Time management is an important topic for busy executives. However, when you work for a company, you often find that your schedule somehow fills itself. You have meetings. You respond to questions from your subordinates and complete projects assigned by your bosses. Most important, you have a sense of what you need to do to […]
Relocation Stress: A Couple Moves From NY To Houston
Today’s New York Times featured an article about a couple who moved from New York to Lubbock, Texas, and finally ended u in New Orleans. The wife began as a trailing spouse and found her way to a new career. Read the article here. Look up my Report on dealing with the stresses of relocation. […]
Get career information you need for your career change
Career changers often realize they need information before making a commitment to change, but its not always clear what career information will be critical to your unique challenge. You need more than answers: you need questions. For example, consider a career changer we can call Suzanne. Suzanne outgrew her stuffy finance job after ten exhausting […]
Another career myth: Career change is a straight line.
Most career change comes about through serendipity, not linear planning. Research shows that nearly every career choice and career change includes an element of luck or chance. For example, you run into an old college friend who tells you about a job opening in his company. You hadn’t considered this field but you take the […]
How To Handicap Your Career With Too Much Information
Today’s Wall Street Journal features an article on the dangers of TMI: sharing Too Much Info with colleagues at work. See When Oversharing Invades The Office by Elizabeth Bernstein. Some examples from people interviewed for the article: A young man shares that he shaved his entire body for a bike race. A woman blurts that […]
Overqualified but happy to have a job
That was the title of a recent New York Times article. You can read it here. The gist of the article is this: In today’s tight job market, companies can attract talent they’d ordinarily never see. And despite conventional wisdom, many of these overqualified hires are working out. Here’s what I think (and please add […]