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How easy it is to land that hard fought for job and then kick back into a daily routine. The problem with doing that is there will come a day when you wake up to find you’re not too crazy about where your career is headed (or not headed).
Many people really don’t give it [...]
You have the degree and you have a job. The only problem? Your degree is saying you should have a much better job. It might seem trivial to complain about being gainfully employed in this economy, but having the right job is important. After all, you went through school so that you could succeed in [...]
When it comes to self promotion, there seem to be about three groups of people:
1. No self promotion. They either feel that the work speaks for itself or that self promotion is bragging.
2. Mindless bragging. They give no thought to what they are saying or how it affects them or others; more than likely highly [...]
Most of the commentary about LinkedIn usually has do to with job search, yet those with a job can also benefit from the use of LinkedIn, if they have any plans for career growth. Four things you can accomplish with LinkedIn easier than ever before are:
1. Nurture your existing network
2. Expand your network
3. Extend and [...]
Personal branding is one of those terms that are largely unclear or misinterpreted. As a result, some experts in the field are steering away from the term all together. I like the term. I think it is filled with meaning and can see why Tom Peters (business guru) coined the term a decade ago.
To get [...]
I recently had a discussion with a fellow Career Coach about the use of LinkedIn. While we both thought that is was probably the best job search tool out there, we also felt people set up LI accounts, with very little thought to what they were going to do once they did. I can truly [...]
“I’ll follow up with you tomorrow.” Only that follow up never happens. How does that make you feel? It makes no difference what the follow up was going to be. It can be a call back from a job interview all the way to your work associate following up to tell you if they can [...]
You did a bang up job interviewing and landed a job you thought might be fairly good. Perhaps it wasn’t all the things you had hoped for, but it looked good enough to accept. Now that you’ve been on the job a few months and past the dust-settling period, you’ve discovered you’ve gotten yourself in [...]
There seems to be more stress, pressure and conflict in the workplace then ever before. As budgets tighten, layoffs happen and higher productivity expected, tempers flare.
Show your leadership skills by mastering these tips to maintaining a calm presence in the face of conflict and crisis.
Breathe
Keep breathing, when someone behaves in an unexpected way, it [...]
You may have taken your first personality assessment in high school and brushed it off. But when it came time to choose your major in college or go to graduate school, you probably realized that the personality assessments and career aptitude tests weren’t bogus and that they provide insight you might not already know about [...]
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