Career advisors tend to sum up all their advice in one word: “networking.”
Too old? Too big a resume gap? Bypass the hiring process through networking.
Inevitably my clients groan: “Networking? I knew you were going to say that. I hate to network.”
Frankly, I don’t blame them. The realities:
(1) In my experience, people who have strong […]

By the time the Finale rolled around, did we really care? Did we ever get a clear decision about who wrote the best commercial for the final task?
On the positive side, I think Stefani deserved to be the winner. I was afraid Donald would cave in to demographic pressure. We’ve had winners who are […]

Apprentice Los Angeles is down to the Final Four. The last task was fairly mundane - nothing like the previous finalists who had to run major public events. Here they just completed a fairly bland advertising task.
We can’t get excited about any of the candidates. Nicole hasn’t emerged as strong and certainly hasn’t been a […]

I like this blog entry - David St. Lawrence says we need to think of networking as getting to know people - notnecessarily asking anybody for anything:
http://www.making-ripples.com/2007/04/finding_work_at.html

When I lived in a small New Mexico town, I had lots of time to work on my business as well as my writing. There wasn’t a lot to do in the evening and certainly networking was not an option in my small town.
Now that I’m in Seattle, I’ve launched a networking campaign. I started […]

Watching The Apprentice Los Angeles this week, I was reminded of a conversation about a seemingly unrelated subject: football.
“Larry” had played football in high school and college. When he watches a game, he says, “I would never boo a player. Sometimes one guy seems to make a mistake - but he was doing his […]

Moving with cats? I get a surprising number of questions with this subject line.
So I absolutely loved this story:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Taxi-Move.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The TImes reprinted an Associated Press report: Retiring to Arizona, a couple needed to move themselves and their cats. As long-time New Yorkers, they don’t drive. And they didn’t want their cats to fly.
So they negotiated with […]

In the Columbia Journalism Review, EJ Graff reviews a book about the so-called opt-out revolution: the belief that women with kids decide to “opt out” of the workforce to stay home and be full-time moms.
The link is here:http://www.cjr.org/issues/2007/2/Graff.asp
According to Graff, women don’t really opt out. The current infrastructure gives them few options. With unforgiving companies […]

I was inspired to write this post after reading about a former flight attendant who made a whole bunch of these mistakes. Don’t look now but a lot of smart people make at least one.
Dumb Mistake #1: Posting a photo of yourself in a provocative pose on the Internet.
Dumb Mistake #2: Wearing a company […]

Midlife career change often begins with a move to education.
So I wasn’t surprised to find an article in the Wall Street Journal(Tuesday, March 27, 2007, page B10) featuring a Q&A around the question, “Should I get an Executive MBA after 50?”
Frankly, I wonder why the question even comes up. The real question […]