Below is a collection of resources which we have curated to help candidates, we are sure you will find them inspirational!
Wheel of Life and Work/Life Balance
Article by Thrive Global – How the “Wheel of Life” can help find balance
Podcast episode by Tony Robbins – The Six Human Needs
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” Aristotle.
Podcast episode by Rich Roll and Guru Singh – Cultivating Awareness to Awaken Your Higher Self
Mindset & Health
Video by Benjamin Zander – The Art of Possibility
Podcast episode by Dr Linda Tucker and General Rhonda Cornum – Resilience
US Government website on fitness – www.fitness.gov
Victorian Government website for better health – www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au
Action for Happiness is a charity for creating more happiness in the world – www.actionforhappiness.org
Podcast episode by Mark Divine and Dr Belisa Vranich – Breathing
Podcast episode by Rich Roll and David Goggins – Mindset
Your “Why?”
“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.” Oprah Winfrey.
Video by Unmistakable Creative and Elle Luna – The Crossroads of Should and Must
Technology Tools for Job Search
Article by Michigan State University – How has technology changed your job search?
Personal Branding
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Abraham Lincoln.
Article on Social Media Today – Personal Branding 101: What’s Your Story.
Article on Mashable – Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand
Article on Forbes – Personal Branding 101
Blog post and guide by BrandYourself – Control Your Online Reputation
Cover Letters, Resumes, LinkedIn Profiles
Article by me – Highlight Your Achievements on Your Resume
Article by me – Your LinkedIn Profile vs Your Resume – The Important Differences
Video by Harvard Extension School – How to Write a Great Resume and Cover Letter
Video by Stanford Graduate School of Business – How to Optimize Your Resume
Article on LinkedIn – Is your CV an interview generating weapon of mass employability?
Social Media for Job Search
Read my blog post – Which Social Media Platforms are Best for Personal Branding?
PDF document by several authors – Personal SEO Report
Blog post and guide by BrandYourself – Online Reputation Management – The Ultimate Guide
Blog post and guide by BrandYourself – Advanced Guide to Fixing Negative Search Results
Video by LinkedIn on their Help Centre page – Top Tips for Getting Started on LinkedIn
My blog post – LinkedIn basics
My video – Choosing the right LinkedIn profile picture
Article by Hubspot – How to Use LinkedIn: 35 LinkedIn Tips for Professional Networking, Business & Marketing
Article by Career Sherpa – Facebook is Great for Job Search
Article by Career Sherpa – What Makes a Good Google Profile?
Job Search Strategy, Tactics and The Hidden Job Market
“The job market is like an iceberg, the largest part is hidden.” Shireen DuPreez.
Article by Caroline Ceniza-Levine – The Employment Numbers That Really Matter to Job Seekers
Video by PBS – Lose your job? It may pay to announce it
Video by Natalie Ledbetter – How I got the best job ever without submitting a resume
Article by Nina Mufleh, Harvard Business Review – What a Year of Job Rejections Taught Me About Pitching Myself
Article by Robert Coombs – I Built a Bot to Apply to Thousands of Jobs At Once – Here’s What I Learned
Article by Ramit Sethi – How to Connect with Busy People
Article on Business Insider – 13 Email Templates You Can Use While Job Searching
Article on The Muse – How a Simple LinkedIn Message that took 2 Minutes to Write Landed Me My Dream Job
Video – How to Access The “Hidden Job Market in 2017
Networking
“Your network is your net worth.” Porter Gale.
“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they TRUST you, they’ll do business with you.” Zig Zigler.
Blog post – Book Recommendation: The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
Forbes article – The Number One Predictor of Career Success According to Network Science
TEDEd – Networking for the networking averse – Lisa Green Chau
Video and discussion guide by Herminia Ibarra on LeanIn.org – Building Effective Networks
Video and discussion guide by Deborah Gruenfeld on LeanIn.org – Power & Influence
Video by Inside Quest and Keith Ferrazzi – Relationships Are Everything
Article on Harvard Business Review – Learn to Love Networking
Video by Marie Forleo – Networking for Introverts with Susan Cain
Video by Yale University – Networking
Article on First Round Review – How to Become Insanely Well Connected
Recruiters
Article by BlueSteps – How to Best Approach Executive Recruiters as a Candidate
Article by Wall Street Journal – How to Find Recruiters in Your Niche
Interview Skills
Article by Tony Robbins – How to Look Confident – 5 Ways to Appear Self-assured
Video by Amy Cuddy at TED – Body Language Shapes Who You Are
Negotiation
Article by Caroline Ceniza-Levine – Ask For Even More: Five Items Even Savvy Professionals Forget to Negotiate For
Career Planning
“Find the right fit (strengths, passions, people). Extraordinarily successful executives lead careers that fully leverage both their strengths and their passions more than six times as often as the average employee.” James Citrin and Richard Smith in The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers.
Video by Whitney Johnson – Disrupt Yourself
Video by Rita McGrath – Careers in the Transient Advantage Economy
Tony Robbins
“The strongest force in the human personality is the need to remain consistent with how we define ourselves.” Tony Robbins.
Relationships
“Alone we can do so little – together we can do so much.” Helen Keller.
“The people you spend the most time with will change you in ways you cannot anticipate or ever fully understand after the fact. The most important choice of all is who you choose to surround yourself with.” Ben Casnocha.
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn.
Courage and Overcoming Fear
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” Plato.
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop and look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I loved through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill.
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin.
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up for our friends.” J.K. Rowling.
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King Jr
We got just one shot of life, let’s take it while we’re still not afraid.
Because life is so brief and time is a thief when you’re undecided.
And like a fistful of sand, it can slip right through your hands.
Rod Stewart from Young Turks
Body Language
According to Harvard Researcher Amy Cuddy, practicing power poses before walking into an interview can decrease stress-related hormones in your body and increase your confidence.I highly recommend watching this Amy Cuddy TED talk “Body language shapes who you are”
Personal Power
“You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away.” Debasish Mridha.
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” Margaret Thatcher.
“He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.” Lao-Tzu.
“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.” Oprah Winfrey.
“I’m finally ready to own my own power, to say, “This is who I am.” If you like it, you like it. And if you don’t like it, you don’t. So watch out; I’m gonna fly.” Oprah Winfrey.
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Abraham Lincoln.
Confidence
“We convince by our presence.” Walt Whitman.
“Presence manifests as confidence without arrogance.” Amy Cuddy.
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” Norman Vincent Peale.
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” Marilyn Monroe.
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde.
Leadership
“Effective leadership flows from effectively leading yourself.” Thai Nguyen.
Decision Making
Planning, Time Management, Productivity
“Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences” Rory Vaden.
“Successful people have all had to do things they didn’t feel like doing in order to get where they are.” Rory Vaden.
“Little hinges swing big doors.” W. Clement Stone.
“Focusing is about saying no.” Steve Jobs.
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot” Michael Altshuler.
Design Your Life
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” Seth Godin.
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn.
Managing Your Money During a Career Transition
“Hope for the best, save for the worst. Immediately cut all the expenses you can, hunker down and be very frugal with your money until you get another steady job.” Suze Orman.
More Quotes I Love
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter.
“The higher your perceived value, the further you’ll advance in your career, and the harder it will be to get rid of you in an economic downturn.” Stuart Diamond in Getting More.
“Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.” Mitzi Chandler.
“If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.” Reid Hoffman.
“But ‘elite’ is a tricky word, so let’s be careful to define our terms. In this case, the elite are not the rich or the one percent or the stars of stage and screen. In the historical context, it was those with the interest in and capacity to use the scientific and mechanical ideas in the Encyclopedie. It was they who set the groundwork for growth in the coming industrial era. While they may also have been rich, that wasn’t the point.” Entrepreneurs, Economic Growth, and the Enlightenment. Written by Tim Sullivan, Harvard Business Review
“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” Red Adair.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl.
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius.
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” John Ruskin.
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.” Albert Einstein.
“And the only way to do great work is to love what you do…Don’t settle.” Steve Jobs.
“Who dares wins.” Motto of elite military special forces units.
“Was I aware of the revolution I was creating? Not at all. One world was ending, another was being born. I was there, chance offered itself, and I took it.” Coco Chanel.
“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” Arthur Golden.
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell.
“As you meet your friends and new people, shift from asking yourself the very natural question of “What’s in it for me?” and ask instead, “What’s in it for us?” All follows from that.” Reid Hoffman.
“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn.
“If we keep doing what we’re doing we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.” Stephen Covey.
“The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself…The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.” Warren Buffett.
“I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures… I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.” Benjamin Barber.
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin.
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw.
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers.
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspirations and expectation.” Jack Nicklaus.
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt.
“If you will change, everything will change for you.” Jim Rohn.
“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment… He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.” Leonardo da Vinci.
Sporting Quotes
“The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.”– Ken Doherty
“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”–Paul “Bear” Bryant
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. ”– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”
“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”– Hank Aaron
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”– Michael Jordan
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”– Pat Riley
“If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.”– Mario Andretti
“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there. ”– Venus Williams
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way” – Babe Ruth
“It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.”– Evander Holyfield
“You’re only as strong as your weakest link.”– Phil Jackson
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”– Wayne Gretzky
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”– Dan Gable
Podcasts
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A rejection letter that @U2 received in 1979.
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