Career strategy requires planning for difficult situations that tax your physical and mental health. One of the toughest challenges that people bring to career coaches is, “My boss is a bully.” A workplace bully can be a major source of career stress. It is important to handle the bully boss carefully without doing serious harm […]
Career strategy: Investment Research
Before you invest in a stock you might ask your broker what kind of research has been done on the company issuing the stock. You might be especially interested in recent developments: a new patent, a lawsuit, a catastrophe, or even a world event that affects the company. For instance, an airline that draws significant […]
Career Strategy: Invest in Career Insurance To Minimize Impact of Job Loss
Here’s an article with the title of Five Rules for Job Security from the CBS Moneywatch site. But in fact they are not about giving you job security. Nobody can do that. Instead, they are about mitigating the effects of job loss and protecting your financial security in the event of job loss. The distinction […]
Mid-Life Career Change: Choosing an MBA or Doctoral Program Online
Choosing the wrong school can be hazardous to your bank account, your goals and even your current job. On October 10, 2004, Sixty Minutes (a CBS-TV news program) featured a segment about a “university” that claimed to offer degrees through online courses. Many students believed they were signing up for a legitimate program. After all, […]
Aging Gracefully and Graciously (If you’re healthy, wealthy and aged 50-75)
Review of The Third Chapter: Passion Risk and Adventure in the 25 Years after 50 Author: Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Published in 2009 by Sarah Crichton Books, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux As a sometime career consultant, I continue to search for a book targeting people at mid-life. This book seems to be about […]
Learning from the Amanda Knox case: thoughts on career image
Living in Seattle, I have met people who knew Amanda Knox and even more people who knew people who knew the young woman now convicted of murder in Italy. I’ll forego comments on whether she might be guilty or innocent. But I want to point out what many in the media noticed: the impression Amanda […]