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A reader emailed me for help: "This year is really tough in the job market, especially for us international students. I’m looking for financial analyst,technical/engineering consulting and market/business analyst(IT/high tech related companies) jobs so that I could keep my engineering background and work on marketing side more or less. I just can’t fall in love [...]

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Before you think about how to best manage your time, I think you should improve your energy level. With a higher energy level, you will be much more productive, and have more time for other things. Manage your energy before managing your time. Do the following: Eat a nutritional breakfast — no McDonald breakfast, no [...]

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Over the Labor Day Weekend, I said "good bye" to a good friend, who was leaving the Unites States to work in China. In the past couple of years, several of my friends have left their cushy job in the States to work in China.The most common jobs for these US educated folks are venture [...]

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Have you been contacted by headhunter lately? How do you evaluate headhunters? Here is my checklist: is he doing recruiting full-time? I wouldn’t work with part-time recruiters. is he accessible? try to call your recruiter at different time of the day. Is he available? or you always get his voice mail? how long has he [...]

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"I didn’t know that a job could be so much more interesting and less stressful!" this is a comment from a former colleague. After college, she went to work for one of the largest Internet companies. It was political, stressful, and cut-throat. But, she persevered and stayed with the same company for more than 5 [...]

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I once had an "out of body" sort of experience. I was in a meeting with VP of Sales,CEO and several members of the senior management team. I was presenting a spreadsheet model I developed to figure out what price we should charge for a product that we were about to release. The VP of [...]

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Game 3 of the 2008 NBA Final between LA Lakers and Boston Celtics. LA Lakers won the game. After the game, one reporter asked Kobe Bryant: "In the final minutes, Ray Allen was guarding you one-on-one, and the game was on the line. What were you thinking?" "I need to go to work. It’s my [...]

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Frequent visitors of this site knows that I used to work for one of the largest Internet companies. As that company was transitioning from a small company to a large, Fortune-500 company, it had a lot of internal issues. Employees were frustrated. Growing pains. The company hired an organization development firm to develop a training [...]

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I once had a colleague. He was in his late 40′s, start-up veteran, experienced software developer, and a wise man. And he was a big Kansas Jayhawk fan because he was from Kansas and went to school there. When he heard people complained about things at work, he always said: "When I grew up in [...]

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Email question from a reader: I have been working as a product manager in a large enterprise software for 6 months. This is my first product management job (my first post-MBA job; and I came from a technical background, worked previously as a software engineer). Today my boss asked me to be the Software as [...]

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