Another year has started. Did you promise yourself that this is the year, now is the time to change careers? You feel ready to make a real change in your life.
Changing careers requires some internal and external stretching to get you where you want to go. In the same way that [...]
S…t…r…e…t…c…h your ambition to succeed
January 16th, 2012 No comments »The Gift that Keeps on Giving
December 19th, 2011 No comments »I recently performed in a musical theatre production of ‘The Gifts of the Magi,’ a story about a young married couple—Jim & Della Dillingham—who are living in New York in 1905 when Christmas rolls around and they have no money to buy each other gifts to express their love.
They have hit hard times because [...]
The LinkedIn Advantage
November 16th, 2011 No comments »ome job experts say that more jobs are now filled online through LinkedIn (LI) than all the job boards combined.
LI is, without a doubt, a major player in online job search; it is here to stay; and it’s influence continues to grow. If LI were a country, it would be the 12the most populous [...]
Find my Dream Job? I don’t even know what it looks like!
October 17th, 2011 No comments »When it comes to career change, we often focus on the blind spots.
This is especially true if we have been recognized and rewarded for a particular skill, even though the skill might leave us cold
or indifferent when using it to earn our living.
In other words, we confuse the means with the ends, or in JobJoy [...]
Job Search: “It’s Not About Me!”
September 14th, 2011 2 comments »The fall hiring season is upon us, and I’m spending a good deal of time each day coaching clients on a few basic principles to increase their chances of getting hired sooner rather than later.
As a job searcher, it is essential to understand the nature of your relationship with a hiring manager, whether you [...]
Loving Your Work More Fun Than Driving a Jaguar
June 16th, 2011 6 comments » met with a young man last week because he was worried about being left behind in the job stakes. He was thinking of switching programs from a BSc in Biology
to something “more practical” like nursing because his two young siblings were in a nursing program that guaranteed a job after graduation. He [...]
It’s the pattern, stupid!
May 16th, 2011 6 comments »I’m an idiographer. You might think I’m an idiot for saying so but idiography is actually the study of individual cases or events. And that’s what I do as a career professional. It is a proven, scientifically valid method for career assessment.
I demonstrated this method in some detail recently to colleagues [...]
Lesson from Las Vegas
April 16th, 2011 No comments »I just got back from Sin City, the one that never sleeps, where all vices are on display and easily procured!
Las Vegas is an oasis in the desert built years ago by the Mob. That’s quite a story in itself (with its own museum and a whole show at one of the casinos [...]
“Get Your Spiritual House in Order!”
March 15th, 2011 2 comments »I heard this fervent command not from the lips of a Sunday morning television evangelist but in a commercial on a prime-time radio show.
The ad features the CEO of a training company who uses short radio spots to promote to business owners his sales training programs on how to motivate and manage a sales force.
What [...]
Dry Your Eyes
February 15th, 2011 1 comment »A client walked into my office recently saying that she needed a new career because her current one was making her sick; so sick, in fact, that she could not hold back the tears.
In this case, as in so many others, she got stuck in a toxic work environment with an abusive boss [...]
