Get a Mentor Before Your Next Career Move
Do you have a mentor? With the start of a new year and an improving economy, it may be a good time to evaluate your current career path and make some decisions about where you are headed.
Tagged: career planning
Taking Advantage of an Improving Economy
It’s important to stay focused and build a strategy for optimizing conditions during these improving economic times. The upswing in the economy/job market doesn’t mean it’s time to forget about planning..
Challenged or in Over Your Head: When a Positive Attitude Is Not Enough
During a tough job market, it is not uncommon to find two extreme versions of propaganda. On one hand, we might read about the absence of any jobs, and on the other hand, we...
How Different Will Your New Year Be?
You may have found the past year has been riddled with indecision and apprehension regarding many important issues: the economy, jobs, politics, healthcare, and government spending, to name a few. The list could go...
Drive Your Own Bus
Nailing the job is just the beginning. It’s always a great celebration when someone lands the role of their dreams. Then the real work begins: keeping it. Sometimes the joy of securing the role...
When Routines Replace Common Sense
Every couple of years, my husband and I get in a debate about the term “common sense”. I believe common sense is something people either have or don’t, and he believes that it revolves...
Job Search & Productivity
It seems unemployment is up to almost 10%. Ok.. so what can you really do about it? My job is to help my clients achieve their career goals. We discuss alternatives, and design plans....
Stop Posturing and Go to Work!
One of the elements I see repeated most frequently in a down economy is the propensity for people to over state what they do, what they know, and who they are connected with. All...
