I’m reigniting my blog, and need your help. What topics are most interesting to you? What issues do you most want to read about? What are the biggest challenges you face in your career search, on the job, or in self-promotion without bragging? Past entries have dealt with a variety of both career …
Over the next few weeks, let’s explore some of the ways you can make the most of your new job… Before you even start your new job, you need to think about the networking you’ve done and the contacts you’ve made during your search. Hopefully, you’ve kept careful records of who you’ve met along …
Many candidates make the mistake of all but stopping their searches from Thanksgiving to New Years, thinking that the holidays are an unproductive time. Nothing could be further from the truth! This is actually one of the best times to be moving forward in your search. If you need some downtime to spend enjoying …
I came across a good discussion of how to handle a bad reference in a job-search-related blog. While the blog seems to have been closed, here was the essence of their point: A key point when seeking critique in any situation is this – don’t get defensive. As soon as you start to try …
I invite you to submit your answers to this question: “What Is Your Biggest Obstacle To Career Growth?” Post your answers in a comment to this entry, and then I will share suggestions for dealing with those issues. In the meanwhile, here’s an article on Achieving Your Career Potential.
If you are looking to move your career or career search forward, here are just a few of the articles in my free reference library: In Career Search: Leave Them Wanting to Know More When to Leave a Job My HOMER Template for Interviews In Career Growth: Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years …
As I prepared for my tele-class “10 Traps That Snare Jobseekers…And How To Avoid Them”, even my ‘quick list’ of traps quickly grew to exceed 50! The class promised to be a content-rich hour … I compressed as many as I could down into 10 themes, and perhaps this will need to lead to a …
You never know where inspiration is going to hit you … which is a good argument for opening yourself up to various experiences and moving out of your comfort zone. I’ve always heard experts tout reading occasional publications outside your field, so that you would get perspectives. My reaction often was, “I get it, but …
Did you spend time building up a good set of LinkedIn connections? Have you spent an equal amount of effort keeping those as strong connections? It’s easy to forget to build on the relationships we have, particularly when we are busy at work, and allow them to slowly wither on the vine. …
If you are interested in accelerating your career growth, I’ve written a number of articles on different aspects of this. The latest is “Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?”, which I wrote for the Actuary of the Future magazine. In it I share my own career journey, and key lessons learned others can …