Step 1 was 30 days without television. If that seems too tough, no problem. We’ll have others. Today’s step isn’t easy either. Take the Friend Inventory. You are the sum of the 5 people you spend the most time with. I don’t know the origin of this statement, but I’ve seen it on blogs and […]
Career Advice and Opinions
Career change without career change: Step 2b
How to tell when it’s time to toss outdated inventory and get a shipment of new people in your life: (1) When you talk to someone, you feel drained afterward. (2) You seem to have less motivation as the days, weeks and months go by. (3) You stop seeking ways to grow. (4) You feel […]
Career Change without career change
Often the biggest career change happens when you are not focusing on your career: you pay attention to the rest of your life. So with a career in the doldrums, here are some things you can do to explode yourself into a new life. I’ll blog more about each of these in the days and […]
Dress for success? What does that mean?
I have to admit I’m enjoying the debate on women and pantyhose: should an employer require women to wear them. Some time ago Wall Street Journal pointed out some pitfalls of a dress code. Men can get into a lot of trouble when they tell women how to dress. What I don’t understand: Why don’t […]
Job Search Goes Virtual: Lose the Paper Resume
In her wonderful blog, Shifting Careers, Marci Alboher introduces a new free resource for creating your virtual resume. Click here to learn why creating a virtual resume has become critical – and how you can use LinkedIn to “flirt” with future employers.
Defying stereotypes of academic careers and West Point cadets
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 […]