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Over ten years ago, I read a great book The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers by James Citrin and Richard Smith. I pulled the book from my dusty bookshelf the other day and began reading it again. It is interesting
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How can you drop back into the workforce after you have dropped out or been unemployed for a long time?
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When it is time to look for a new career path or even just a new job, many people go straight to LinkedIn or some online job posting site and start applying to jobs. Even though you can sometimes get replies, which is
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Nowadays, the phrase “Follow your passion” in relation to finding a job has become a sure-fire career suicide mission; that is, unless your passion is numbers or something computer-based. It is unfortunate how some
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Marketing, sales, general managers, CEO’s, CFO’s CIO’s CHRO’s are all pretty much in agreement that one of the most difficult challenges every business faces is effective communication. To take that a step further,
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To some people, especially among those who did not grow up with it, the word “social media” is extremely foreign and a little intimidating. Because it can be intimidating and unknown territory, some prefer to cast it
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New Year's is always the time of year that people decide to change their behavior to somehow make their lives better. Some people promise themselves to diet and exercise, other promise to quit smoking or volunteer more.
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It is not unusual at any time to experience some despondency during career transition, and it is a normal emotion as long as you don’t dwell too long in that space. In your job search, especially during the holiday
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There has been an interesting debate that has been started resulting from a Harvard Business Review magazine article by Ram Charan. In the article titled “It’s Time to Split HR” he writes that that the traditional CHRO
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I just completed a great book titled The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh. The book tackles one of the biggest business challenges that exists today – the
