Your Career Path – Is It a Roller Coaster Ride?

Posted on August 6, 2018

Ideally, you might hope to have a career path that runs smoothly forward and has at most a gentle hill or two on the way to lasting career success. Just don’t count too heavily on that happening. Unless you’re very fortunate or savvy–or both–your journey to career success might more closely resemble a roller coaster […]

Career Disaster Preparation & Recovery Plan – Do You Have One?

Posted on July 31, 2018

If the company you work for were to experience a disaster, would you be prepared to handle the potential effect on your job and career? As I write this, I’m seeing reports about the terrible wildfire in northern California, including loss of life, homes, businesses, and animals. In such situations, it’s hard for us to […]

Does Your Career Success Depend on Education?

Posted on May 26, 2018

Does lack of a degree get in the way of your career success? What if you earned your degree 15-20 years ago? If you have a bachelor’s degree, do you need an MBA or other advanced degree? One or more of these questions might hold significance for you. Let me break it down into chunks. […]

Don’t Let Workplace Stress “Do You In”!

Posted on May 19, 2018

You worked hard to get where you are, but now you’re drowning in a hectic sea of work that threatens to overwhelm you completely. In fact, the stress you’re experiencing on a regular basis could actually, at some point “do you in.” Ever hear someone say, “The stress is killing me!”? Maybe you’ve even said […]

How You Can Overcome Barriers to Career Success

Posted on May 10, 2018

You might know someone who has seemingly coasted to career success while encountering few, if any, barriers. Maybe you’ve envied them for having it come so easily. Don’t! First, it might not have been as easy for them as it looked to you. The barriers to career success they encountered might not have been visible […]

Job Search – Where Do I Start?

Posted on April 8, 2018

Highly organized individuals might have no problem at all managing their job search, from start to finish. If you’re not lucky enough to be one of them, you might consider the whole idea of a job search to be a major pain–almost worse than going to the dentist for a root canal! The challenge begins […]

LinkedIn: Is Your Profile Helping or Hurting You?

Posted on March 19, 2018

Time to beat this drum again! I still see LinkedIn profiles that aren’t doing you any favors and might actually be hurting your chances of being considered for the position you want. LinkedIn isn’t the only tool you should pay attention to in your job search and career management, but it’s a BIG piece of […]

Career Success: You Can Do More Than You Think

Posted on February 18, 2018

I’m often amazed when a client expresses hesitation about the value of what he/she has to offer employers–especially when the individual has had good career success at that point. I’ve seen this in cases where the client is aiming to move up in his/her career, which is admittedly somewhat of a challenge at times, but […]