Comments on I Love My Job!: How a job search is like baseball

Great addition Sandy! Absolutely - underestimatin...

2009-09-25T11:50:26.243-07:00

Great addition Sandy! Absolutely - underestimating someone else can easily come off to them as you being manipulative or narcissistic - neither being a good hire.

Very interesting baseball analogies, Cris. You've...

2009-09-25T11:02:15.363-07:00

Very interesting baseball analogies, Cris. You've had some excellent posts but this is my favorite so far! Here's one to add to the list:

"Respect whatever your opponent (competition) brings to the plate."

Sandy

Hey Robert, Thanks, two more great ones! Yes, yes...

2009-09-25T09:56:36.162-07:00

Hey Robert,
Thanks, two more great ones! Yes, yes, it's a team sport but you're alone at the plate - and in an interview.

I'd thought about it being the only sport where the defense has the ball, but didn't have the tight words - of course, just like HR.

I think a follow-on to this one is in order, we could easily do another 24! Care to collaborate or guest blog a few more?

How awesome that you descended from a baseball legend. Congrats!!!

Cris, A very thought-provoking post! Another simi...

2009-09-25T09:47:49.258-07:00

Cris,

A very thought-provoking post! Another similarity that occurs to me: baseball, like job search, is a team sport (thinking of your network, etc.)--culminating in your individual at-bat, alone at the plate.

Baseball is also the only major sport where the defense has the ball. Also sounds like HR :)

Robert Dagnall
www.ResumeGuru.com
Great-grandson of pitcher Clarence Arthur "Dazzy" Vance, inducted to the Hall of Fame 1955