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Career Trends and Career Change: Interpreting Employment Trends in 2010

February 1, 2010

A great career choice today may not be the best choice a few years from now.
There are hundreds of factors that affect your employability, many of which are linked to the job market. By keeping an eye on the trends in the marketplace, you can be ready to respond as factors are changing, and proactively [...]

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Is Your Success Undermining Your Dreams?

January 4, 2010

“Good is the enemy of great.”
This, the opening statement of Jim Collins’ Good to Great, is a primary cause of dream abandonment.
You’re good at what you do. You’ve got skills. You meet deadlines. Your projects meet client needs. You bring home a paycheck that keeps you and your family comfortable.
It’s so easy to rest on [...]

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Taking the first step towards excellence

December 4, 2009

Today, I uploaded a new photo to my Twitter account.
It’s the third (fourth?) that I’ve used since I started on Twitter earlier this year. Each time I’ve been happier with the photo that I’m using.
The easiest thing to do might have been to go out at the beginning and get a professional head shot taken. [...]

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How NOT to win that job promotion

October 26, 2009

Today’s post is a guest post from Andrew Rondeau. His blog, Great Management, is a great source of information and inspiration for professionals.
Believe it or not, but not everyone wants a great successful career. Not everyone wants to get a promotion and earn more money.
So follow these guidelines and I guarantee you will NOT [...]

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What in your life was a surprise to you?

October 20, 2009

What did you want to be when you were five years old?
Maybe it was a firefighter, or a veterinarian, or President.
At that age, we see everything as a possibility. But truthfully, our view of the future is probably a bit fuzzy.
Even when we get older, when we have a stronger vision of our direction, when [...]

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How does your personal branding message cut through the noise?

October 14, 2009

If you’ve ever been to a networking event, you’ve probably had an experience like this: you meet fifteen or twenty people, and exchange business cards. You have perfectly professional conversations, talking about all the important companies that you’ve worked for, and the projects that you’ve worked on.
Then you go home, and you really remember two [...]

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The new digital divide, or Why Twitter will change the world

October 12, 2009

A couple weeks ago I was at a small gathering of senior-level women, sharing professional experiences in a cozy living room over wine and snacks. I mentioned that I was teaching a two-hour workshop on Twitter for business. The response from one woman was not uncommon. “Two hours? On Twitter?”
The class was last week, and [...]

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Your personal “best”: Authenticity and your job search

July 30, 2009

The Career Adventure newsletter has a new look — it’s now the Career Kick Start!  One minute’s worth of immediately useful career advice delivered weekly.  And it’s free, as is the Results Focused Resume ebook (available through August 5).  You can get both here.
Success in a job interview requires your very best suit, your very [...]

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What is your goal? A job, or the job?

July 29, 2009

This week, Liz Strauss shared this little video on her blog about focusing on the opportunity rather than the job.  Yes, there is a difference.

The distinction here is an important one.  So often people are so focused on what they feel like is the greatest need at this precise moment — often, that’s simply an [...]

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Are you the phoenix? Coping with career challenges

July 27, 2009

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix
–Christina Baldwin
Every hundred years or so, the mythical phoenix torches itself and its nest, to be reborn anew from a single red egg.

The phoenix appears in the mythology of many cultures, and although there are variations on the story, the dramatic fiery rebirth [...]

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