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10 Steps To Protect Your Career In Tough Times by Ramon Greenwood - Jul, 2009 It's an unsettling fact: we are in one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression. Layoffs are being felt across the board. Indicators suggest that more are yet to come before a turn-around begins. Better to face reality than to hide our heads in the sand expecting a miracle. Now's the time to focus on recession-proofing your job so as to move forward on your career path. One school of thought holds tha... |
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Take A Step Back In Your Career by Deborah Brown-Volkman - Jul, 2009 Are you moving forward in your career? Or, are you spinning your wheels wondering when the spinning will stop? Do you feel at times that you are working hard, but not seeing the results you want? That you are trying to push your way past a brick wall that won't budge? Rather than pushing forward which is causing stress and frustration, why not pull back instead? In order to move forward in your career, sometimes you ha... |
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Choosing A Path by Nan S. Russell - Jun, 2009 Reading in the airport while waiting for a flight to Houston, a housekeeper was tidying around me when approached by another facilities employee. After a few minutes of easily overheard chit-chat, she received coaching from her now apparent supervisor. "You know," he said "I'd like you to pace yourself." Intrigued by his words, I stopped reading to eavesdrop and heard as he told her, "You're doing too good a job. You don't ... |
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Career Crevasse by Thomas J. Denham - Jun, 2009 As a professional career counselor for over 19 years, I have helped all types of people make transitions in their personal and professional lives. I motivate them climb to the top of life so they can enjoy the view. Last month, I attempted to climb Mt. Rainier in the Cascade Mountains as chronicled in the Albany Times Union on Thursday, May 28th. On Summit Day at 4am, I plummeted unexpectedly down a huge crevasse and was ... |
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Career Roundabout Syndrome by Thomas J. Denham - Jun, 2009 I have a lot of clients that are at a crossroads and need help with direction. After I conduct an intake of their situation, I learn that most have several ideas of where they would like to go, but are just not sure where to turn. I call this “Career Roundabout Syndrome.” Where I live in Albany, NY, these traffic circles are popping up everywhere, and for some they are difficult to navigate. There are some distinct met... |
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Career Success in 3 Steps by Thomas J. Denham - Jun, 2009 When most clients come to me, they have hit a crossroad in their career development. They are hungering for concrete guidance and direction. They simply don’t know where to turn next. It’s a well kept secret that successful career development is a sequential three step process of self-assessment, career exploration and then action plan. Action plan can take the form of either: 1) doing a job search 2) going back to s... |
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What You Say Alters Your Outcome by Kris Parfitt - Jun, 2009 GMX, a free email service, released the results of a survey of over 1,000 American adults who use email for professional and personal communications. They found that more than 50% of email readers will judge people personally and professionally based on the format and content of their email. They also found that 58% of email users confessed that they judge the writer’s intelligence on the language used, tone of email and writi... |
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Staying Competitive in Your Organization by Julie Cohen - Jun, 2009 In today’s economic situation, having and holding your job cannot be assured. We are no longer living in a world where the organization one works for has any guaranteed loyalty to its employees. What then can you do to stack the deck in your favor? You need to make yourself irreplaceable to your boss, your team and your company. Do this by providing extreme value both internally, within your organization, AND externally, to yo... |
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Turning a Career Meltdown into a New Beginning by Elizabeth Freedman - May, 2009 Eight years ago, I had a career meltdown. Given that this also was the year of the September 11th terrorist attacks and a period of dramatic economic downturn in the United States, I suppose, in hindsight, that my career problems seem a tad unimportant by comparison. But if you’ve ever been in a situation where you find yourself wondering what happened to your career, how you’re going to hold on to the job you’ve got without... |
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Leveraging Your Future by Nan S. Russell - May, 2009 A friend's hairstylist saw her bookings drop as the economy fell, ultimately losing her job at a salon. But when my friend asked her if she'd be willing to make a house-call to style her ailing mother's hair, the stylist saw an opportunity. Ultimately, she launched a specialized in-home business and now makes more money than she ever did. In these difficult times I'm enamored by this simple success story. I regularly talk ... |
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