Looking to improve your LinkedIn presence? Check out my guide to optimizing your LinkedIn profile for your dream career. At a recent workshop, I was asked for strategies to decide what LinkedIn invitations to accept. This notion of networking attention as a limited resource inspired my latest post for Forbes on guidelines for deciding how to
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When Your Current Career No Longer Suits You, Pursue Your Other 100 Dreams
March 4, 2018 – Posted in: MindsetOne of my best-performing Forbes posts this year is on seven signs your current career no longer suits you, and 100 Dreams is the exercise I recommend to clients who are stuck on finding the next thing to pursue. Clearly this topic strikes a nerve – are you also feeling in a rut or thinking you
The Ideal Professional Network — Ten People You Need To Know
February 5, 2018 – Posted in: Career AdvancementI was leading a career planning workshop for senior executives, which of course includes talk of the ideal professional network. One of the participants dared to say he didn’t return unsolicited calls from recruiters. Seriously? Recruiters are definitely people you need to have in your professional network. Recruiters offer a critical window into the market.
Procrastinating On Your Resume? Five Steps To Creating A Resume Quickly And Easily
January 27, 2018 – Posted in: ResumeFor more on resumes, check out my Ultimate Guide To Resumes. The first quarter of the year is a busy time for hiring, and if you want to jump on the job opportunities that come your way, you’ll need a resume. But the prospect of pulling together all the details of your background is daunting
How To Move From Entrepreneurship Back To Employment — Three Strategies For Telling Your New Story
January 21, 2018 – Posted in: Career ChangeAfter several years at a top management consulting firm, my engineer client moved rapidly up the ranks of a start-up from operations to project management to head of business development, until slow growth and slower fundraising made him realize that he not only was not going to have the big exit story to tell at
Thinking About Graduate School To Advance Your Career? 10 Questions To Consider
August 27, 2017 – Posted in: Career AdvancementTo go to graduate school or not: that is a question you may face after several years on the workforce and looking for a boost in your career; or after several decades of work and looking for a major change. Given the time and expense of a graduate school education, it makes sense to weigh
When Your Dream Career Is Elsewhere: Ten Ways To Find A Job In A New Location
July 31, 2017 – Posted in: Career AdvancementTrying to figure out what’s next in your career? You might also be interested in: How To Figure Out What To Do In Your Career – 10 Exercises And Prompts To Get Started I was recently coaching with an international executive education program, where a number of participants wanted to find a job in a new location — some
How To Choose Your Next Career Move: 40 Factors To Consider
June 12, 2017 – Posted in: Career AdvancementTrying to figure out what’s next in your career? You might also be interested in: How To Figure Out What To Do In Your Career – 10 Exercises And Prompts To Get Started There are many factors affecting how to choose your next career move, and what you prioritize changes over time. One client prioritized location over all because
Job Interview Gone Bad? How To Handle The Hostile, Mean-Spirited, Difficult Job Interviewer
June 6, 2017 – Posted in: InterviewingPreparing for a job interview? You might also be interested in my blog post: Ten Step Process To Help Ace Your Next Job Interview. A job interview is a person-to-person communication, and some people are difficult, so you will likely encounter a difficult job interviewer at some point. The difficult job interviewer pushes back on what
Six Steps To Negotiate For More Flexibility At Work
April 21, 2017 – Posted in: NegotiationFlexible working is on the rise. Nearly three out of every four employees say their company offers flexible working and 32% said they regularly work remotely. An entire 79% of employees said they work with at least one person who isn’t based in the same office as them. – The Human Face of Remote Working, 2017 global survey