Leandra Medine Quotes

I have always tried to market myself.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I wish I had not believed that my work would speak for itself; the working world requires a bit more than that.

I don't have the expertise in that department, I seriously lack the skill to market myself.

Whether you're a high school student, attend traditional college, or take night classes while working full-time, it is imperative that you are given the tools necessary to become competitive in the workforce.

Ask people who have the job you want how they got it.

The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.

You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.

Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.

If you're interested in the job and in the kind of work that's done, you have to have an interest in who's going to fill your shoes.