Prior Posts

Sometimes, no matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to come up with a compelling topic to write about, so I keep a notebook of ideas to help me out in the lean times.  This was one of those times.  I checked my list and found lots of good ideas, but none that could…

We enter the job market for many reasons.  On one end of the spectrum, we may have risen to the top, achieved all we could hope for, and there is no longer an avenue for promotion and no opportunity for new challenges.  On the other end of the spectrum, we were fired for poor performance…

As the Jefferson Airplane once wisely said: “Life is change.”    Something disturbing happened to me last week. My lovely wife Donna and I booked a flight from San Francisco to New York to visit family and friends. We were scheduled to arrive at Newark Airport on a Tuesday evening. Not wanting to drive into Manhattan during rush-hour, we thought…

THE FIRST P:  PREPARE PROPERLY The big day had finally arrived.  I was sitting for the NYS Bar examination.  I was so nervous, I was shaking, but I knew that it would be OK because I was prepared.  Boy, was I ever!  Not being the greatest test-taker, I may have overcompensated a bit.  I cleared…

Cold calls.  We hate makin’ em.  We hate gettin’ em.  And yet they make the world go round.  Modern technology has enabled the rise of the robocall.  “Spoofing,” or stealing a phone number to make you think you are receiving a call from a known entity, is becoming more and more prevalent.  Add this to…

How does one get their business message across?  A pithy elevator pitch and a business card is a good start.   My lovely wife Donna is an indefatigable, relentless networker.  She can work a room like you would not believe.  Consequently, we get invited to all sorts of networking events hosted by local chambers of…

Several months ago, I wrote an article about how success is achieved through perseverance https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/breakthrough-power-perseverance-dlr-associates-recruiting/.  It told the story of my battle with the New York Times crossword puzzle, and how I completed it (taking two weeks, no cheating) through sheer persistence.  Coming off of that adrenaline high, I started a new puzzle, KNOWING that…

A few weeks ago, I received a job order from a small financial institution that looked as if it was scratched out on a napkin and hastily put into a Word document.  It didn’t go much beyond “Jr. Compliance Officer needed to assist CCO with general compliance duties.”  Not even a salary range.  I emailed…