I caught the trend but it really took a while for it to set in and make a lot of sense. The trend wasn’t limited to those on work visas or immigrants, it included many US Citizens as well. It was a class of nomadic people that would pick up and move wherever there was good employment. Sometimes any employment. One trend I noticed was the rural areas or metro areas that lacked a certain talent base to sustain the areas of growth often had a large transient workforce. CompaniesSEE DETAILS

Last week, Xuan Liu reached out to me for insights into landing an internship in the private equity or venture capital world. As someone that hires a lot of new grads for several different companies, I always reinforce how important internships are. They can really help you land that first gig right after graduation. As you can imagine, every MBA or like is seeking these type of internships along with other places like Goldman, other top investment banks and the management consulting companies. Just keep in mind you’re facing infiniteSEE DETAILS

Before LinkedIn gets bombarded with motivational quotes pasted on top of Jordan Belfort scenes from the Wolf of Wall Street, I wanted to post something up that is a little different to kick off 2017. This started off as a tweet one day that turned into a couple sentences in which I broke down into what you see now (posted up a clip of it in the past.) Not a literary masterpiece nor poetic in any sense but if you are on the grind, trying to build a career, launchingSEE DETAILS

I caught part of the radio piece on 97.1 today (Detroit) and had to do a little digging on Wilton Speight leaving U of M. On the radio they made it sound like Speight thought he owned the spot. I only did a quick search and here is what MLIVE had as a quote “Then the first spring practice happened, and I was sharing reps with the other quarterbacks,” Speight said. “It was another quarterback competition, all over again.” Regardless of why he is leaving, it hit home with me asSEE DETAILS

I am a firm believer that humans can justify anything. From the good, the bad, to the downright evil, humans will find some reason, no matter how minuscule, to justify their actions. As I was shopping recently, I kept hearing the sales pitch of “you deserve it” or “treat yourself” or “you work so hard, you worked for it, spoil yourself”. Those are the same things you tell yourself anytime you are about to spend money on yourself, from the SPA to a nice dinner or some material item. AndSEE DETAILS