Q: I would like to get into college teaching, after several year in corporate life. I have no teaching experience but have made lots of presentation.
A. I’ve taught college level courses as full-time, tenured and adjunct faculty. I’ve taught online and offline, in classrooms and conference rooms. So I love this question.
(1) You absolutely need […]

Marci Alboher writes in her blog about the book Sway — why we respond to irrational impulses.
Interviewing the authors, she uncovered an important reality: first impressions count.
One described a lawyer who worked hard to impress everyone as a hard worker: first in, last out, few breaks, no personal calls. As time went on, […]

Elizabeth Samet holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale, all in English literature. So she’s hardly the type you’d expect to find teaching cadets at West Point.
But Samet accepted a position there in 1996, to the surprise (and, I suspect, consternation) of her academic colleagues. She found surprising rewards and revelations, […]

I once got a call from a life coach looking for a new career. I agreed to talk for 15 minutes at no charge. As we got into the conversation, she mentioned that she was talking to 21 coaches before making up her mind. She followed up our call with a dozen more questions
I could […]

It’s always hard to give up a steady source of income. Experienced career counselors will caution, “Hang on to your job until you’ve got another opportunity lined up.” And you’ve heard the advice, “Don’t quit your job till you’ve got another one.”
Mostly that’s good advice. I say the same thingi when clients ask.
But sometimes […]

I just got a nice email from someone who saw my amazon review of Barbara Sher’s book, Refuse to Choose.
So I went back to the review and found a few comments, both pro and con. The review really expresses a lot of my philosophy of career change and coaching. I cover some myth of academic […]

In the Chronicle of Higher Education, a newspaper targeted to anyone even remotely connected to academia, Brandon Withrow ponders this question in an article “Not Your Father’s PhD.” You can read it here.
I would agree with those who say you’ll be better equipped to work with today’s students if you understand modern techo-tools. One of […]