A Federal Workforce Program Many People Overlook One of the most useful employment programs in this country receives surprisingly little attention considering how much help it can provide to somebody trying to rebuild a career. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, better known as WIOA, can help eligible workers obtain job training, education, career counseling,
The Difference Between Earning Well and Owning Well Many of us spend a good part of our working lives trying to figure out how to earn more money. We chase promotions, larger salaries, bonuses, impressive titles, and opportunities to work for companies whose names carry a little weight when we tell somebody where we work.
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Interviews Are More Than Answering Questions Most people walk into a job interview prepared to answer whatever questions somebody sitting across the table might throw at them. They rehearse their experience, accomplishments, strengths, weaknesses, leadership stories, and all the reasons they believe they are right for the job. That preparation matters, but a strong interview
The Myth of Having to Choose People have a way of telling us that we need to pick one lane and stay in it, as though a human being can only be one kind of person at a time. Be disciplined or relaxed, ambitious or content, tough or compassionate, intensely focused or easygoing, but somehow
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A Different Kind of Career Crisis For millions of baby boomers, those last working years were supposed to be fairly predictable after spending most of a lifetime building a career and preparing for retirement. They worked for decades, watched their salaries grow, put money aside, earned benefits, paid into Social Security, and figured they had
A Word With an Extraordinary History There is an old Greek word that traveled a mighty long road from everyday conversation into some of humanity’s deepest thinking about reason, creation, and God. That word is logos. Today, many of us recognize logos simply as “word,” especially from the famous opening of the Gospel of John:
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The Limits of External Qualifications When people start looking at somebody as a possible partner, we often begin with the things that are easiest to see. We notice the job, income, education, house, car, appearance, religion, social standing, and all those other signs that seem to tell us whether somebody has their life together. Those
Transformation Is Not Always About Inventing a New Identity A whole lot of modern self-development talk is built around the idea that we need to become somebody new. We are told to create a new identity, visualize a better future, repeat affirmations, and start acting like the life we want has already arrived. There can
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The World We Experience Look at your hand for a moment, or the table in front of you, the wall across the room, or that blue sky outside the window. Everything looks so immediate and solid that we naturally assume our eyes are showing us the world pretty much exactly as it exists. We see
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Before America Called Them Legends Where did Aretha Franklin learn how to walk into a room, open her mouth, and make everybody pay attention? Where did James Brown develop that timing, movement, showmanship, and almost unbelievable ability to control an audience? Where did a young Jimi Hendrix discover just how far he could push a
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