Keep your own scorecard
If you are dreading your next performance evaluation (for either real or imaginary reasons), then it’s time to start keeping your own scorecard so you can determine exactly where you stand. Your next review...
Category: Career
Mourning the loss of civility in the workplace
It’s hard to put my finger on a specific time that basic civility started to decline. I suppose we could blame the changes in the use of courtesy on many things. Technology replacing the...
When you know it is time to go
You may not remember exactly when you stopped being excited about getting to work and tackling the day’s challenges. It may have started as a gentle feeling of reluctance – sleeping an extra ten minutes...
Surviving when your employer’s goals have changed
Staying too long in a role can have extremely negative ramifications for a person’s mental health and marketability. If that’s so, you may be asking, what then is too long and how do you...
Stop daydreaming. Set goals for achieving your dreams.
It’s never too early or too late to create a picture of what you want in your life. Dreaming big and imagining all the possibilities open to you is a fabulous start to shaping...
Capable vs competitive
A strong job market with low levels of unemployment would appear to be good news, but it can also be misleading. There may be many available jobs, but that doesn’t mean a person lacking...
Portfolio careers can satisfy your different needs
Who said one career choice or any singular job is supposed to fill all of your needs? That notion is a thing of the past, yet it is a consistent expectation voiced by people...
Avoiding complacency when everything is just okay
It’s probably not news to anyone that candidates and employers behave differently in a hot job market than they do in a tight one. When jobs were scarce, candidates may have been victims of...
When you think the interview went really well…
When market statistics show that more jobs are being created and unemployment rates are very low, it’s easy for candidates to be overconfident, if not outright unrealistic. The availability of more jobs is great...
Stop making random efforts and conduct an effective job search
In my last post, I covered the reasons why a passive job search typically does not produce the desired or longer-term results. An effective job search begins with taking a controlled approach, which is...
