This is not your ordinary career site.
Most people think managing your career is about finding the next job or tweaking your resume. Other pundits hand out stupid career advice such as “looking busy” when there is nothing to do – and “spending more hours at work” while doing it. What a waste of your time.
My viewpoint here is of the knowledge worker toiling away in the common corporate cubicle. Not some rah-rah management site looking to motivate the mere mortals working in cubes.
The reality is your career consists of three interrelated areas – all of which need to hum to reach that vaulted status of Cubicle Warrior – a person who not only survives, but thrives working in a cubicle.
We all need to know how to go about landing jobs, how to succeed in our jobs, and know what to do to have a successful career. These are job skills needed by everyone working today.
The deal is this: most people won’t put these practices in place to help themselves be successful. And I’m not talking about wildly successful, making millions and moving up the proverbial corporate ladder. No, I’m talking about success in terms of being confident enough about your work and job seeking capabilities that you will advocate for doing the right thing for your job and career. So that you won’t settle for something that isn’t right for you. Plus, do some normal things left out of most career advice — like spending time with your family and friends so you have a life, not a life of work.
Landing Jobs
As the Great Recession has shown, competing for jobs has become a 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 right 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 all about building a business network that can provide you fanatical support and a personal brand that helps bring job opportunities to you. Plus building the financial security to survive the inevitable setback so you don’t lose the life you have built. Knowing that you can easily be employed and financially prepared for setbacks results in making good career choices for you and your work.
You Need Advanced, Practical Career Advice
I have a long track record of individual and managerial accomplishment in multiple Fortune 100 companies. The advice you find here has been called 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.
In short, you need advanced, practical advice on how to manage your career. Someone who recognizes you are competing with everyone else on the planet for work. You need a new set of career skills where your resume becomes your advanced marketing tool because shows how much you accomplish through your work. You need to know how to build your own skills and performance to increase opportunities for your career.
Welcome to my world. Let me help you become a Cubicle Warrior.
