I’m not really normal

While visiting relatives in our hometown of Tulsa last week, I found myself on kitchen duty with my brother-in-law one afternoon. Cleaning the kitchen during the holidays is somewhat like trying to hit a moving target, because the activity never really ends — it just reaches a lull between two peaks.
But we eventually conquered the [...]

“A Brand You World” recordings now available

Great news! A few weeks back, I encouraged you to sign up for the Personal Branding Telesummit on November 7. If you missed this excellent event, you can still listen in by downloading the session recordings. These sessions are loaded with great information. And best of all, they are free! Enjoy…

Informational interviews

The informational interview is one of the most useful and yet under-utilized career management tools. I’ve become a big proponent of informational interviews ever since conducting my first one several months ago. When I’m among job seekers, I often ask if they are including informational interviews as part of their strategy. Many have never heard [...]

Finding your passion

In her Shifting Careers blog this week, Marci Alboher shares an interesting self-assessment exercise. It is designed by career coach Michael Melcher (aka The Creative Lawyer) for people who are searching for passion in their careers.
According to Melcher, many of his clients don’t know what they want to do with their careers; they may have [...]

Flexible careers: a new model?

Many companies are starting to offer flexible work arrangements as one way to retain the best talent. But is that enough to attract and retain talented employees over the long haul, or is it a stop-gap measure? Is it time to fundamentally change the way we think about careers?
In an interesting article from today’s Financial [...]

Shifting Careers

I referred to a column written by Marci Alboher a couple of months ago, and that led me to start reading her columns periodically. I was pleased to discover recently that Marci is now writing a new blog for the New York Times called Shifting Careers.
If you haven’t discovered Marci’s writings, you should check out [...]

From Soft Serve to Iron Lady

Are you thinking about changing careers? If so, you are in good company (more about that in a moment).
The U.S. Department of Labor Statistics reports that the average worker makes more than three career changes during their working life. That’s career changes — not job changes. Careers can transcend many job changes, so [...]

Job search vs career management

There is a big difference between job search and career management. Job search is more like an event that commences when you need a job and ends when a new job is secured. Career management, on the other hand, is a mindset that transcends job changes.
Back when the average worker went to work for a [...]

Chimby search engine

I just recently discovered Chimby, an innovative career advice search engine. What exactly is Chimby? According to the site:
CHIMBY is a vertical search engine that lets you search over 400 career advice sites at once. We crawl the sites of career coaches, career blogs and other media sources in order to provide the best answers [...]

Introducing Jobfox

I just discovered this really cool new career site called Jobfox, and wanted to pass it along. You can read more about it in this Forbes.com article.
The site is designed to compete directly with the mega job boards Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com. One might think it is crazy to take on these giants, unless you consider [...]