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  Owyang On Advancing Your Career

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  6 days ago in Running With Foxes · Authority: 23

  Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester has some interesting career tips. The basics are (with my thoughts inline): Learn something new every day - read interesting blogs Often, the fastest way Up is Out - if you dont have a large stake in a company, remember that
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  Lifehack Digest for May 9

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  5 days ago in Stepcase Lifehack : Productivity, Getting Things Done and Lifehacks Blog · Authority: 3,207

  Lifehack Digest for May 9 The Alternative Productivity ManifestoClay at the Growing Life rants about the emergence of productivity as a hobby — and the increasing demands placed on workers to be productive.Tags: gtd productivity hacks anti-hacks Six Career TipsJeremiah Owyang shares his advices which could help you grow and achieve the career goal you want.Tags: career planning So Much to Do, Not Enough Time!Mark Evans’ take on how to deal
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  Six Career Tips

  http://issaarba.blogspot.com/2008/05/six-career-tips.html
  3 days ago in ISSAArBA · Authority: 2

  La primera de las claves, que es aprender algo nuevo cada dia, no solo es basica, sino estrategica. Normalmente complemento esto con otras dos acciones que son. Que has aprendido a hacer mejor hoy? Que informacion has compartido hoy? si las tres condiciones se han cumplido satisfactoriamente, entonces ha sido un dia productivo. saludos santiago Six Career Tips May 08th, 2008 | Category: Career, Web Team, Web Industry Lately, a few friends of mine are making some moves in their careers, they asked me for my advice, so I decided to give them my observations. I’ll probably refer people to this post, I often use this blog to save me time. One caveat, my experience is within corporate, so if you’re of the entrepreneurial spirit, I don’t have as much insight. Six Career Tips To Help You Grow Learn something new every day When I was a lowly intern right out of college doing grunt work IT application clean up and light UI design, I asked harassed, my dear colleagues to teach me something every single day. They thought I was bright-eyed, cute, and naive and I ended up learning a little about each of the web developers, system integrators, project managers, web managers, web architects, computer support teams. Although this was clearly outside of the scope of an intern, bit by bit, I soaked in each little morsel about web in the enterprise and it fueled me to learn more. Leo Cheng, Jason Martorano, Oliver Cheng, Dave Giffen, John Perera, Kunal Malik, Jeff Cavano, Aileen Cheng, Robert Cartelli were so good to me, thanks guys. Often, the fastest way Up is Out Often, the fastest way up, for those who enjoy working in companies, is out. In most cases, incremental raises are often single digit changes (keeping you above the inflation waterline), and the occasional promotion will be low double digits. For those that I’ve met and move to new job positions, outside of their company they can often expect a 20%-40% increase in salary as they join a new company. It’s interesting to see that firms may value outside talent as more important than inside experience talent, in some cases, a fresh skillset or experience may be what’s needed. Reverse engineer the job you want Another useful tip is to reverse engineer the position that you desire to be in. Earlier in my career, I aspired to be a web manager, so I took job descriptions of web strategists and looked at all the skills and experiences needed. I printed out the job description (circled the salary) and taped it to my bathroom mirror, I saw it every morning and night, a double dose of self-reflection. Over time, you start to piece together the projects, programs, and apply new skills to learn how to do this. With time and perseverance, your resume will catch up to where you want to go. Education matters, but not as much as you thought For very specialized jobs, where in school training is essential (law, medicine, sometimes programming) this bullet doesn’t apply to you. More and more executives I meet have degrees in something they didn’t study in school for. For most jobs, they hire you because of what you can do for them, not what school you went to. There’s a reason why education falls to the bottom of the resume, and the ‘value statement’ is at the top, quickly followed by real world experience. Don’t get me wrong, education is very important, a bachelor degree is really expected in today’s workplace, but I often lean on the broad, theoretical knowledge I gained as a primer (or glossary) for me to dive in deeper in the business world. You are a company of one The other observation I share with my friend (and now you) is that you are a company of one. Even though your paycheck is being delivered through your employer, you are solely responsible for your direction, what you learn, how you perform, and how much you’re paid. I firmly believe that you are paid what you’re worth, so when I hear people complaining “they are underpaid”, in my mind, I translate that as you’ve “undersold yourself”, get skilled, spend time on weekends or early mornings to learn more, and apply new projects, programs and skills –or leave. Therefore, you are your own CEO, CMO, CFO, COO, CTO, you’re in control of your destiny. As you can tell, I don’t believe in fate, you are driving your ship of one. Develop your plan, and put it in writing If you’re with me so far, develop your own plan, both short term and long term plans, and set goals on how to reach them. Often, these goals don’t have titles or companies in them, but they describe the environment, or the end outcomes of which you want to reach. Over time these goals will change, and that’s ok, but at least you’re looking forward. I learned this from my buddy’s dad when I was growing up, he had several businesses, and one of his dreams was to have a Ferrari –he achieved it. Wishing you all the best! (really) I want to see you succeed. I get emails about once a month, where someone has said they’ve achieved more, party due to this blog, (but the majority due to their ambition of course) If you’ve other tips, please share in the comments. Update: Connie Benson reminded me to post up my mantra of “pay yourself first” and “Manage your time as you do money“. http://www.ISSAArBA.org "ISSA Information Systems Security Association" "Asociacion Internacional de Seguridad de Sistemas de Informacion" Capitulo Argentina - Buenos Aires
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  Six Career Tips

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  4 days ago in AcademicA · Authority: 2

  AcademicA Mohammad Behdad (محمد بهداد) is a software engineer/university lecturer. × close May 12 Linux Pronunciation May 11
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  You’re your own CEO, so act on it

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  5 days ago in Working the market and the opportunities as a self-employed individual — Battling It Solo · No authority yet

  I was reading Jeremiah Owyang’s six career tips, when once sentence really struck a chord with me: …you are your own CEO, CMO, CFO, COO, CTO, you’re in control of your destiny. As you can tell, I don’t believe in fate, you are driving your ship of one. There is essentially no difference between this fundamental truth and being self-employed. The only two differences are: You’re very conscious of the fact that you are your own boss. You need to constantly communicate value in order to get clients and ultimately get paid. Selling, which is usually the big bad beast in this equation, is actually less hard as you are already doing it day in and day out to justify your paycheck. Add to this that it’s utterly rewarding to free yourself from the corporate stress, and I should think the road should be open wide for you to quit and embark on your own personal adventure. To board your own ship. Wouldn’t you? Then what’s holding you back.
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  Sunday Link Frenzie - Career Tips, Pixar’s Innovation, and Porn

  http://www.brentter.com/sunday-link-frenzie-career-tips-pixa...
  5 days ago in Everything's Better With Brentter · Authority: 32

  6 Career Tips from Jeremiah Owyang. - Great advice for anyone, even those who find themselves in that grey area of not knowing what career path to take. New Ways To Find Business Mentors from GeekPreneur. Some tips on how to find successful entrepreneurs who are willing to lend a helping hand/give advice. Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - A great article on how Pixar tries to keep their employees in a constant state of collaboration, including having the bathrooms centralized to help avoid the emergence of workplace segmentation. Zivity hires Napster Co-founder Jordan Ritter as CTO - this should be interesting - sleazy executive finally lands the gig he’s been waiting for… a fully-funded soft-core porn startup. How To Get A Job In Venture Capital - Interesting follow-up to a previous article on how to break into the funding side of the business. image courtesy of Mohamed Shaaz Post originally from from: Brentter.com - Everything's Better With Brentter Related PostsJohnnie Walker - Striding (Directors Cut)Tornado Hits Atlanta and Hates Our AdvertisingHonda - Problem Playground (with behind the scenes footage)
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  Saturday Link Frenzie - Career Tips, Pixar’s Innovation, and Porn

  http://www.brentter.com/saturday-link-frenzie-career-tips-pi...
  5 days ago in Everything's Better With Brentter · Authority: 32

  6 Career Tips from Jeremiah Owyang. - Great advice for anyone, even those who find themselves in that grey area of not knowing what career path to take. New Ways To Find Business Mentors from GeekPreneur. Some tips on how to find successful entrepreneurs who are willing to lend a helping hand/give advice. Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - A great article on how Pixar tries to keep their employees in a constant state of collaboration, including having the bathrooms centralized to help avoid the emergence of workplace segmentation. Zivity hires Napster Co-founder Jordan Ritter as CTO - this should be interesting - sleazy executive finally lands the gig he’s been waiting for… a fully-funded soft-core porn startup. How To Get A Job In Venture Capital - Interesting follow-up to a previous article on how to break into the funding side of the business. image courtesy of Mohamed Shaaz Post originally from from: Brentter.com - Everything's Better With Brentter Related PostsJohnnie Walker - Striding (Directors Cut)Tornado Hits Atlanta and Hates Our AdvertisingHonda - Problem Playground (with behind the scenes footage)
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  Lifehack Digest for May 9

  http://lifestylenews2u.com/2008/05/10/lifehack-digest-for-ma...
  5 days ago in Life Style News 2 U · Authority: 9

  The Alternative Productivity Manifesto Clay at the Growing Life rants about the emergence of productivity as a hobby — and the increasing demands placed on workers to be productive. Tags: gtd productivity hacks anti-hacks Six Career Tips Jeremiah Owyang shares his advices which could help you grow and achieve the career goal you want. Tags: career planning So Much to Do, Not Enough Time! Mark Evans’ take on how to deal with the notion of not-enough-time. Tags: productivity time overwhelmed Stuff-onomics: Hidden Side of What You Own | ThinkSimpleNow.com “I’ve learned so many life lessons in the past few months, and I’ll start to share them with you over time. But the biggest lesson I’ve learned is how little we actually need. How little we need in order to be happy.” Tags: simplicity organization clutter Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive Great deal of advice for startups grouped by subject. Tags: startup entrepreneurship Filemail.com Send up to 2GB file without registering. Tags: storage email 7 Ways You Can Stop Wasting Food And Help Save The Earth “An introductory list of habits you can develop in your life that will help you to stop wasting food so as to save money and be environmentally friendly.” Tags: environment health Share This Related Posts Lifehack Digest for May 1 Lifehack Digest for April 30 Lifehack Digest for April 29 Lifehack Digest for April 14 Lifehack Digest for April 10 Lifehack Digest for April 2 Lifehack Digest for March 31 Lifehack Digest for March 14 Lifehack Digest for March 11 Lifehack Digest for March 7 Lifehack Digest for February 24 Lifehack Digest for February 22 Lifehack Digest for February 19 Lifehack Digest for February 14 Lifehack Digest for January 28
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  Lifehack Digest for May 9

  http://lifeclerks.com/2008/05/lifehack-digest-for-may-9/
  5 days ago in Life Clerks · Authority: 6

  The Alternative Productivity Manifesto Clay at the Growing Life rants about the emergence of productivity as a hobby — and the increasing demands placed on workers to be productive. Tags: gtd productivity hacks anti-hacks Six Career Tips Jeremiah Owyang shares his advices which could help you grow and achieve the career goal you want. Tags: career planning So Much to Do, Not Enough Time! Mark Evans’ take on how to deal with the notion of not-enough-time. Tags: productivity time overwhelmed Stuff-onomics: Hidden Side of What You Own | ThinkSimpleNow.com “I’ve learned so many life lessons in the past few months, and I’ll start to share them with you over time. But the biggest lesson I’ve learned is how little we actually need. How little we need in order to be happy.” Tags: simplicity organization clutter Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive Great deal of advice for startups grouped by subject. Tags: startup entrepreneurship Filemail.com Send up to 2GB file without registering. Tags: storage email 7 Ways You Can Stop Wasting Food And Help Save The Earth “An introductory list of habits you can develop in your life that will help you to stop wasting food so as to save money and be environmentally friendly.” Tags: environment health Share This Related Posts Lifehack Digest for May 1 Lifehack Digest for April 30 Lifehack Digest for April 29 Lifehack Digest for April 14 Lifehack Digest for April 10 Lifehack Digest for April 2 Lifehack Digest for March 31 Lifehack Digest for March 14 Lifehack Digest for March 11 Lifehack Digest for March 7 Lifehack Digest for February 24 Lifehack Digest for February 22 Lifehack Digest for February 19 Lifehack Digest for February 14 Lifehack Digest for January 28 Original post by Lifehack Editors

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