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“Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential.”

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Marty Nemko is a career counselor and educational advisor, born on June 30, 1950. He is known for his unique approach to career planning and educational reform ideas. more

“You might want to keep trying to rise, using a path that builds on your natural strengths: sales, analysis, managing people, whatever, and keep asking for honest feedback. When you reach the point at which it feels clear you've topped out, revise your job description or take a step back. Up is not the only way.”

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“If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care most about: producing a new product, a cause, health, something unpopular but important, whatever. Next, get expertise in that, perhaps not at State U let alone private U but at You U: self-study, articles,, webinars, volunteering, etc. Then use your network rather than answering ads to land a launchpad job in that career.”

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“Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying.”

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“Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.”

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“I think people's feeling the need to be more dependent on others is caused more by the lack of good-paying jobs and by today's zeitgeist that insists it takes a village. That's disempowering although possibly true for many people.”

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“Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.”

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“It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.”

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“We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.”

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“The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus, teamwork etc. All that team-involved decision-making often leads to tepid solutions and a slow-moving organization.”

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“What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.”

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