Author: Tim Herrera Source: NY Times A little more than three years ago, I had to put together this presentation at work. It was on a topic I wasn’t very familiar with, but I took it on anyway, figuring I could get up to speed and deliver something useful and productive. Friends, if you hadn’t guessed yet, I bombed it. I wasn’t prepared enough, I missed a few major points, and I didn’t give myself enough time to complete it. Not my greatest work. But I have such fond memorie

There are so many things that can kill the careers of good, hard-working people. Honest mistakes often carry hard-hitting consequences. We usually only hear about the more egregious examples, such as when Yelp employee Talia Jane became an Internet sensation for writing a blistering post criticizing the company’s low pay and its CEO. To no one’s surprise, she quickly found herself out of a job. Most people don’t go down in a blaze of glory like Talia Jane; they kill their car

I stared at my inbox, my face burning with anger and my eyes blurring with rage-tears. I read my fourth rejection email. My fourth rejection email that day. I blinked away my tears, determined to not actually cry, and resisting the urge to throw my computer on the floor. I wanted to work, I needed a job to pay rent, and I was starting to feel like a complete failure. How was I supposed to come out of this spiral? I don’t do the “follow your passion,” or the “your vibe attract

You spent ages tailoring your resume, you put your full effort into writing a top-notch cover letter and you put your most charming self forward in your job interview. They’d be silly not to hire you on the spot, right? Unfortunately, even when you feel like you’ve done everything you possibly could have to land a job, it doesn’t always pay off. This doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s anything wrong with you or you’re entirely unemployable, so there is no point beating you

Author: Rachel Grumman Bender Source: Learnvest When publicist Jennifer B.* was just starting out in her career, her job was so demanding that she tried to take a few shortcuts. “I was pitching all the major beauty and fashion publications, and I cut-and-pasted the same pitch into about 50-plus emails,” she recalls. “I ended up addressing two top editors with the wrong names, so it was clear I was ‘mass’ pitching. It made me look incompetent and lazy. Huge mistake.” Whether y

With millennials making millions in the tech industry or inventing world-changing devices every Monday morning, failure can be a particularly bitter pill to swallow for young entrepreneurs. But between the challenge of finding a job in today’s economy and the entrepreneurial startup battle cry of our generation, it’s a risk many young people are taking. When you start a business the odds are against you from the get-go — and statistically, most businesses fail. If your ventur

Written by Farnoosh Brock for ProlificLiving.com Guess What? Failure is Not Bad. At All. Here’s the problem. And this is a big problem that if you don’t wrap your brain around and totally get it now, it is going to delay your happiness and success for a very long time. Are you ready? Here goes: Failure Is Not Bad. I know you’ve heard this before but you haven’t believed it yet, have you? Because until you do, it’s no good knowing it. If you want to stop reading now, just do