This is not your ordinary career site. I focus on the three critical skills needed for you to find employment security: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build a successful career.
My viewpoint is of the worker toiling away in the common corporate cubicle. Not some rah-rah management site looking to motivate the mere mortals working in cubes.
Most people won’t take the time and effort to learn these skills. I call those that do Cubicle Warriors because they want to succeed both at work and in their life.
Landing Jobs
As the Great Recession has shown, competing for jobs is tough. Companies are not hiring and the ones that are find hundreds of applications for every position open. Competing for these jobs requires a lot more work, persistence and skill than even five years ago. Cube Rules spends a great deal of time on resumes, interviews, researching companies and how to seal the deal to get job offers.
Success on the job
Getting the job isn’t everything, of course. You have to succeed on the job because the job you have now is your most important career asset. This is because you can continue to produce results that other companies and hiring managers want. Whether it is products and articles on that critical first 30-days of starting a new job or knowing how to manage your manager, Cube Rules offers advice to help you succeed in the marketplace of work.
Career Success
Over the long haul, career success means that you don’t have job security, but employment security. Employment security is a hierarchy of needs showing an individual what it takes for employability in today’s job market. You can read the 20-page white paper that describes the hierarchy by signing up for my weekly newsletter. The newsletter has a job or career tip and my subscribers get first crack at all the new stuff sold here on Cube Rules and at a discount to boot.
You Need Advanced, Practical Career Advice
I have a long track record of personal and managerial accomplishment in multiple Fortune 100 companies. The advice you find here is the “nuts and bolts” stuff of working jobs and building your career. You can only help yourself by working on what you can control on your job about your job. And that’s where I focus my work.
We compete with everyone else on the planet for work. That requires new career skills from targeting companies for employment, writing effective resumes, interviewing, succeeding quickly in your new job and knowing when your new job will end — so you know when to look for another. All the while building your own skills and performance to increase opportunities for your career.
Welcome to my world. Let me help you become a Cubicle Warrior.