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Christine Livingston asked me where I thought the economy was going the other day. How long was it taking for people to get jobs? I tweeted her question out to HireFriday and then used LinkedIn Answers to ask this question and targeted it to many of my career pro colleagues and friends: Jobseeker / CareerPro…
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Category Archives: Careers
When you feel you can’t
At one point, the tagline on my business cards and advertisements was: Success begins with a single step, I believe in YOU! I still totally believe that it does! Saying I Can’t is easy, taking the first step is harder. I do believe in my clients and in the job seekers I interact with daily…
Are you threatening someone at work?
Recently, I worked with a young health care graduate referred by a family member who successfully used my services previously. The face-to-face appointment with the new client and my former client let my former client know how my services evolved and gave my new client new job search strategies. The client had worked in health…
Raise your hand if everything is perfect
Raise your hand if everything runs smoothly for you all the time. Is your hand up? No, why not? Guess what? Neither is mine or any reader that is being honest right now. When your world is not running smoothly, you think every else around you is in the perfect world. If you are unemployed,…
AN Extra from Kimba Green – a Job Mob Contest Post
I told Kimba Green and some other job seekers about Jacob Share’s contest on Job Mob. I encouraged her to write a post for the competition. Now you need to go read her post, it might make you cry. It made me have even more respect for Kimba who has become a friend when I…
Where do you recharge?
I’m trying to learn, this year, how to make time for recharging. It’s a hard lesson for me. Even taking moments out of my day to sit in the sunshine is hard for me, but I am trying. Early starts I tend to start my days very early. My alarm on weekdays is set for…
Should a Jobseeker Blog?
Today’s career management is ramped up from what was the norm only a few short years ago. Not only do current job seekers have to think about new tools but future-thinking career professionals should realize that no job is forever. You need to have many tools in your arsenal. 1. → The well-written, keyword-infused, accomplishment-focused…
Is everyone instinctively competitive?
Meet Beau and Titan, the visiting Newfoundland puppies who come to be socialized with Teddy, our German Shepherd. Beau and Titan belong to Lee, a friend of my sons, and his dad. Titan is Lee’s and Beau is his dad’s puppy. At 10 weeks old, they compete to get the same toys. Even when I…
Change your perspective: look from another angle
Back to the berry patch! You may have read my 4th of July reflections while raspberry picking. Well, the berries are not going away. I have been helping to pick my father-in-law’s (Bob) patch since July 3 and am barely keeping up with the crop. The patch is important to him and since at 88,…
Career Mentoring from 4th of July Raspberry Picking
Yesterday, I picked raspberries at my father-in-law Bob’s house. The raspberries are early this year. In other years, the raspberries were at their peak during the week of the fair in early August. But spring came early and so did the raspberries. No ordinary raspberry patch Bob has no ordinary raspberry patch with just a…