Career Advice - Three Secrets To Telling Your Story For Career And Life Success

When was the last time you received a job promotion? You are doing a great job at work but everyone else seems to get the promotion you want. You may even start making excuses as to why you are not getting the career promotions you deserve. Well, I ask you the following question:

Did you ever tell your story?

The following career advice story will show you how to put your career on the fast track:

Recently, I was facilitating an oceanfront retreat for over two hundred employees of a university. During this session, I had the participants think of something or somebody they appreciate. I then asked for volunteers to share with the group whom or what they appreciate and why this is important to them.

Lonnie volunteered and stood up in front of the group to share his thoughts of appreciation. Lonnie explained that in his job he helps children improve their lives. He mentioned that whatever the lowest pay and title scale was, he was at that level. However, he said that was all right because of the joy he received from helping the children. You could hear and sense the passion in his words as he shared his experiences with the audience.

About a month later, Lonnie was in another workshop I was facilitating, and he asked to speak with me before the start of the session. I could see the excitement in his eyes as he explained what had happened to him since the oceanfront retreat. One week after sharing his story at the retreat, he received a call from the Office of Academic Affairs. Someone of influence, who was impressed with Lonnie’s speech and the way he told his story that day, wanted Lonnie to come in for a job interview. Lonnie went to the interview and received the job of Assistant to the Dean of Academic Affairs, with a substantial increase in pay and title. That was a career quantum leap from just a couple of weeks earlier.

So what happened?

Lonnie told his story for career success. Like so many of you, you are toiling away in your careers everyday and making a difference for your organization. But if no one knows about your successes, your passions, and your ideas, you will not achieve job and career success.

The following are three secrets to putting you on the fast track to career and job advancement:

1. It’s Not What You Know... - I’m sure you have heard the old saying, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” when talking about getting ahead in life. Well, in this new age of information and self responsibility, I am declaring that this saying is dead. Instead, I always say the following:

“It’s not what you know. It’s not who you know. It’s who knows what you know that creates success for you.”

There are people doing a great job everyday. There are people everyday that know people of influence. Yet, unless these people of influence know what you know (your skills, your knowledge, your ideas), you won’t be put in a position for success. Lonnie, during his two-minute presentation, let people of influence know that he was passionate about helping children at his job and he was willing to do it for little compensation. That’s a powerful message. It moved people to help him and make him a part of their team.

2. Prepare Yourself for Powerful Story Telling – When the opportunity comes to tell your story, will you be prepared? Lonnie was prepared and made the most of his opportunity. However, I have seen many opportunities vanish for a person to tell his/her story because of the fear of speaking in front of a group or in a meeting. Whether it’s in a job interview, monthly meeting, or at a conference, have the confidence to tell your story. You may never get another opportunity to do so. Have the courage to work on your presentation skills. There are various resources for improving your presentation skills. You can take a class, join Toastmasters, or hire a presentation skills coach.

Also, outline what you will tell in your story. Think of your successes and how you achieved those successes. Thinks of the challenges you faced and how you overcame them. Express the joy you felt while achieving your goals. Relate how your activities helped you develop your skills, your creativity, and your determination. Let your passion show in your story.

3. Create Opportunities to Tell Your Story – When Lonnie volunteered, he created an opportunity to tell his story. How can you create opportunities to tell your story? You can volunteer for job-related assignments and give reports during management briefings. You can be active in workshops or seminars and tell your story among a variety of people that normally might not be exposed to your story. Join various associations and groups and tell your story. This is a great way to network among people who are active in their industries. Contribute your story to your in-house publication, local newspaper, or magazine. Create a blog or website and tell your story. The more you tell your story to a wide variety of people, the greater the opportunity to increase your success.

Apply these powerful career advice secrets and put your career advancement on the fast track. Tell your story and others will sit up and take notice.

Mail Services Benefit Any Business


Mail, sometimes overflowing mailboxes and desks, is an essential part of modern business communication. All businesses, no matter what their type, will receive mail. Bills, payments, invoices, merchandise, letters, and much more are sent from and delivered to businesses all around the world.

While sending and receiving mail may seem easy enough, it isn’t always, especially for businesses. This is why the development of mail services is important. Mail services being offered to a business are most commonly being provided by an individual or a company who specializes in offering a healthy connection between businesses and their clients. There are a number of features that could be included in a mail service package. The features being offered will all depend on the individual or company who is offering the mail service. While the features being offered may vary there are a number of features that are commonly found in a mail service.

Professional mail services are likely to offer a new business mailingaddress. This business address is typically in the same city where the mail services are being offered. A new business mailing address is a great way to up the appearance of your business. Having a mailing address in New York City is much more glamorous than one in a small town whose name is hard to pronounce. A new business mailing address is a great way to provide small business owners or contractors who work out of their home with a business address that is not also a home address. This could help to make a business appear more professional.

When a business gets a new mailing address the mail will go to that address. This means that somehow that mail must make from the mailing address to the physical address. This is why mail forwarding is one of most popular and most needed of all mail services. The individual or company running a mail service business will receive your mail and then forward it to your home or business.

Mail forwarding can be done all year round; however, it also possible to do it on special occasions. Instead of having important documents sitting at the post office many business owners prefer to have their mail held by a professional. Once a business owner returns from their vacation or business trip they can have the mail sent to their home or business.

In addition to forwarding mail to the home or business of a business owner, it is also possible to have mail sent from the address. If you need to use the same address it may be possible for you to send mail to mail service company and then have them forward it the recipient. This will require extra postage, but many business owners use this method to only have one business address instead of multiple ones.

A business address and mail forwarding are just a few of the mail services you may find beneficial to your business. Business mail is an important thing; therefore, you shouldn’t let your mail services be handled by just anyone.

Careers And Recruitment


A major part of every working person’s life is their career and career progression. It ranks alongside family, health and finance as the most important considerations of almost the entire population. Therefore, many people need and use every tool, help and piece of advice they can get in order to further their careers. As well as progression through a pre-defined career path such as the medical or law industries, people can stay within their own sector or have a complete career change and tackle something completely different. The choice of career and employment throughout the world is huge, with increasing opportunities to work abroad and in various sectors throughout someone’s employment lifetime.

The internet is becoming an increasingly important part of career advice for many, many people. Lots of information on careers and job vacancies is available on the internet as well as the fact that people can get advice and help on the next steps to take in their career progression online. The use of search engines to look for specific jobs, employers and recruitment agencies is very helpful. Almost all recruitment agencies in the UK have an online presence and advertise all their vacancies online on their websites. Users of these agencies and websites can browse all careers that match their skills and some sites even have skill matching tools that does this automatically. This helps people hugely with time management when searching for a new career. Many of these websites also offer online career advice such as how to construct a curriculum vitae correctly, how to write a cover letter and also interview tips and techniques. These websites can be used as the first step in the procedure and can be followed by contact with recruitment consultants or prospective employers, in order to further the process.

It is possible for some people to train online using remote study areas such as the Open University. Establishments such as these allow people to obtain qualifications as advanced as a degree through studying completely online. E-learning is an area of huge potential with a lot of room from growth and expansion. As with many aspects of the internet, online learning will help people who have tight schedules and little time to devote to training.

Another benefit of the internet for people who are looking at progressing or changing their job is that they can easily and quickly gain other peoples opinions and ideas. Recruitment consultants, business leaders and people employed in many disciplines use online job forums to discuss aspects of employment, recruitment and career progression. Through these forums and discussion points people can find out the advantages and disadvantages of various jobs and careers and also what the reality of working in a particular sector is like. They can also gain help and advice on how to tackle a particular recruitment or career issue.

To summarise, the internet is rapidly becoming an important tool in employment, careers and recruitment. All people interested and involved in these areas can benefit from using the internet to help them, whether it is for training, learning, finding a job or finding a suitable candidate for a job.

Changing frequency of newspaper publication is not a sign of the apocalypse

The number of newspapers that have reduced their publication frequency in response to market changes and economic conditions continues to rise.

This year the Times-Herald in Newnan, Georgia shifted from 7 days a week to 5 days per week. The New Orleans Times-Picayune moved to 3-day per week schedule, as has The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., and many papers in the Advance Publications group.

In doing so, the papers are bolstering their digital publications and producing in physical form only on days that most interest retail advertisers. From the financial standpoint, these moves make a great deal of sense.

Reactions to the changes have ranged from disbelief to resignation in the journalism community. Many have bemoaned the loss of dailies and argued non-dailies cannot possibly serve their communities as well. That argument is problematic, of course, because there have typically been 3-4 times more weeklies than dailies in the U.S. and many have done far better jobs covering towns and neighbourhoods than dailies.

The assumption that 7-day per week publication is, and has been, the norm is another example of ahistorical and baseless views spread about the industry these days. In 1950 less than one-third of newspapers (549 papers) published a Sunday edition and the number with Sunday editions peaked at 917 in 2000, being published by just two-thirds of all papers. Saturday editions were not the norm until well after mid-twentieth century. The appearance of high frequency daily publication was fueled by the demands of advertisers.

If one considers the definitions of daily publication one finds that it is nowhere near 7 days per week. The internationally accepted definition of a daily newspaper is a paper published only 4 days per week.

This is not to say that the industry is without problems. The changes in publication frequency do reveal how the inordinate dependence on advertising revenue has shaped the industry and how wealth continues to be stripped from newspapers.

The changing frequency should be seen as part of the evolutionary shift toward digital only publication--a shift that is occurring at a varying pace in different types of papers and markets. But it does not mean that journalism in print, in print and digital combinations, and in digital-only forms cannot serve community needs.