Overcoming Skepticism About Finding the Right Career Path Figuring out the right career path is initially a daunting process for many clients with whom I work. They’ve often struggled for years to find the answer, taking career tests, completing personality…
How to Conduct an AI-Based Interview The November 14 2019 Business section of the Washington Post featured a report on how AI (artificial intelligence) is central to a hiring system developed by a firm named HireVue, and how AI is…
A not infrequent question of my clients in their mid twenties to mid thirties is “Should I go back to school and get a graduate degree?” (most commonly an M.B.A.). There are a number of ways of looking at this…
Branding “Personal brand” was a term first used by Tom Peters in 1997, but has only been in widespread use over the last decade. When I first heard this term I had a viscerally negative reaction; I’d been intensely schooled…
Don’t Compare Yourself to Others! My last post was about negative self-talk. A primary source of this negative self-talk is the practice that most people have of comparing themselves to others. In the majority of instances, comparing makes people feel worse.…
Career Testing vs. Career Counseling for Twenty-Somethings Career choice is often made with less deliberation than one would imagine. Certainly that’s true of initial career choice. Twenty somethings’ are very much swayed by the opinions of family, peers, and popular culture,…
My Career Progression – Part II The closest I could get to a top job in the world of advertising turned out to be on the sales side – my old friend Bill Connell was now president of Whittle Communications…
My Career Progression As promised last week, here’s the story of my career trajectory – how I embarked upon the path that led me to prominent positions in the world of advertising, why and how I left the path, the…
Test Marketing Your Way to a New Career Today I want to share with you a discovery that I’ve used to help build my practice, a discovery that I think will benefit many of my readers. It’s called Google AdWords, a…
Jim helps you build a concise narrative capturing everything relevant: who you are, what drives you, and where you want to go.
Jim identifies paths with clarity including responsibilities, entry points, challenges, and genuine trade-offs.
Jim assesses each path against your strengths and constraints. A prioritized shortlist formed based on logic and AI feedback.
Jim ensures that your networking outreach, resume, LinkedIn profile, elevator speech, and interview performance are superior.
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