MR. Career Guide

By definition, lessons learned are experiences broken-down form a project that should be actively taken into account in future projects....

Achieving financial freedom is one of my top goals. By definition financial freedom means that all of your expenses can be paid for...

The people that rise to the top seem to have goals. The ones who consistently want to learn and reinvent themselves. The professionals...

It's not uncommon to feel lost when you start a new job. Sometimes you may wonder how everyone around you knows so much. They use terms...

Find a mentor. Make it one of your top goals. But don't actively look for one. They will come into your life when you least expect it....

Get really good at what you do. Become an expert and a go to person for a particular set of skills. When you are first starting out, you...

"What's that clicking sound?" a senior stakeholder said in a meeting one summer. "Oh sorry about that," the coworker leading the meeting...

Professional services, aka consulting, is a good place to start a career or transition to a different field. I've been in the consulting...

"There are managers, and then there are leaders." A mentor once said to me after I was promoted into an executive position. "This company...

Sometimes the difference between landing a job and not, are two words: "thank you." I wrote about this topic in a post about how to reach...

Mr. Career Guide is a website about finding the right job, it’s not about quitting. But sometimes expectations differ from reality. That...

There’s nothing quite like college. Television, movies, blogs, or books won’t prepare you for what it will be like living on your own for...

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, if you can’t hold a conversation with someone, or are selfish and entitled, you won’t get as far as...

Resume Series 1: Resume Fundamentals To write the perfect resume, let’s look at the origins of the ticket to your future job first. This...

Four years go by and you’ve managed to take twenty years off the life of your liver. You’ve partied hard. By the time you reach senior...

Hearing your name called as you sit in the crowd. You head up the stage, look back at your family sitting in the stands and hold out your...

We’ve all had that feeling. The feeling where we need to have it all figured out. We look at our parents, our successful friends,...