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Scarface and the Passion of New Immigrants to the United States
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses the importance of will power, passion and being really excited about what we want to achieve.
Harrison gives the example of Scarface, a fascinating movie, to highlight the power of the will in order to accomplish things – however impossible they may seem. Scarface is the success story of an immigrant who came to America with nothing and went on to become a hugely powerful, wealthy and successful person. Harrison...
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Do Not Be Vengeful
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses the importance of controlling your anger and not allowing hurt and vengeance to get the better of you.
A lot of people, who believe that they have been wronged, tend to lash out at the world as a reaction to the hurt caused. They adopt a vengeful attitude towards the world at large. For instance, if a person has been fired by an employer, he or she would tend to take out the hurt and anger at the next employer. Ho...
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How Using the Power of Routine Can Make You a Top Performer
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses the importance of maintaining a routine in life as well as in work in order to achieve success.
Practice and routine in life, according to Harrison, are undeniably the greatest secrets of all successful men. It is not ability, inborn abilities or experiences which make one person do better than the other. It is only practice. While it is most important to have a routine, even more critical is that the routine be...
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Marketing Secret of Successful Job Applicants
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes emphasizes the importance of positioning yourself well to be successful in your career.
USP is one of the most effective marketing tools. Harrison firmly believes that just as a USP is extremely important to sell a product, in the same way, your USP plays a pivotal role in marketing you to potential clients.
Your USP is that unique aspect about you which sets you apart from other job seekers. It is the reaso...
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Ferraris Crashing Into Poles and the Importance of Focus in Your Life and Career
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes talks about the need to focus on where you want to go and not what you fear.
Harrison believes that people have a tendency to focus their attention on what they would actually want to avoid, instead of what they want to achieve. As in a pre-accident situation, the driver almost invariably focuses on the pole in front of him which he should avoid rather than on the safe places he would want to reach.
What you...
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The Pygmalion Effect and Setting Incredible Expectations for Your Career and Life
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses how it is important to perceive yourself positively in order to succeed.
In your career and personal life you are going to come across both– people who believe in you and those who do not. Harrison believes that it is important to surround yourself with people who believe in you and what you can achieve. It is equally important that you distance yourself from people who do not believe that. Beliefs others hold a...
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Carrot Peelers, Sales, Personality and Your Job Search
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes teaches you one of the most powerful job search strategies – salesmanship.
Learning to sell is incredibly important to your job search and life. Harrison believes that people who understand salesmanship always do well. You can put them anywhere, and they will succeed. It is your number one weapon in looking for a job and also the most overlooked thing. You need to find out what your potential employer needs and desires. Y...
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You Need to Enjoy What You Are Doing
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses how important it is to enjoy your job.
Harrison strongly believes that you should not be doing anything you do not enjoy. It is a wonderful thing when we like what we are doing. There is nothing more important than loving our jobs. You should enjoy getting up for your job each day. You should like the work you do and be interested in it. You should like the people around you and you should never be doing anything ...
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Taking Your Thoughts and Life Out of the Shadows
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses how seeing things differently can help you succeed in your job and life.
One of the greatest challenges to finding a job, changing direction in our lives and becoming the people we are capable of becoming is learning to see the world in different ways. You need to take advantage of the opportunities that are in front of you. There are countless people out there who live lives in obscurity because they cannot see t...
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Your Brain and Your Career
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes, discusses how your brain is the single greatest determinant of what will end up happening to you in your career and life.
Harrison believes that your brain is a crucial determinant in your success or failure. What is most interesting about your brain is that you may be benefited, or held back, on either an organic or a psychological level by your brain. Many of the common problems th...
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