Job Hopping: A Smart Career Strategy!
During my 30 year career in “Corporate America”, I worked 14 years with my first employer and 16 subsequent years with 6 different employers. I increased my income and job satisfaction tremendously during the second half of my career because I changed employers proactively whenever I was able to find something better. Despite the potential …
Recruiting the Effective Job Applicant
While there is no perfect employee, some job seekers are much more effective than others. These are the individuals who are indispensable to their companies.
By effective, I am referring to someone who delivers results. They don’t need to be micromanaged. Recruiting the effective job applicant means staffing someone who is going to deliver earnings.…
Three Tips to Clean Up Your Digital Dirt
Don’t think your online activities can hurt you? Just ask former Congressman Anthony Weiner who is now a joke, not because of his name, or at least not because of his name alone, but also because he Tweeted pictures of his privates. Or rapper 50cent who complained on Twitter that his grandmother told him to …
Career Coaching: Getting Help Is for Wimps?
I just finished working with a client who landed a new job that better utilizes her talents while offering greatly improved income, promotional opportunity, and company environment/culture. At the end of our multi-month journey together, she said to me without prompting “I couldn’t have done it without you.” Her comment was personally flattering and reaffirmed …
Turn Your Spare Time into Extra Income
Do you want to have an additional income source other than your full-time job? Or maybe you are only employed part-time and you need more work. If you want to find out how to earn some extra money, keep on reading.
Nowadays companies are trying to cut their costs and unfortunately, the easiest way of …
Seven Tips for Acing Your Interviews
In today’s competitive job market, face-to-face job interviews are like gold. Once you get one, you need to do everything you can to perform your best and come out on top. And job interview skills have become even more important when you consider that you will probably need to change jobs more often in the …
Your Online Brand: LinkedIn, or Just another Pretty Facebook?
Social media is all the rage. Even Fortune500 companies, who are always on the trailing edge of technology, are getting into it. How about you? Is your personal brand supported well by your social media footprint and activities, or not? There are dozens of social media sites, but I will be limiting this post to …
Key Salary Negotiation Tips
Salary negotiation is a tricky thing. Pushing to see what you can get is human nature, but an inexpert maneuver on your end could potentially sour your employment relationship before it’s even begun.
Here are four tried-and-true tactics to help you get closer to the salary you want without touching any employer sore spots:
1.…Lessons From Parenting: Rewarding Good Values/Character Spurs Motivation
If you are one of those people who wants to earn a higher salary (and feels you are deserving of more money) then this is the article for you! Candidates who feel they are driven more by money than by contributing to the mission of the firm, turn off employers. Everyone wants to be compensated …
Four Strategies for Your Job Search Networking
Various studies have found that 45% to 70% of job seekers got their jobs through networking. More recently, a survey by Lou Adler discovered that 60% of the job seekers he surveyed found their jobs through networking. In a recent article titled Hire Economics: Why Applying to Jobs Is a Waste of Time, Mr. Adler …