Google yourself lately? More than 1 billion names are Googled every day, and more than 75 percent of HR departments are required to Google applicants. So if you’re applying to jobs and/or freelance gigs, it’s likely you're being Googled. One way to improve and impress these Googlers is by creating…

It’s not you. It’s the process that’s all wrong. — Today, it’s practically impossible to land a job online due to increased competition, the proliferation of questionable recruiting software and opaque, and often, highly biased, hiring processes. Why is it so hard to land a job online? Applying to jobs online is now mainstream. According to Glassdoor, the average number of applications for a job at a publicly traded company is about 250; the average number of people interviewed is five. That’s a 12.5% chance of getting the opportunity to even speak with someone.

This is my real story of how I went from underemployed waitress to top 1% of millennials in just 6short months. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed…

Modesty is a virtue that doesn’t pay the bills. — Modesty is a virtue that doesn’t pay the bills. Here’s a Trello board template for you to make a copy of, if you like this format I present to you. Since 2011, I have not so quietly boasted about my career-related accomplishments. Over the past seven years, I’ve landed 15 job interviews in 30 minutes, gone from underemployed dropout waitress to the top 1% of millennials and even designed a website…

I’m all about personal branding, but I never thought I’d be all about personal branding on Instagram. Yet, here I am writing a blog post on this very topic. When I first pitched this article idea, I envisioned myself teaching wannabe influencers and entrepreneurs how to become Instafamous in order…

We save planning, tracking, and interesting data for the office, but what gets measured gets managed (and improved), so why aren’t we setting and tracking goals for our personal lives too? — “Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can’t even answer the simplest questions. Where was I last week at this time? How long have I had this…

“Ask the right questions and the answers will reveal themselves.” — Oprah What should I do with my life? That’s a really scary question. When I started out in my career, I thought I needed a mentor to tell me exactly what to do, when to do it, and how…

A wise man once said, “Advice, like fruit, is best when it’s fresh.” That man was Jason Fried, founder of Basecamp, and I think he’s right. “Advice quickly decays, and 16-year-old advice is bound to be radioactive. Sharing a life experience is one thing (grandparents are great at this —…

According to HubSpot’s State of Inbound report, 26 percent of teams say their biggest marketing challenge is identifying the right tools for their needs. — I’m surprised that number isn’t higher. As a serial freelancer, I’ve worked with a lot of different teams (and experienced a lot of different marketing stacks) and I must say, the majority are either using tools for the wrong use cases, just hacking things together and/or simply have zero knowledge…