Facts May Not Mean What They Say. A few weeks ago I gave a talk to the Forty Plus Club, here in Washington D.C., an organization founded in the 1930s as a support group and training site for workers forty…
The Washington Job Outlook I’m spending this weekend at the country house of a good friend, Alex Orfinger, last year’s chairman of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce and publisher of the Washington Business Journal. Below is the interview I conducted…
Skill-Building vs. Corrective Coaching The vast majority of my clients are working with me for one of three reasons. Reason #1: they’re stuck in a career they don’t like and need to find another calling. Reason #2: they’re out of work…
The Impact of Culture on Your Career, Your Relationships, and Your Life I, like untold numbers of others, have been following the debate about responsibility for Jared L. Loughner’s murderous Tucson rampage with considerable interest. Vastly simplifying the two sides of…
Exercise: A Prime Remedy for Career Confusion or Fruitless Job Searching, and an Aid to Career Advancement Exercise has been a part of my life, pretty much consistently, since my mid-teens. I’m lucky, because that habit has provided me with…
More Thoughts on the Importance of Income and Other Factors in Career Choice This past week I had the good fortune to read an important book on motivation, Drive, by Daniel Pink. Pink examines the various factors contributing to job…
Would You Rather Be Right or Would You Rather Be Happy? The question I’m writing about today is an exceptionally important, and potentially valuable one, both in your relationships and for your career. When I first heard this question perhaps fifteen…

Three Key Steps to a Better Job, Career, and Life I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks now about what would be the best post to kick off the new year, and this is the one on which I…
Obstacles to Landing a New Job This post will be most beneficial to the numerous people who’ve been fruitlessly searching for work for many months. Since the Recession of 2008 began, I’ve provided career counseling and coaching to a large…
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