Career planning can be especially scary during tough economic times. One of your greatest challenges will be separating fact from rumor. There’s always a small group of employees drinking coffee and complaining. Are they right? Or are they fear-mongers to be avoided? (1) Learn to recognize the difference between good gossip and malicious rumors. You […]
Academic Careers: What the Media Don’t Tell You In The Amy Bishop Case
One of the many observations we can make about the Amy Bishop case: It’s hard to understand the culture of a profession from the outside. Tenure is critical to academics. Originally the idea was to protect free speech. Nowadays I think many professors acknowledge they would not undertake a long and arduous education just to […]
Academic Careers: Reading Between The Lines on Amy Bishop’s Saga
One issue that keeps coming up in the infamous case of Amy Bishop is, “Why did she add her children as authors on her research papers?” I was an academic before 20+ years, in the marketing department of business schools, before retiring early. Here’s my interpretation of events. Whether the kids contributed or not isn’t […]
Career Change: Relocating for a new job? Have a Plan B.
(3) Create a Plan B before you move. You may decide you absolutely, positively cannot live in your new location. Your personality and lifestyle may be at odds with the local culture. You may lack access to something you didn’t realize you needed for your physical and mental well-being. Don’t assume that you are safe […]
Relocation: Consider the trade-offs
Relocation has been rated as one of the most stressful experiences anyone can have. It’s up there with widowhood, job loss and serious illness. Your first question should be, “What are my trade-offs?” You may think you have to move to a new city to be closer to your family, giving up a wonderful job […]
Career Change Book: Recommended
So far I’ve found two career books to recommend: Working Identity (Herminia Ibarra) and Finding Your Own North Star (Martha Beck). Now I’m adding this one to the list. Beck focuses mostly on choosing what you want; Ibarra talks about the search process. Now I recommend The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention by Pamela Mitchell. […]