How often have you needed help or advice but refrained from asking? What stops you? The fear of rejection? Embarrassment? The conviction that the best way to do something is to do it yourself?

We all use social media so much it’s become part of our everyday lives. Personal uses for social media aside, have you thought about how social media can help or hinder your career?

You worked like crazy to land that interview. So did all the other people who got called in! Your next job is to set yourself apart from the pack. Here are six things you can do to ensure you move up to the front of the line

When listing references, it can be very tempting to just put down a bunch of people you worked with briefly and hope the prospective employer doesn’t actually contact them.

Whether you want change or the whole world or simply your corner of it, you have the capacity to be that change. To make that change.

If you’ve got a great new idea that you want to present to your boss the last thing you want to do is explain it over email.

Whether we’re looking for a job, trying to get a creative project off the ground or have discovered the new greatest thing that’s going to change the world we all know how important it is to build a network.

It’s okay to be nervous during an interview. Everyone is. They key to getting past that nervousness so your best most competent self can shine through is setting the mental stage for it before hand.

The only benefit from every job isn’t simply the potential is has to become a bullet point or paragraph on your resume. Sometimes it’s about the experiences you accumulated while you were there.

So often we hear It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Generally that’s taken in the context of tone of voice and body language, but oftentimes the specific words you use to express yourself are just as important.

We always have the choice between going right or left, but the way most of us live our lives, it’s as if we have no choice at all. We do virtually the same things over and over again, day after day, week after week simply because it’s become our habit.

Instead of always being at the beck and call of the email beast, feed it your time and on your terms

The one constant inside and outside of everything that happens to you, is you. So it makes sense, to fix your problems, you need to reassess how you approach them.  

Some days simply start out badly. You wake up a little late, you miss your bus, the coffee shop accidentally gets your order wrong, then you spill the coffee on your shirt.

The only people who used to include a photo on their resume were actors and models, but over the past few years we’ve been seeing more and more resumes headed with a photo. Should you be rushing to include a head shot on yours?

If you climb ten flights of stairs you will be fatigued (most of us anyway).  We all know about physical fatigue because it’s so easy to see the cause and effect. Spend twenty minutes on a treadmill and there’s no question what tired you out. Did you also know you can get decision fatigue? 

You are half way to getting your new job! After getting the call for the first interview you ensured you found out everything you could about the company and the people interviewing you. You practiced what you were going to say and once you got face to face you aced it! They like you! They also like a few other people. A second interview is in order.

Day in and day out you put so much into your career and your life, and sometimes you simply can’t keep up. People are asking too much, you’re behind, you’re overwhelmed, one more request or demand and you feel like you might just boil over altogether.

You might be inclined to wonder how the advice of someone how lived in the first century AD could possibly pertain to someone living in the twenty first century. The fact is, all the advances we’ve made over the past two thousand years affect the outside of our lives. How we travel, how we acquire and share information, how we communicate etc, but none of that affects how we tick internally.

We are always being told to “chase” our passion. And as amazing as it is to be on the run following that great, inspiring passion of ours, it would be even more amazing if we could catch it!