What if Your Network is Inadequate?
Whether you are watching your preferred morning news and talk television show, searching the Internet, or talking with a career expert, if the topic is job search, the advice will be the same. You already know it. You have heard…
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Job Search Frustrations: “I Feel Like I’m Wasting My Time.”
It’s with good reason we’ve all heard that finding a job is a full-time job. But job seekers struggle with making meaningful use of their time. It’s one thing to invest the time; it is quite another to feel like…
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Job Search Frustrations: “My Inbox is Full of Garbage.”
If you have a resume posted, you will inevitably receive a lot of e-mail regarding jobs for which you have absolutely no interest. For most people this is very frustrating. You can’t help wondering why someone would send you information…
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“How Should I Answer the Income Question?”
Scenario 1: You’ve heard about a job posting from a friend and you go to the company’s website and sure enough, there it is. As you read the posting, you know you’re a perfect fit. You begin the application and…
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Hope and Strategy
We have all heard the phrase,” hope is not a strategy.” Certainly when it comes to a job search, career advancement, or finding more meaningful work, hope alone will not get you there. We have also heard that, ”insanity is doing…
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“How Can I Use LinkedIn Effectively?”
At some point you received that first invitation to connect on LinkedIn. Or maybe someone asked you the cryptic question, “Are you on LinkedIn?” Since then, if you’re like most people, you have been adding the occasional connection but all…
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Signs You May Be Losing Your Job
Most people don’t see it coming. The truth is, most people don’t want to see it coming. Though the signs are there, they don’t realize it until the sudden meeting with their boss and the HR representative. All along, hope against hope,…
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What Does it Take to Have an Exceptional Career?
Be intentional not reactive. Most people’s careers are not well planned and executed. For the majority, their career is the sum of their reactions to the things that have happened to them. An exceptional career requires constantly thinking about the…
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Your Annual Career Self-Examination
For many, turning the corner to the New Year becomes the moment of inspiration, when they awaken to the fact that things could and should be different. If you are ready to perform an Annual Career Self-Examination, start by considering…
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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
It’s the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. -Thomas Carlyle Every week I meet people frustrated because they don’t feel they have found the right…
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The Possibilities of Remote Collaboration
If you are (as I am) fascinated by the possibilities of remote collaboration via the internet; then you are going to find this interesting (music lovers all the more). As you watch, you can’t help but think of the possibilities.
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If You Are Changing Careers…
Dorie Clark has written a fabulous article on the importance of creating a compelling narrative that connects your past with your future. Find it here on the Harvard Business Review blog network: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/how_to_explain_your_career_tra.html
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