3 Easy Steps To Write A Purpose Statement For Your (Next) Job

One of the “5 C’s” we mentioned is getting from Point A to Point B in your career development.

To do so, you need to be purposeful about our job.

Here’s an easy exercise for figuring out the purpose statement of your current or next job.

1) List Your Expectations (Wants, Needs & Fears)

Write down all the expectations you have about job (I’m going to use the example of finding a new job in this article) — by “expectations,” I’m talking about the wants, needs and fears related to your next job.

For example, you might have the following expectations:

I want to be able to work from home one day a week.

I want to work in a neighborhood in San Francisco that has a lot of cafes and restaurants.

I want a job in the social gaming market. Continue reading →

My Annual Income Increased Every Time I Did One Of These 4 Things

Compensation is one of the “5 C’s” key to your career — no surprise there, right?

But it might surprise you to find out what increased my compensation. Towards that end, I plotted my compensation over my career to figure out what caused it to go up (and down).

A graph of my income over the last 22 years

Above is my income data from 1989 to the present (with the income (exact amounts hidden) in the vertical axis and the years in the horizontal axis).

The key takeaways on what caused my pay increases were: Continue reading →

The 3 Reasons This Rising Star Jumped To A New Biz (For Less Pay)

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I was reaching out to some San Francisco “A-Players” last week for the “The 5 C’s Of Why An A-Player Takes A New Job” article and one rising star, Mackenzie Mee-Lee, responded right after deadline about why she joined a new business (The Lions) recently.

Mackenzie Mee-Lee of San Francisco shared why she joined her newest employer: The Lions.

Here are Mackenzie’s own words Continue reading →

The “5 C’s” Of Why An “A-Player” Takes A New Job

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I first heard the term “A-Player” when I studied under Topgrading author Brad Smart. I took detailed notes during my workshop – after all, the legendary GE CEO Jack Welch had been one of Brad’s pupils.