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getting a job?
EXECUTIONI also wish you the best of luck with your venture AE. Just remember a few things: - Your customer is the hiring company, not the job seeker. Unless your system is free to use for the hiring company, and even then they will *still* have to see some significant benefit to using your system. Are...- Contrarian
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- Forum: Process and Execution
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getting a job?
EXECUTIONHi AE, You may well be able to make a business out of this, but for "reinventing hiring" - I'm skeptical. Internet job boards are everywhere but they're only responsible for less than 4% of all hires. For areas where supply of candidates exceeds demand, they cause the problem you mention of...- Contrarian
- Post #3
- Forum: Process and Execution
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Do you have to give up your social life to become rich?
HOT! PEOPLEReally depends on your outlook. You could view it as "giving up" various aspects of your life, in the sense that you're depriving yourself somehow. Or you can look at it as making the conscious decision to spend your finite and precious time investing in what matters most. There was a time not...- Contrarian
- Post #13
- Forum: Managing People, Relationships
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So you want to move to Scottsdale?
MEETUPSYou would be absolutely spot on, had I the foresight to save money before recently or I were running an already-covering-my-expenses location independent business. :) As it is I need to be in at least a similar timezone to my clients, and I deal B2B so tourist visas aren't going to cut it. I...- Contrarian
- Post #136
- Forum: Networking and Meet-Ups
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So you want to move to Scottsdale?
MEETUPSI would so be in for this if it wasn't for that whole immigration thing. Great idea.- Contrarian
- Post #59
- Forum: Networking and Meet-Ups
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helping teach my team to sell products
I remember reading in a sales book something that always stuck in my mind. Can't remember the specific store or details, but apparently this one simple change exploded their sales figures. Usual options: - Leave the customer alone and let them look around - Ask them if they need help with...- Contrarian
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- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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When your environment is poisonous to your health
Yeah. Costs are high and quality of life is low. I can walk to pretty much anywhere in Bristol I want to go in 20 minutes from my front door, the nightlife is better and more accessible than London and there's amazing countryside on the doorstep. Funnily enough everyone who comes to visit wishes...- Contrarian
- Post #19
- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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When your environment is poisonous to your health
Yup. Where do you live? Oh it's definitely Fastlane or die here. No salary is ever going to get you where you want to be, especially as we get completely screwed on salary taxes but corporate tax rates are reasonably competitive. Lisbon looks like a good place to go to save money and get...- Contrarian
- Post #16
- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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When your environment is poisonous to your health
Exeter for a few years, now in Bristol. Yeah, winter has a huge effect on my mental health. It's almost like a climate-dependent manic depression. Bristol is a pretty good compromise for opportunity vs lifestyle...but it's really expensive to live here nowadays and getting moreso. My rent's...- Contrarian
- Post #11
- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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When your environment is poisonous to your health
Yup. I remember growing up in (suburban) London, thinking that the place was a total dump but like all capital city folk who haven't ventured far being brainwashed into feeling that it must obviously be the centre of the universe. Dirty, grey, inconvenient to get anywhere, everything so sprawled...- Contrarian
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- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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Interesting Turning Point!
MINDSETThat's a damn good salary for an inside sales job in the UK.- Contrarian
- Post #3
- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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Paleo Lifestyle
HOT!I'd be lying if I said I followed it religiously, as I loves me some carbs and beer... But paleo works brilliantly for me. So, to be fair, does a whole foods diet of fresh meat/fish with vegetables and brown rice etc. I've gone months at a time eating basically zero carbs and never felt better...- Contrarian
- Post #413
- Forum: Health and Fitness
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My employers new stance on cell phones.....its YOUR responsibility
Nope, it's an imprisonable offence. It's also impossible to prove sadly.- Contrarian
- Post #33
- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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My employers new stance on cell phones.....its YOUR responsibility
My previous employer remote-wiped my personal phone out of vengeance (which, at the time, I didn't even know was possible), without any warning whatsoever or even telling me that they'd done it. Since then I will never, ever use my own phone for a company's business again.- Contrarian
- Post #26
- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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6 Figures in 12 Months! How to Free Yourself from Wage Slavery
HOT!Nice work on taking the plunge. Marketing is increasingly important in recruiting these days, as buyer mindsets change to reflect the free information world we live in. And most recruiting companies suck at it, or don't do any at all (like the one I work for now). So good work on using that...- Contrarian
- Post #47
- Forum: General Business Discussion
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6 Figures in 12 Months! How to Free Yourself from Wage Slavery
HOT!I've little experience working with junior positions, and companies do make a successful model out of that but you have to bear in mind the supply, demand and competition side of things. It's a lot easier for companies to recruit graduates directly than it is mid-senior level engineers...- Contrarian
- Post #44
- Forum: General Business Discussion
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6 Figures in 12 Months! How to Free Yourself from Wage Slavery
HOT!There's various ways to skin a cat. And to some degree it depends on the market. But I've set up new desks from scratch several times over the years, and by far the quickest way to gain traction quickly is by looking for the rockstars first. If you're dealing in the senior end of the market...- Contrarian
- Post #42
- Forum: General Business Discussion
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6 Figures in 12 Months! How to Free Yourself from Wage Slavery
HOT!May I take the opportunity to add, if anyone does decide to act on Iwokeup's information, these three books are invaluable: Search and Placement! A Handbook for Success - Larry Nobles Real Recruiting! Winning Search Strategies - Steve Finkel Breakthrough! Exploding the Production of Experienced...- Contrarian
- Post #24
- Forum: General Business Discussion
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6 Figures in 12 Months! How to Free Yourself from Wage Slavery
HOT!Too right. You'd be amazed at some of the conversations that go on behind closed doors in these wideboy-filled churn and burn recruiting firms. Like the training session we had on "How to lull candidates into a false sense of security", making them trust you so that you can mine them for...- Contrarian
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- Forum: General Business Discussion
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6 Figures in 12 Months! How to Free Yourself from Wage Slavery
HOT!This. I'd also add, depending on your market, it's a (timezones aside) location independent business model. I'm going to set up a Hong Kong Ltd company, virtual office, HK phone numbers etc (hell you can get a bunch of "offices" around the world and have them all redirect to your phone if you...- Contrarian
- Post #18
- Forum: General Business Discussion
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