Career Advice & Insights

Leverage your alumni association to find and win a job, but know the rules about what is and isn’t fair play. “Jamal,” a young finance executive, just two years out of business school, applied for a business analyst position at a large bank. He met with the bank’s recruiter at a job fair in Los … Read More

Steve Jobs’ 5 principles of job success As I was researching the material for my new book, ” The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs ” (McGraw-Hill), I realized that many of the principles responsible for Jobs’ breakthrough success at Apple apply equally to the management of one’s job search career. If you are searching for … Read More

If you’re networking to find a job, you’re doing it wrong. Don’t network to get a job. Network to build value-added relationships. The job will come. When people begin their job search, they often start by calling and e-mailing everyone they know in hopes of getting a job, or a better job. Imagine hearing from … Read More

Finance firms will care as much about your character as the skills and performance on your resume. In financial services, reputation matters. So does character. That wasn’t always the case, but in the wake of the recession that decimated the public’s regard for the industry, financial services firms are more concerned than ever in building … Read More

With the privileges of working come responsibilities that start even before you are hired. Working can be a real privilege. For one thing, it’s a great adventure. Every employee from the top to the bottom of a corporation’s org chart gets to be a part of the adventure — the daily challenge to create value, … Read More

It’s still a buyers’ market, but job seekers (the sellers) should be prepared to exercise more leverage in the hiring process. It’s no fun being a commodity. For much of the last two years it was a buyers’ market for hiring companies — they had their pick of willing and available candidates. The result was … Read More

Staying current in the technology and IT certifications is just the start. A career in Information Technology requires skills previous generations of IT executives ignored or scorned. (People skills? What are those?) The modern IT executive must be a master of the technology he manages plus the business lines it supports. What follows are the … Read More

Elaine Jefferson, a midcareer technologist from N.J., could have watched her career and life ended by two severe highway accidents, but her positive attitude held out and her luck changed lanes. “A funny thing happened on the way to my life,” says TechnologyLadder member Elaine Jefferson. “I was crossing the street three days before Christmas … Read More

Excerpted from ”You’re Better Than Your Job Search” By Marc Cenedella and Matthew Rothenberg If your experience is in a troubled industry, you may have to find a whole new way to package it, says Randy Hain, managing partner at Bell Oaks Executive Search in Atlanta. “I know a guy who was senior in the … Read More