Expert Advice
Wouldn’t you like to know where are the job creators at?
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Where are the job creators at?
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We’ve long been told that companies, large companies, are job creators.
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Big executives of large organizations create jobs.
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They’re the ones who create the jobs.
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Can we lay that myth?
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That lie to rest, please.
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All I see right now is big companies eliminating jobs.
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Job killers, job destroyers, not job creators.
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And I say this only half facetiously.
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I’m a I’m a business owner.
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I wouldn’t call myself a job creator.
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I have people that I work with, but I admit.
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I’m not looking to hire 10 people when I can hire one.
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My job as a as a business owner is to make sure the business keeps running.
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And yeah, you can get sort of carried away with that and and try to cut corners every which way.
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But the bottom line is a business is not a job creator.
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A business is trying to create as few jobs as possible.
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They should not get credit for creating the jobs.
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So who or what should get credit?
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You can make an argument for marketing.
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They do their job, marketing and sales, right?
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They’re bringing in the business.
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But I think you got to go even farther.
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You got to get to the root and the root, the job creators, the real job creators, drum roll, are consumers.
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Our buyers are people that get the product.
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They create the demand and that’s what makes a company hire, grow and build.
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So the real credit, the real job creator for the most part is us.
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And you know, most consumers are also workers.
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They’re also labor all the way up the ladder, right?
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We all buy stuff, but the power is really in the people in this case, in the people that buy stuff.
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Can we please give credit where credit is due?
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You know what I’m saying?
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All right, take care, everybody.
Today, at my daughter’s college, the President ordered everyone to stop studying, cut classes, and have a collective day of rest.
We work hard in the US (as students AND professionals), and I think we forget the importance of taking breaks and messing around. It’s not only good for mental health, it’s good for the bottom line, if that’s your priority…
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Yay, it’s Mountain Day today at Smith College, which means the president calls all classes off.
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This is spur of the moment.
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No classes.
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Everybody out on the quad, get on a blanket, throw a Frisbee, eat some quiche.
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It’s just time to relax and unwind and take a break.
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And sometimes you need somebody to really.
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Force you into that for you to realize how important it was and how much you needed a break.
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So hats off to the president of Smith College and any other leadership that realizes the importance of play.
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This kind of was a personal experience for me yesterday.
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So I’m I’m coaching my daughter’s soccer team and we had practice, but it was super hot.
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So I said, you know what?
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No practice.
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You’re all coming over my house.
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And we’re going on a giant water slide.
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And we did.
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And the bonding was through the roof.
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It was really cute.
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They were like chanting for each other.
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Give me an A, give me an L, you know, all that stuff.
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So it ended up being super productive.
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And I bring this up because we work a lot.
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We’re a working society and there’s a lot of benefits with that.
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But I think we forget the importance of stopping.
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And taking a break.
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And that’s not just for mental health.
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It actually helps the work.
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You become more creative, you become more relaxed, you become more collaborative.
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Happenstance can happen.
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There’s a lot of good things that happen outside of the traditional idea of what we call work that influences our work.
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So remember, take a break.
Most interviews start with the same question (which, actually, isn’t even a question):
“Tell me about yourself.”
Why?
Because open-ended questions are the best way to get to know someone. And, they’re the easiest way to allow someone to reveal themselves.
The question is simple enough, yet most people answer it incorrectly. Continue reading this entry »
Here’s an interview I did for a blogger, asking me some popular resume questions on behalf of her fellow graduates-to-be.
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Let’s start with the most common Resume question: Continue reading this entry »
1 or 2 pages?
This concern is valid, especially since lengthy resumes can make an applicant appear arrogant, unfocused, anxious, old, or overqualified.
So how do you know when to stop writing? Continue reading this entry »
There’s a widespread frustration held by people that their resumes’ cannot adequately describe “the real me”. I’ve challenged this notion with the following comments and suggestions: Continue reading this entry »
In my experience as a recruiter, career counselor, and professional resume writer, there’s no such thing as “no experience” — even for recent graduates and current students.
There’s plenty of other ways to fill space on a resume aside from listing paid work experience. Continue reading this entry »
An aggrieved job seeker, sick of hearing that functional resumes are the scourge of an HR person’s day, asked why this type of format is unfavorable. Here’s my response: Continue reading this entry »
