#JobSearch #Friday – Believe in Yourself!
How do you feel about searching for your next job? Far too often, professionals underestimate their skills and experience. They let great jobs pass because they feel they do not have “what it takes” to be successful. In my professional career transition coaching, this lack of belief among clients is fairly common. How Do I…
Read More#TalentAttraction #Tuesday – Cost Of a Poor Performing Hire!
Phillip Stanhope (4th Earl of Chesterfield) in 1746 wrote a letter to his son, and said, “If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” How many times have you heard this quote? It is still true today after nearly 300 years. What does this quote have to do with the Cost of a Poor…
Read More#JobSearch #Friday – The Best “Here I AM!” Speech
Some of you know the introduction to a network connection as the “Elevator Speech” or the “One Minute Commercial”. In my books, I refer to it as the “Here I AM!” speech because it tells the Tale of You in one minute or so. As the professional career coach of over 1000 successful job-seeking clients…
Read More#TalentAttraction #Tuesday – Reference Checks? So Last Decade!
Whoa! Is your company the same company complaining that you cannot find new employees who fit your culture? What happens when a company skips a couple of due diligence steps during an acquisition? Most often, after the acquisition, they discover information they wish they acquired during the due diligence they cut short. Yes. I know…
Read More#JobSearch #Friday – You Graduated from #College – Importance of Resilience
What does Resilience mean to you? Bend but not break? Life comes at us quickly with unexpected challenges. Covid-19 is a great example right now. What are you doing to create an opportunity for your career and livelihood? Waiting for Covid-19 to end is not helpful. Almost every generation has experienced a recession close to…
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