I’m a so-so networker and truthfully, that’s progress for me. Never one to feel comfortable talking to people I don’t know, crowded noisy networking events— fuhgeddaboudit. It took starting my coaching practice and working with college students who needed help to get over their fears about networking to get me to face my own. Like […]
The wait is over. You got a call from your soon-to-be manager or human resources and you got the job. Did you? No, you did not. It is not an offer until you receive letter, which serves as the legal basis of employment. A verbal offer is great—worthy of celebration, but the employer is not […]
You sit at your computer, log on to your favorite job board, put in your job search keywords, and because your resumé is already uploaded to the site you simply hit submit. Then you wait and wait. No response. No surprise. Sitting in front of your computer is not the way to find a job, […]
Your first few years on the job will set the tone of your early career and can jump-start the next few decades of growth and achievement in the workplace. Here’s what it takes to make the most of your first job. Be a sponge. Take the time to learn everything you can about the company, […]
Interviews are an important screening tool for companies. Done well, an interview helps the hiring manager decide whether you’re a right fit for the position and the company. If you are, you get a job offer. The decision to accept, however, is all you. To decide, you need to learn about the things that are […]
Today’s college students and those of you about to enter college, will reshape the workplace over the next decade by both your attitude and use of new technologies. The way you communicate in your social lives has already been introduced into the workplace, and transformed it by fostering new ways of sharing ideas and collaborating […]
Phone interviewing is unique. You can’t count on visual stimuli such as your good looks or power suits, eye contact or body language, to aid your presentation. Neither can you rely on visual signals to interpret the interviewer’s response. In this context, faceless conversation takes on an added dimension of importance. Both strengths and weakness, […]
I’m not a planner. As much as I like to know what my day and week looks like, and I’m typically the one tapped to plan vacations with friends and family, I like “playing things by ear” and seeing how I feel in the moment. I like the surprise. I like sometimes not knowing what […]
Two articles appeared in this weekend’s New York Times that served as a reminder that the secret to success is never stop learning. Whether employed with a company for many years or just launching your career, it’s always a good idea to continuously be learning new skills. As Randall Stephenson, the chief and chairman of […]
When I was assistant regional manager at The Gillette Company in the early ’80s, I tried to explain to the president why I was not going to relocate across the country again when the step up position was available in my region. I had already moved from San Francisco to Boston to Chicago for the […]