How Important Should Income Be in Your Choice of Career? Yesterday I got a call from someone who was exploring the possibility of working with me as a career coach. We spent about twenty minutes on the phone together as I…
What To Do When the Job Outlook is Grim Ten per cent unemployment. Dozens of applicants for every job. Superbly qualified people willing to take huge compensation cuts in order to regain employment. In the face of these phenomena, it’s no…
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…
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…
Three Different Perspectives on Career Building I have just completed reading the third of three vastly different books on career success. First The first, about which I wrote at some length a few weeks ago, is entitled “The Startup of You”.…
A Career Book I Wish I’d Written Early last week a client recommended that I read a brand new book on career development entitled “The Start-up of YOU,” co-authored by Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, a young entrepreneur and…
How to Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick Almost half of the adult American population will make New Year’s resolutions, but less than half of those will have successfully adhered to their new ways come July 4. Changing bad habits is…
The Chasm vs. the Puddle A little while ago I posted an entry entitled “Small Steps that Can Lead to Big Change“. Relatedly, this past Christmas I posted about psychological barriers to moving ahead with the search to improve one’s…
“I’ve Lost My Identity” For the past few weeks I’ve been working with a client who held a very senior position with a major entertainment company prior to his being let go last year. He had happily and successfully worked…
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