by Rick Christensen | Dec 20, 2018 | Career Transition, Rick Christensen, Successful People, Uncategorized
Your job search is a life changing event filled with many emotions especially at this holiday time. Your normal routine is non-existent. You will consistently be forced out of your comfort zone and you will experience rejection daily. A job search can also be...
by Rick Christensen | Dec 13, 2018 | Interviewing, Job Search, Rick Christensen
Adults say the Funniest Things – especially in interviews. Undoubtedly a high-pressure situation – both candidate and hiring manager are under strain to appear professional but friendly, confident but not arrogant, unique but not weird. Unfortunately, it...
by Rick Christensen | Dec 6, 2018 | Career Development Partners, Job Search, Rick Christensen
Knowing how to research triggers and utilize them in your job search will help you land a job faster than anything else you could do. A trigger is an occurrence that initiates someone to take an action. If you are in a job search a trigger is something that might...
by Rick Christensen | Nov 22, 2018 | Rick Christensen, Success, Successful People
I was recently re-acquainted with this story. I could not find an attribute for the original author, but I thought it was worth sharing. A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. “Who would like this $20...
by Rick Christensen | Nov 15, 2018 | High Performance, Job Success, Rick Christensen, Successful People
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. – Louis Pasteur Tenacity, the ability to keep going when all signs point to quitting. We can find hundreds of stories of people who didn’t...
by Rick Christensen | Nov 8, 2018 | Rick Christensen
Early in my career I worked with an engineer who had a picture of toad on his desk. This was a huge, fat, green, slimy, wart infested toad. It had to be one of the ugliest creatures on earth. The caption read, “Eat a live toad first thing in the morning, the...
