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Marty Nemko
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Find a Career
- Digging up a Career's Downsides
- Eight Keys to Making the Most of Your New Job
- Commencement clichés, debunked
- My Favorite Career Websites
- Biotech Careers: Smart Choices...even if you don't have a PhD
- My Seven Favorite Professions
- US News & World Report's, Best Careers, 2007 by Marty Nemko
- Conquer Your Fear of Rejection
- Best Careers for Your Personality Type
- New College Graduate's Career Kit
- U.S News' Best Careers, 2008
- Landing a Government Job
- Should College Lecture Clases Be Replaced by Software?
- Overcoming Procrastination (June, 27, 2008 version)
- How Shunning Materialism Dramatically Improved My Life
- A Career Survival Kit
- Hot Jobs in Hard Times
- U.S. News' Best Careers, 2009 (I selected them and wrote the profiles)
- Doing Well By Doing Good
- Casting Your Lot With China
- My Predictions and Trends for 2011
- Hot Careers and Overhyped Careers
- Transcript: Work with Marty Nemko: Oversupply of STEM and Law School Graduates. Under-the-Radar Careers
- My Ratings of Popular Careers
- My Predictions for 2006
- Choosing a Career Counselor or Coach
- Making the Most of a Career Counselor or Coach
- Finding the Courage to Change Jobs
- Self-Coaching
- In Praise of the Anonymous Achievers
- Clues to Your Ideal Career
- An Easier Route to Changing Careers
- When You Want to Make a Radical Career Change
- Do What You Love and Starve?
- Career Passion Requires Foreplay
- Is Up the Only Way?
- Picturing Your Future
- How To Build Variety into Your Career
- Try This Virtual Career Counselor
- A Simple Way to Find a Career
- Pick an Industry, Any Industry
- When You Have No Skills, No Education, No Time
- Career Launchpads
- The Right Way to Volunteer
- So You Really Want to Be a Millionaire
- Where The Jobs Are
- No-School Cool Careers
- Are Management Careers Overrated?
- Become a Tutor?
- Neat Niches for Photographers
- A Career for Information Junkies
- An Easier Way to Write a Bestseller
- Career Advice for Dabblers
- The Career I'd Choose if Starting Over
- Making a Living While Making a Difference
- A Little-Known Career on the Golf Course
- Want to Make Movie Sound Effects?
- Want to Help Sick Kids?
- Want to Be a Right Hand Person?
- The Most Beneficial Field?
- NEMKO'S RULES: A contrarian approach to finding career contentment
- Can You Become a Non-Starving Artist?
- Do What You Love and Starve?
- A Little-Known Career for Caring Types
- Here's a Career That's Really Cooking
- How About a Career Foiling Hack Attacks?
- What Makes a Successful Salesperson?
- An In-Demand Career for Crafty Types
- My New-Client Questionnaire
- Tips for Aspiring Actors
- The Next Big Thing
- Could You Manage a Career on Campus?
- Electrician: Watt a Shocking Career
- A Cool Career for Counselor Types
- Online Marketing: A Banner Career
- Speech Therapy: A Well-Spoken-Of Career
- Surgical Technology: A Cutting-Edge Career
- Sales: A Lucrative Career for Those Without a College Degree
- Chiropractic: A Field to Back Away From?
- Serendipity Can Happen
- What to Ask in an Informational Interview
- A Fast Way to Check Out a Career
- A Guy With Spine
- If I Had But One Word of Career Advice to Give
- Options for Unhappy Lawyers
- Immigration Reform's Winners and Losers in the Workplace
- How Women Can Earn More
- Careers in the Age of Terrorism
- Globalization-Resistant Careers
- When You're Laid Off
- Making a Living as a Writer
- The Worst Career Advice?
- Slacker Careers
- Career Planning Clues from the State of the Union Address
- Should You Be a Lawyer?
- Choice Careers for Liberal Arts Graduates
- Doing Well by Doing Good
- Rebuilding Your Career after a Disaster
- The Workers I Most Respect
- Habla Ingles?
- Realistic Dreams
- Finding Security in an Insecure World
- Lessons from the Learning Annex
- A Dozen Resolutions for the Career-Minded
- Holiday Gifts for the Career-Minded
- Launch a Career with a Holiday Retail Job?
- A Different Approach to Career Counseling
- MY NINE CAREERS: Lessons Learned
- Summer Reading for the Career-Minded
- Making a Career Change...Fast
- Status is a False God
- Offshoring and You
- Think Big in 2004
- My 2004 Predictions
- Offshore-Proof Your Job
- One Person's Path to Riches
- What's Ahead?
- The Joy Of Lowered Expectations
- Making a Radical Career Change
- The Seven Steps to a Better Job
- Off To Join the Circus
- The Truth About Teaching
- Career Seekers' Complaints...and My Responses
- Unsung Heroes
- The Case for Economic Recovery
- Forget Passion...For a While
- Career Advice I'd Give My Child
- What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up: 14 Questions to Help You Figure it Out
- So You're Thinking About a Creative Career
- What Are You Good At, Really?
- Passion Finder
- CosmoGirl! Guide to Your Career
- How Worthy is Your Career?
- Do you really need a creative job?
- Ideas for Boomer Career Changers
- Cool Careers for Dummies Introduction (Excerpt)
- Searching for a Career - Jennifer's Tale
- What Really Works (Cool Careers for Dummies Excerpt)
- Cool Careers (Excerpt)
Make the Most of a Job
- A Very Short, Very Advanced "Course" in Time Management
- Eight Keys to Making the Most of Your Job
- Know Thyself: Key to Career Success
- Seven Ways to Make Your Job More Fun
- You Have an Idea. Now What?
- Making Work Fun...well, more pleasant
- Recession-Proof Your Career
- "Help! I Hate My Job"
- Being Distinctive in an Average Workplace
- Six Secrets of Top Communicators
- From Great to The Greatest
- Career Advice for Men
- The Smartest One in the Room: Tips for you..and for dealing with you
- Your First Days on the Job
- Getting Your Job Tailored to Fit You
- "I'll Coach You if You'll Coach Me"
- Six Questions to a Happier Worklife
- How Do I Get So Much Done?
- Propose a Special Project
- Do Your Hobby at Work
- Cube Comforts
- Is Balance Overrated?
- Is The Customer Always Right?
- Is Your Work Station Safe?
- Does Your Office Make You Sick, Literally
- WORKING WHILE UGLY: Career Advice for the Unattractive
- When Is it Time to Quit?
- Overcoming a Job Failure
- Beware of Superstars' Advice
- Make It Fun
Education & Training
- The Case Against Graduate School
- We Send Too Many Students to College
- The Best School Strategy for Bright Kids?
- What Do They Have in Common?
- Better Than Going Back to School?
- Just-In-Time Learning: Free!
- When Young People Mentor Older Ones
- College: America's Most Overrated Product (abridged)
- Is That College Worth It?
- How Some Colleges Deceive Students, Parents
- The Next Book You Should Read
- Thinking About Grad School? Think Again
- Ode to the Tutor
- The World's Shortest Course in Public Speaking
- A Fast Way to Get Berkeley Onto Your Resume
- The World's Shortest Sales Training Course
- Finding the Right College or Grad School
- Finding Money for College or Grad School
- Secrets to Finding Great Instructors
- The World's Shortest Writing Course
- Don't Necessarily Buy Experts' Advice
- Should You Go Straight to College?
- We Send Too Many Kids to College
- Maximizing the Investment in Your Child's College Education
- The Sagas of Mary and Sandy
- An Open Letter to College Presidents
- Why Your Kids Shouldn't Go to Harvard (even if they could get in)
- When You Have to Learn Something New
- A Late Adopter's Guide to Blogging
- How Good Are You at Running a Meeting?
- How I Write How-To
- CosmoGirl Guide to College (abridged ): Teens' Top College Fears and How to Conquer Them
- I'll Turn You Into an Out-of-the-Box Thinker Yet
- Choosing a College or Graduate School
- How I Write My Column
- The World's Shortest Course in Public Speaking
- Sure You Should Go to College?
- Degree Proliferation: Protecting Yourself from the Fallout
- Beware Going Back to School
- Sure You Should Go to College?
- Up Your Grades: How to Turn Those Bs and Cs into As and Bs---In a Hurry
- Instead of State U or Private U, Consider You U
- Key to Success: Unlearn some lessons you learned in school
- Common Conundrums: an excerpt from "The All-in-One College Guide"
- The Sagas of Mary and Sandy: an excerpt from "The All-in-One College Guide"
Negotiation
- What Are You Worth?
- Guilt-Trip Your Boss into a Raise
- The Key to Successful Salary Negotiation
- Should You Make the First Offer?
- Becoming a Confident Negotiator
- The Argument Against Negotiating Hard
- The Three Legs of a Salary Negotiation
- Negotiation Ammunition
- This Technique Could Earn You $1,000 in Five Seconds
- Avoiding a Killer Question
- Lessons from a $500,000 Negotiation
- Negotiating with Employment Agencies
- An Old Negotiation Trick
- Negotiating a Better Salary
Stress Reduction
- The World's Shortest Course in Stress Management
- Excise Anger from Your Life
- How You Can Strike Back at the Terrorists
- Should Your Boss Pay You to Nap?
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
- Take a Walk
- A Cure for the Imposter Syndrome
- A Fast Stress Reliever
- Too Much Work to Do?
- America's Biggest Time Waster?
- The Two-Minute Struggle
- Lessons from a Cancer Scare
- A Personalized Approach to Getting Unstuck
- An Easy Way to Get More Efficient
- Winning at Office Politics Without Selling Your Soul
- Cures for the Blues
- Overcoming Childhood Baggage
- Stopping Your Downward Spiral
- When You're Feeling Worthless
Men's Issues
- Our Most Underserved Students: Active, Smart Boys:
- The Problem With Boys
- Saving Our Sons: How the Schools, Parents and Media Stifle Boys
- What the Hell is the Meaning of Life?-- revised version
- Saving Our Young Men
- "The Sexiest Man Alive:" a play about a couple with mismatched sex drives
- Men Don't Have it Easy Either
- Our Approach to Men, Reinvented
- The New Double Standard
- Why Are Smart People Excluded from the Diversity Celebration?
- Be True to Yourself Rather Than to Your Gender
- Men's Career Issues
- Should We Pay More Attention to Men's Health?
- In Defense of Men
- Letters from Father to Child
- Why Men Earn More
- Men As Beasts of Burden
- Angry White Boy
- Lessons I Learned From My Father, Lessons I'd Teach My Child
- Men Are Unsung Heroes
- Why Men Earn More
Politics
- Why Are Smart People Excluded from the Diversity Celebration?
- My 12 Worries about America and What I'd Do About Them: The stump speech I'd give if I were running for president
- My Ten Worries About America and What I'd Do About Them (shorter, 1188-word version)
- What Should Government Do To Create Jobs?
- Why America is Dying...and What to Do About it (abridged)
- The Most Beneficial Research?
- Bush Voters May Not Be So Stupid
- America the Dumb and how to smarten it (and you)
- Affirmative Actions (Screenplay)
- The Overwhelming of America
- In Search of a Candidate I Can Be Passionate About
- Why I Can't Vote for Bush, Kerry, nor Nader
- re: Gratz v. The University of Michigan (reverse discriminination in college and graduate school admission)
- More Rights for Americans 40+ Cause for celebration or concern?
- Tackling The Really Big Problems
- Who's Driving America's Liberalism?
- The Guest Worker Proposal for Illegals is Unethical and a Jobs Killer
Land the Job
- Networking is Overrated
- What to Do if You Lose Your Job
- Your Resume Makes You Naked
- A Shortcut to Your Dream Job
- It's the Most Wonderful Time of Year...To Land a Job
- Landing a Job: What if Networking Doesn't Work?
- Advice for the Long-Term Unemployed
- Making Your Next Job Your Best Yet
- "I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING!" An Advanced Course in Job Seeking
- The One-Week Job Search
- Responding Wisely to a Job Ad
- Co-Coaching: "I'll Coach You if You'll Coach Me"
- Avoiding the Job From Hell
- A Simple Way to Create a Great Resume
- Metaphors to Ease Your Job Search
- An Advanced Course in Interviewing
- Winning the End Game
- The job seeker's agonies...and how to mitigate them
- Networkers' Biggest Mistake
- Procrastinating Your Job Search? 5 Custom Solutions
- Finding a Good Job in a Lousy Job Market: The 50/50/50 Method
- The Cold Reality About Job Searches
- Staying Up During a Job Search
- A Job Search is Like A Rose Seed
- A Confidence Builder for Job Seekers
- Advice for Job Seekers over 40
- A Fast Way to Land a Job
- Don't Let Want Ads Scare You Off
- Vintage Job Ads May Have Aged Well
- Contact Employers Even If They Aren't Advertising Job Openings
- The Hide-the-Resume Game
- Don't Be a Mouse Potato
- Why Cold Calling for a Job Works
- Finding the Names of Hirers
- Scared to Pick Up the Phone?
- Leave Warm Voice Mail
- Walk Right Into a Job
- Why Dropping In Can Land You a Job
- How to Network Your Way into a Job
- You Know More People Than You May Think
- The Missing Link in a Networking Call
- Job Seekers' Biggest Mistake
- Headhunters and You
- Think of an Interview as a First Date
- So You're Not Perfect
- The World's Toughest Job Interview Question
- When Interviewed, Don't Just Talk, Listen
- Managing Time in a Job Interview
- Questions Candidates Should Ask in an Interview
- Mold the Job in Your Image
- An Ahead-of-the-Pack Thank-You Letter
- Will Your Next Job be Better?
- Using Online Networking to Land a Job
- The Zero-Tolerance Job Search
- Kill Yourself in Getting Your First Job
- Employers: Don't Let Job Applicants Snow You
- The Magic of 30
- Today's Best Job-Search Websites
- Where the Jobs Are
- A New Graduate's Job-Finding Kit
- Networking at an Event
- Overcoming Fear of Rejection
- My 2005 Predictions for Job Seekers
- The Pain of Being Ignored
- Ahead-of-the-Pack Resumes
- Job-Seeker Rules You Should Break
- Cold Contacting Made Easier
- Making the Most of a Networking Contact
- What Matters to Me in a Job Interviewee
- What Matters to Me in a Cover Letter
- Job Seeker Complaints
- Overcoming the Fear of Selling Yourself
- Landing a Good Job in a Bad Market
- U.S. Workers Need Not Apply
- Today's #1 Hirer: The U.S. Government
- An Ahead-of-the-Curve Way to Land a Federal Job
- The Job Seeker "Fantasy" and How to Make it Come True
- Where Are All the Tech Jobs?
- Speed Networking
- The Key to Successful Networking
- The Early Bird Gets the Job -- And Sometimes the Late One
- It needn't take a village, but it often takes a buddy.
Self-Employment
- How to Start a Business...When You're Fresh Out of School
- Low-Risk Self Employment
- The Case Against Self-Employment
- The Self-Employment Test
- Your Independence Day
- The World's Shortest Course on Self-Employment
- The Business Idea Generator
- Originality is Overrated
- Sufficient Grounds to Start a Business
- A Greasy Path to Success
- A High-Frequency Business Idea
- "I'll Promote You If You'll Promote Me"
- Making the Most of Your Customers
- Low-Risk, High-Payoff Self-Employment Ideas
- Converting an Idea to Moneymaker
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Marketing a One-Person Business
- What Business Should YOU Start?
- A Dangerous Self-Employment Axiom
Procrastination
- Overcoming Fear of Rejection
- 10 Ways to Counter Your Procrastination
- Another article on managing procrastination--plus a video
- Light Your Fire! A Matchbox of Ways to Get Motivated
- Developing Drive: the top 11 ways to replace procrastination with willpower
- The Definitive Guide to Replacing Procrastination with Willpower?
- A Cure for Procrastinating Mensans
- Overcoming Procrastination
- Procrastination Excuses
- Does Your Procrastination Really Need Curing?
- DON'T Put It On Your To-Do List
- A One-Paragraph Procrastination Treatment
- Overcoming Chronic Lateness
- 6 Steps to Coping with Procrastination
- Curing Procrastination
- Did School Teach You to Procrastinate?
- Afraid of Failing?
- How I Control My Case of Procrastination
People & Management Skills
- The World's Shortest Leadership Course
- Don't Treat Everyone Equally
- Understate the Case
- The Coming Labor Glut: Implications for job seekers, employees, employers, and investors
- What I'm Trying to Improve in Myself
- Obama's Secret Weapon: His Adrenal Gland
- Becoming Well-Liked at Work
- Working While Ugly
- Hiring Wisely
- The World's Shortest Management Course (abridged)
- Career Advice for Geniuses
- Beware of Being Too Dominating
- Do They Really Understand You?
- Managing Your Boss
- Keys to Successful Conversations
- When You Want Someone to Adopt Your Idea
- Bosses Don't Have It Easy Either
- What Does He Really Think of You?
- Gab May Not be a Gift
- When Someone's Out to Get You
- Great Career Advice from Commencement Addresses
- Listen Profoundly
- Successful Short One-on-One Talks
- How to Respond to a Compliment
- Hiring Smart
- How to Respond When Criticized
- Getting Someone Else to Change
- Winning at Office Politics...Without Selling Your Soul
- Getting Anyone to Spill The Beans
- The Virtues of Silence
- Taming Tough Talks
- How to End a Tough Talk
- The Even Greater Generation
- Train Your Boss
- Getting On Your Boss's Good Side
- Getting Your Boss to Say Yes
- In Defense of Romance in the Workplace
- Why Your Boss Doesn't Praise You
- Take a Sick Day When You're Not Sick?
- Before You Claim Bias
- How to Energize Your Employees
- Three Not-So-Obvious Ways to Keep Employees Happy
- When Your Supervisee Screws Up
- When You Have to Demote a Supervisee
- Employers, Be Ashamed
- Better than a MBA in Three Minutes?
- Management Lessons from Play Directors
- Coping With Crappy Coworkers
- Making Yourself Fire-Resistant
- In Praise of Experts
- Starting Out? Midcareer? Pre-Retirement? Advice for You
- Top Tips for Workplace Dating
- Are You Deadwood?
- Perceived Racism in the Workplace: A Survey
- Coping with an Annoying Co-Worker
- The Most Important Moment
- How to Remember People's Names
- Success in Three Seconds
- How Shoe Obsession Disorder Can Boost Your Career
- Creating Chemistry with an Employer
- Getting Your Boss to Love You
- Better Than a Management Book
- Give Unasked-for Advice
- Do You Talk Too Much?
- Don't Get Manipulated
- Three Bad Employees
- The Good Employer
- The World's Shortest "Course" in Management
- Top 5 Keys to a Happy Office Romance
- Whom Can You Trust?
Personal Growth
- Act As If...
- Can I Tempt You Into Making One of These Resolutions?
- How I'm Overcoming Fear of Death
- Never Look Back
- Career Advice I'd Give My Child
- What the Hell is the Meaning of Life (Revised, June 1, 2013)
- A Case for Selfishness
- Kindness? Gratitude? Bah, Humbug?
- New Ideas on Managing Your Time
- The Efficiency Expert: Getting More Done in Less Time
- The Efficiency Expert: Getting More Done in Less Time (Short version)
- The Efficiency Expert: Getting More Done in Less Time (a book proposal)
- The Commencement Speech I'd Give....Except No College Would Dare Let Me
- My Final Column
- What the Hell is the Meaning of Life?
- Create Your Personal Mission Statement
- Will You Get Ahead?
- The Case Against Work/Life Balance
- My Key to Efficiency
- What to Say After "Hello"
- Do You Have an Annoying Mannerism?
- Want to Succeed? Lower Your Self-Esteem
- Raise Your IQ Instantly
- Be In the Moment
- The Power of Negative Thinking
- Create Your 10-Year Vision
- Unethical? No One Cares
- Brilliant Failures
- When You're Trying to Ingrain a New Habit
- Lessons from the Fallen Mighty
- Is Low Self Esteem Your Problem or Your Excuse?
- Are You As Good an Employee as You Think You Are?
- Being Nice May Be Cruel
- Why Guys Should Attend Women's Events
- Avoiding Desperation
- Lessons I Learned From My Father, Lessons I'd Teach My Child
- A Key to Changing Yourself
- The Art of the Business Lunch
- Write Crap
- An E-Mail's Most Important Words
- Think Like a CEO
- A Key to Clinton's Success…and Yours
- Need a Loving Taskmaster?
- Should You Slow Down or Speed Up?
- THE Secret to Success?
- The Best Ideas in 2,000 Years
- Three Magic Words
- My Favorite Website
- A Surprising Lesson from the Top
- Beware of Motivational Speakers
- How to Be Perceived as Powerful
- Cold Calling for Cowards
- Are You Making Your Child a Slacker?
- The Importance of Goals Later in Life
- A Husband Watches His Wife
- Time
- A Bitter Client
- Looking Good After 40
- Yes, You Can Change
- Becoming More Resilient
- Becoming More Ethical
- Beware of Self-Help Gurus
- In Praise of Workaholics
- Is That All There Is?
- Are You Lazy?
- "Deep Down, I Don't Wanna Work!"
- Restaurants for the Un- and Underemployed
- A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LIFE: Advice I'd Give My Adult Child
- Lessons I Learned From My Wife
- Toward a Life Well Led
- Gaining Confidence
- The Highly Sensitive Person
- How Open Minded Are You, Really?
- Mentor Magic
- Winners Ask For What They Want
- Connecting Better
- The Case Against Long-Term Therapy
- Getting Efficient
- The Malleability Myth
- Lessons I Learned From My Father
- Ask For What You Want
- Finding Contentment
- Brilliant Failures
- The Good Life
- Olympic Heroes: An Oxymoron
- The most potent antidepressant?
- Beware of Psychotherapy
- Be thrifty with just two items--housing and cars--and you'll have a more rewarding life
- The power of nice
- Integrity is all
Reinventing School & College
- The Case Against One-Size-Fits-All Education
- America's Most Overrated Product: Higher Education
- Should Lecture Classes Be Replaced by "StarProfs Classes"?
- A Blueprint for Reinventing Education
- GeneralEd.org: A Reinvented Online General Education Program
- A Proposal: Mandating that All Colleges Post a College Report Card on Itself
- Students: Don't Reflexively Go to College or Grad School.Government: Require Colleges to Issue a College Report Card
- Education Reform We Can Believe In
- America's Most Overrated Product: Undergraduate Education
- How to Fix the Schools
- How to Fix the Schools (abridged)
- The Truth About College: A Book Proposal
- Utopia College
- Reinventing the High School Curriculum
- Education Reinvented
Miscellaneous
- Me, Grow Roses?!
- The Case Against Travel
- Bill
- Eight Career "Truths"That May Not Be So True
- Thoughts on Career, Relationship, and Money, as I Approach Old Age
- 10 Questions for Those Concerned About Climate Change
- Jack Rabbit - a treatment for a feature motion picture--suggestions welcome!
- "What's the Big Idea?" Bolder approaches to job creation, health care, education, and our election system
- REINVENTIONS of 30 Societal Pillars
- How to Do Life: what they didn't teach you in school
- My Top 16 Pieces of Career Advice
- The Lazyperson's Guide to Growing Roses (while being environmentally responsible)
- Hassle-Free Business Travel
- The Winners of the Workplace Turkey Awards
- Career Lessons From The Bush Win
- What Works for Ronn Owens
- The 6 Best Career Tips I've Learned This Year
- Straight Talk About Your Career
- Career Advice 16 to 60+
- The Gray Hair Career Guide
- What My Workshop Attendees Asked
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