Marty Nemko
Marty Nemko
Martin Nathan Nemkois an American career coach, author, columnist, and public radio host specializing in career/workplace issues and education reform. The San Francisco Bay Guardian named Nemko "The Bay Area's Best Career Coach." U.S. News described him as "job coach extraordinaire." In its summit on education, ABC-TV called him "The Ralph Nader of Education." A regular contributor to Time.com and PsychologyToday.com, he has written over 3,000 published articles. For example, he wrote The Big Idea feature on WashingtonPost.com, the Working...
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I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.
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We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.
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If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care most about: producing a new product, a cause, health, something unpopular but important, whatever. Next, get expertise in that, perhaps not at State U let alone private U but at You U: self-study, articles,, webinars, volunteering, etc. Then use your network rather than answering ads to land a launchpad job in that career.
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Too often jobs are sitting in front of a terminal 8 hours a day, ... This one has a human component as well.
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I suspect that it's going to be tempting to throw out this resume because I don't have a bachelor's degree. I made a conscious choice to do my learning in the real world. I've done things that I never could have done if I had been sitting in a class. I'm a go-getter, but now we've reached the moment of truth. Will you interview me?
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If it's a technical position and they've got skill and competency requirements, you can't fake that,
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You want to be seen as an up-and-comer, not the stereotypical young slacker.
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I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.
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A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.
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You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.
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Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.
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Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.
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Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.
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As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.