Job Change and the Hourglass of Eternal Recurrence
This is the time of year when we are regaled with year end reviews—news, movies, musical hits, championships, scandals, and so on. Let’s step away from the usual sort of reviews for a thought...
View ArticleHope Springs Eternal for Career Change
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. – Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man What...
View ArticleFrom Doormat to Driver’s Seat—Career Change in the New Economy
Entering the world of work is like walking through a door. Previously, we could follow a simple formula—go to school, get good grades, go to college or university, get good grades, which gets you a...
View ArticleThis January I Switched to Apple. What are You Tolerating in Your Life?
I’d say it was a long time coming, given that I’ve had nothing but problems with my Dell PCs for the last … oh … 20 years? For the most recent 3 or so of those 20, several of my friends and colleagues...
View ArticleWhat Do Passover’s 4 Questions Have to Do with Our Modern Lives?
Passover started last Monday night and I was fortunate enough to attend a lovely seder (traditional Passover meal) with a family here in Madison. What especially impressed me was that they were open...
View ArticleWhat to do when you decide to change your job.
Many people have expressed displeasure in their current job. Few leave their job for fear they won’t find another one that pays the same or a new job will just end up the same as their current job....
View ArticleWriting the wrongs of job loss
Have you ever lost a job, been terminated one way or another? Not fun, right? Most people feel considerable anger and hostility about their termination experience–It’s not fair! It’s not right! Why me?...
View ArticleWhy I Stayed in a Job I Hated
I stayed in a job I hated because I didn’t think I could do any better. I didn’t know that each day I was there my confidence and esteem were draining away. I didn’t know that I could enjoy my job....
View ArticleAvoid Burnout & Advance Career – Get in the zone!
Flow−the experience we have when we’re “in the zone”−has been studied for decades by psychologist Csikszentmihalyi. During a flow state, people are fully absorbed and highly focused…they lose...
View ArticleManagers Control Timing of Hiring: Get in Their Pipeline
This is one of the key principles that I use when helping my clients find permanent positions. Every hiring manager has a pipeline that they
View ArticleThe Peter-Out Principle
As we get older, it is harder and harder to do work we don’t enjoy. Why? Because our energy gets drained by such work…leaving us less and less energy for what we really want to do. This is the
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Career Change: Is Now the Time?
Recently I published a post about midlife (or other) career change. Related to that is the situation that too many people face–being in a lousy (read: toxic) work situation that clearly isn’t going to...
View ArticleWhy does networking work? – Part 2
In my previous article, I provided job change advice and explained why the biggest source of external hiring for employers is not from resumes submitted online but from referrals. In short, networking...
View ArticleCareer Success–No Fear in 2015
With all that’s been going on in the world during the past months and years, you might roll your eyes at the very thought that you could pursue career success without fear this year, and it would be...
View ArticleIt’s a New Year: Are your career goals organized around solving problems or...
You have a job now, right? And maybe you don’t like it. Or you’ve been thinking about a midlife career change but you don’t know what else you could do and still make money. So, now your life is taken...
View ArticleIs job search a problem to be solved or part of your creative process? – Part 2
In my previous blog on this topic, I asked ‘Are your career goals organized around solving problems or creating what you want?” Whether you are pursuing a short term goal, like getting a new job in the...
View ArticleAre you ready for the new world of work?
It’s easy to manage your career when the world of work is stable and follows a set of rules that both employers and employees agree upon. This was the ‘cradle-to-grave’ job security that formed an...
View ArticleHow our lazy brains block career goals & what to do about it
We are creatures of habit because our brains make us that way! Neuroscience shows that we are motivated to achieve and maintain a comfort zone because our brains equate that state of equilibrium with...
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Fitting Your Square Peg Into Round Hole of Work
Career research has shown that you are more likely to have job satisfaction if you have a work-role fit, one where their core job duties align with their talents, skill sets and motivations. It’s no...
View ArticleCareer Repair: you already have the right tools
From our childhood to our current career, we tend to gravitate towards activities and projects that require our natural strengths. Why? Simple—we get pleasure from using our talents in situations that...
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