If you’re like most people, you start to get a little bored with your work after about two years. By this point, the novelty has worn off and you’ve learned most of what you need to be a contributor to the organization. These two years are also enough time for you to really figure out [...]
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Can You Coach An MBA?
April 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
MBA students, online MBA students and graduates hold high expectations for the return on the MBA. Many expect high salaries and corner offices after graduation. Unfortunately, students often find confusion, disappointment and a long job search. In this post, I’ll share some thoughts and ideas about how the process of getting an [...]
How Do I Network?
April 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Success: It’s All in How You Answer the Questions
March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For many professionals, our own questions impede our progress toward our career goals. Well, maybe it’s not just the questions, it could be our answers. There are certain questions we are faced with over and over in our career. The answers to the questions give direction to our career, sometimes good and sometimes bad. In [...]
The WAR for Talent is….OVER?
March 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Many high achievers still fail to recognize the need for skills beyond their own technical ability. A hard charging attitude coupled with a graduate degree isn’t sufficient. While they see themselves as real talent, they fail to see that the needs of industry are continually evolving. The battle for technical skill alone [...]
In Remembrance of Our Old Friend TC
March 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In this post, I have a little fun by sharing the obituary for the type of career many of us still seek; that is, the career our parents had (what I call the Traditional Career). Unfortunately, as this post indicates, she has left us and hopefully gone on to a better place.
The Traditional Career [...]
Digging Out of the White Collar Depression
February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In my last post, I provided details of how job tenures are declining rapidly and how wages have dropped to their lowest point since the government began monitoring it. The new work environment is full of job change, lower salary and elimination of the safe passage to high pay from the obtainment of [...]
The Old Great Career Ain’t What It Used To Be
February 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A ‘FAIR’ Surprise
January 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
5 Tips for Improving Career Satisfaction
January 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I used to think that finding happiness in my career was just as much my boss’ responsibility as it was my own. Once I got the education I needed and accomplished a few wonderful things, the people around me were supposed to recognize me, reward me and push me up the corporate ladder. Well, they [...]
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