As you make plans to spend time with friends and family tonight/tomorrow to celebrate the New Year, I recommend that you try and set aside 30 minutes to really reflect on the past year professionally. What have you learned? What would you have done differently? What would you have done the same? How can you [...]
In short: YES!! I’m a big believer in New Year’s Resolutions overall, and I think a career-motivated resolution is a great thing. Almost one year ago on January 3rd I posted the following here on the blog, and I still believe every word of it: Some people are firm believers in the importance and power [...]
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving! I’m sure many of you are already deep into your Holiday shopping, and if you’re like me, you’re probably looking at the receipts in disbelief! This is what leads to a lot of people – even well established professionals with a good salary – to consider taking a [...]
I base my Career Coaching and speaking practice in St. Louis, and know a majority of you who follow the blog are in the Gateway City, as well. And unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the Cardinals are once again in the World Series, Game 1 of which is tonight! Whether [...]
As I tell my Career Coaching clients, it’s so important that you don’t just go through the motions when you network. It’s a very common mindset when you’re networking to think, “Okay, cross that contact off the list, who’s next, and then after him, I gotta meet her, and after her, let’s see who, um…” [...]
Do you remember our guest blogger/secret hiring decision maker from earlier this year? He/She had a lot of great warnings on what NOT to do when trying to network. One of the things they said you MUST do, though, is to always edit! I was reminded of this point when I ran across this article [...]
First things first: I think resumes can be very overrated. It’s hard to sum up what a person is worth professionally on a piece of paper – which is why I always put more value in networking, building relationships and reputation so that people will be dying to hire you before they’ve even SEEN a [...]
Our secret hiring decision maker is back with more insight! We may not all be “writers” out there, but we should still definitely consider tone… TIP #9: RIGHT INFORMATION, WRONG TONE How you communicate in an email is definitely trickier than in person. Written words cannot rely on delivery. They are black and white on [...]
If you missed Tip #7, it’s because it was exclusively presented in the April edition of CAREEReport. And now, on to Tip #8 from our secret executive hiring decision maker! TIP #8: DON’T BURY THE LEAD. Over the years, I’ve received a number of emails from people wanting to be considered for openings that open [...]
This Thursday, the KSDK news team (Channel 5 here in St. Louis) is doing a story about job interviewing, and I’m excited to announce that their interview of yours truly will be a part of the story! I hope you’ll watch. If the questions they’ve been asking me as a career coach/career counseling resource are [...]