30 Career Management Tips Provide Personal Communication

30 Career Management Tips â€" Provide Personal Communication This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories This month, I’m providing a career management tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own career management activities. Today’s tip: Provide personal communication. There’s e-mail, instant messenger, Twitter, Blackberry’s, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and snail mail. What do they all have in common? Not talking with the person on the other end of the communication. Not seeing the other person face-to-face. And, as Charles H Green notes in Trust Matters: The problem with trust isâ€"at heart it’s an analogue function in a world of digital suitors. Put too many degrees of separation between you and another, and trust falls down. The decay rate of trust from my LinkedIn friend to my friend’s friend is huge. I’ve always considered myself an “analog guy in a digital world.” I like talking with people, whether face-to-face or on the phone. Digital communications separates us from the very real human interaction that builds relationships and trust with other people. And while Charles’ article on “The Credit Crisis and Trust Networks” is about how the mortgage crisis is built on the lack of trust between all the parties buying and selling mortgages, the communications points of the article ring true in this age of the faceless communication tools of electrons floating through the Internet: Trust doesn’t travel well digitally. A song loses no data when it’s digitally copiedâ€"but digital replication of trust loses heart. A “trust network” based solely on transactions is a network devoid of all but the narrowest version of trustâ€"a track record with no memory of what it is supposed to be tracking. Manage your career: talk with other people. […] Provide personal communication. Twitter is not personal communication. Talking to people is. […] Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.