Robert Pozen Quotes

The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.

I find I have to respond to a character or a story to choose a job.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

It's easy to imagine that because a certain company has a prestigious reputation or everyone says it's a great place to work, that it will be the perfect fit for you. But, in reality, the search to find a career is a much more individual process.

Job seekers light up when they find The Muse - we're a breath of fresh air in a stale, musty world. Our user experience focuses first and foremost on the individual, on providing them information - from content to company profiles - to make the most pressing professional decisions in their lives.

People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.

I learn a lot in interviews, I learn about how careers differ.

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.

My dad used to cut out newspaper ads and post them to me in the hope I'd get a proper job.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

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.

Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

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.

When I was younger, it was so much easier. All I needed to do was just get a job. It was like, 'Oh, my God, I have a job! I can call myself a working actor.' But then, the older you get, you have to be more selective, and that's tough.

My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study.

When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.

My family said that a big firm was where you'd get the most opportunities. I knew nobody who had ever worked at a firm, nobody who knew anything about it. I just tried to get the best job I could.

You wouldn't try and make a cake without a recipe book. Careers are just the same.

Earlier, I used to take up any role that came my way. But now I feel that I should take time and consider the role before taking it up.

I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.

After college I'd take up a job and I'd experience what it is to take up a job, rather than starting out on my own. I said let me just work for six months so that I know myself a little better.

I didn't think of my job as wanting roles I want to do but roles that suit me.