while it’s weird [...]

January 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Determine to Succeed

by Ray_anne
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“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” ~Henry David Thoreau When you wake in the morning, do you look forward to your day? Do you stretch your arms above your head with the desire to wake and start your day or do you slunk back down under the covers, trying [...]

January 25, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Be The Expert

by Ray_anne
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What does desperation do to you as a Businessperson? As a Salesperson? As an HR Professional? As a Recruiting Professional? Sometimes, there comes a valley in the activity and we stagnate, or get bored, or even become desperate. Working to close a deal can be exciting, hectic, hurried, and representing ourselves, our company, or our client properly [...]

January 24, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Gold Standard: Not What it Used to Be

by Ray_anne
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Paper money used to be backed by a supply of gold, actual gold.  Not the flecks that sometimes glitters in lakes and streams or in a quiet ocean, but solid gold. If you desired to trade your paper money in for the only bars better than chocolate, you could. There was a sense of value [...]

January 23, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Resume is Dead

by Ray_anne
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I am waxing nostalgic. What is it about the past that keeps us in it? Or keeps us reverting to it or, sometimes, avoiding it? Do we value it as history and what we can learn from it or is it simply too difficult to let go? From reviewing a résumé to conducting professional reference interviews, [...]

January 20, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Not So Tired After All: The School of Mom

by Ray_anne
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I know it seems impossible, but there are times when I wonder how I can go on; morning arrives and the day and work that lay before me seem incredibly daunting. Evening arrives and I am exhausted. I often question if I will ever not be tired. Will I ever get a full night’s sleep? Will I [...]

January 19, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Anatomy of The Recruiting Interface

by Ray_anne
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Candidate interface. Client interface. Knowing the goals of both is necessary and easily deemed tiresome. Not exactly the most exciting part of the job. Candidates and Clients: when you discover a lack of cohesion between the two, do you push on, hoping that particular deficiency goes away quietly into the dark? Sometimes the rug isn’t big enough [...]

January 18, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

You Can’t Always Get What you Want: Hard Work

by Ray_anne
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In order to achieve success, one has to work very hard or just be very lucky. I have learned, the hard way, “you can’t always get what you want.“ Achieving desired success… Unfortunately, what we want isn’t always what we need.  Sometimes, our desires are more deeply rooted than our needs. Money is the obvious payoff for [...]

January 17, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Customer Service Ain’t What It Used to Be

by Ray_anne
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Why are you receiving this notice? Leave your name and contact information at the tone * Press 2 to speak with a customer service representative * Follow the directions inscribed here * To make a payment, please press 1 * To hear the company directory, press 411 * Part A connects to Part B, then [...]

January 16, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Facebook and Love. Not necessarily in that order…

by Ray_anne
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  I have been threatening to write this post for a while.  Why has it taken me so long? Because this story is living, it is breathing, and it continues to evolve.  But I can no longer “not” write it.  It is written indelibly across my heart, to be sure.  Loving someone has never been [...]

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