Career Advice & Insights

Make sure you’ll be welcome if you wind up back on their doorstep.   Once you’ve received a job offer you plan to accept, one of your duties is to let your other prospects know, if you haven’t already. How much should you tell them? Read on for advice on how to handle this delicate … Read More

Try this exercise: on a blank sheet of paper, keep all your skills and experiences, but write down a new direction for your career and your business. What will you do differently? The shake-up following the Great Recession has been proffered as an opportunity to reassess our financial regulatory system and our national economic priorities. … Read More

When you can’t change your circumstances, consider changing yourself. However humbled you’ve been by a layoff, whatever savings you’ve lost in your portfolio and regardless of the size of your home’s equity value – you’re still the one with all the power. When, as now, headlines hammer home what you cannot control, remind yourself of … Read More

Electrical engineers, magazine designers and others are enduring sour salary prospects, while closely related fields experience sharp improvements. Is it time to switch industries? Sometimes two adjoining industries will experience vastly different prospects. How can you adjust your search to improve your odds? Case in point: Electrical engineers face a dismal job market. Job growth … Read More

Want to be the next vice president and GM? Look to the current vice president, and take notes about what makes her a success. Work is the learning laboratory for how to improve your career. All around you are positive and negative examples that you can observe and learn from. The key is to do … Read More

Do people with five- and 10-year plans find more career success? Are they happier? I recently spoke to Nancy, a mid-level executive in an energy company. She complained that she never had a big goal toward which she was working, no five- or 10-year plan. She decided to accept or decline each opportunity as it … Read More

The following eight steps helped job seeker ‘Paul’ put his online social networking into its proper place. Recently a colleague suggested I help an executive job seeker who was having trouble making sense of the online social networks he thought were supposed to support his job search. Let me call this person “Paul.” Paul came … Read More

In the wake of one of the worst economic downturns in our nation’s history, big gaps between gainful employment tenures aren’t unusual or unexpected. Read More

Committed to a change? Make yourself less of a gamble for recruiters. If you’re a job seeker trying to break into a new industry or field, the odds are against you. The tight labor market allows hiring companies to set very specific criteria for job candidates, and that typically includes industry experience. For the executive … Read More