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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 2592: More Confidence

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“So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!”

Yesterday, I wrote about having a confidence monitor.  One place we really need a confidence boost is when we interview for a job. Dr. David Austern’s research from New York University says that 92% of adults experience job interview anxiety.  If that didn’t register, that’s a really, really high number, which means just about everyone. The last time I interviewed for a job it was in front of a hiring/search committee and it was over a dozen people who threw questions at me for a couple of hours. Not knowing what was coming next was frightening in itself, but the insecurity and identity challenge that comes with a job interview can be overwhelming.  When we are on the asking side of the questions, let’s remember that on the other side of the desk someone so wants to be there at that moment, but feels so, so insecure.

We are thrown into situations everyday where our confidence is called into question.  But, that questioning is only by us, not by anyone else and if God spoke to us right then or now, He would tell us that our doubt of confidence does not come from Him.  He wants us to be as confident and as He is in us, which is really, all we need.  So, today let’s go into the world, with all of His confidence with us.

Reference: Hebrews 10:35 (New Living Translation)