What Employers Want
Do you have what employers want? That’s a tough question. After all, different jobs require different skills, different knowledge and different experience. It seems like there’s roughly half trillion answers to the question of “what employers want.”
But there is one thing that holds true across all jobs and industries. I just wrote an article for BusinessWeek on new research showing overwhelmingly that a certain kind of person sees way more career success than other kinds of people. In short, some people believe they can make things happen, and others believe that things happen to them. The first group believes that the outcome of their life and career is more or less in their own hands, and … [ Read More ]