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What to Do Before You Walk Into the Executive Interview Room
Each year, millions of people go job hunting in an effort to find better and higher-paying jobs. And each year, millions of people fail to land those jobs.
Only a select few ever get the job of their dreams - the rest are stuck in their same-old, same-old jobs (yes, even executive and management-level positions can get boring after a spell).
The sad thing about the entire situation is that most of the people who lost out didn't have to. Many of them have the skills, the experience, and the...
3 Steps to Making the Informational Interview Work for You
In talking about interviews, we have to widen the net to include a couple of other topics. These days, the interview process often includes behavioral and skills testing, and people who talk about interviews often focus on the on-the-nose issue of the job interview, to the exclusion of the highly useful and related topic of the informational interview.
But if you're really determined to get the job you want, it may be time to embrace the informational interview as part of a more complete job...
Workaholic Doesn t Sell on a Resume
Yes, yes, all work and no play makes Jack and Jill a dull boy and girl.
I'm not telling you anything you haven't heard before - but the four most dangerous words in the English language are, I already know that. So give a listen one more time - it might sink in better than it ever has before.
No one ever tells you, the executive, manager, or C-level professional to work FASTER, right? Smarter, sure. Harder, yes. Faster? No way.
In fact, when it comes to speed, the only advice anyone gets or...
Salary Research Makes Your Executive Job Search More Profitable
How about that Robert Wright? He got more than $15.6 million in compensation from General Electric in 2006, including $520,291 in above-market earnings on an employee salary deferral plan.
But if you're thinking about a job change - regardless of whether you're after a payday like Robert Wright's - money's still something to consider. And until recently, I thought Salary.com was the only game in town when it comes to doing research on salary rates.
Turns out I was wrong. One source is...
Career Education Doesn t Stop at the Executive Offices
When some people reach a certain level in your executive career, they start to ... well, coast a bit sometimes.
Are you one of them? Be honest, now. Have you decided - actively or not - that you already know enough, and don't need to continue improving your skill set?
Call it a feeling of invincibility. It has its advantages in the business world, but it can have its drawbacks, too. Particularly when you start thinking about changing careers, and especially when you start thinking about...
The Three Worst Things You Can Do With Networking Events
I'm sharing this little tidbit because I can always use the occasional reminder, and I bet many of you can, too. Even if you aren't thinking about switching jobs right now, aren't writing and re-writing your resume, are perfectly happy with your executive position, there's great value to be had in building and freshening your business network.
It doesn't require any more social skills than having polite conversations with the gardener, the guy at the checkout counter, the gal on the customer...
What s the Best Time for a Career Change
? I've been asked if there's ever one time that's better than another for a career change, and the simplest answer I have is, When you're ready for it.
It sounds like a bit of a flip answer, but I assure you, it's anything but. There's never one time that's better than another. Too many variables for too many individual situations make it impossible to pick just one moment.
And what's more, until you're truly ready for it, you're not going to be into it, so to speak. You won't have the...
Give Your Career Search a Boost With Blogging
Even if you're not looking for a job right now, it might be time to consider starting your own blog.
I've been reading Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, and it's got advice that's helpful not just to businesses, but to professionals as well. Specifically:
* C-level executives
* Senior managers
* Mid-career professionals, and
* Anyone business person with lots of experience to draw from and share with an online audience
If Google is not just a search engine, but a...
The Best Laid Plans of Your Executive Career Search
I'm writing this while thinking about how we all start the year off with the best of intentions. The resolutions, the promises, the goals we set for ourselves.
If the word on the street is to be believed, very few people follow through on these commitments.
Sometimes it's because we set too high a bar for ourselves. Sometimes we never fill in the how that would fill out a successful Point A to Point B trip.
When it comes to our careers, though, it's easy to fall into another trap - to put...
The Counter Intuitive Secret to Success in the Workplace
My whole philosophy about fun in the world of business, and in relation to the executive, management, and professional audience is this: If you don't enjoy what you're doing, is it worth doing?
Because the higher up you go, the easier it is to think that you have to get more serious about the work you do. Well, you were serious about it when you were lower down the totem pole, weren't you? And you were still having fun then.
A lot of this has to do with responsibility. As we add on more, we...
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