Today’s Guest Post comes from best-selling author Barbara Winter. When funnyman Steve Martin’s book Pure Drivel came out it enjoyed critical raves and enthusiastic sales. Although the author has long been recognized for his fertile comic mind, he told the Today Show’s Matt Lauer that the book would not have happened if he hadn’t taken […]
Career Planning
Biggest career change mistakes… but are they?
One of the monster.com sites came up with these tips – 5 worst career change mistakes. Read the article here. Here’s my take on these mistakes (which are actually written up as tips and warnings, but that’s another story): They advise, “Don’t Look for a Job in Another Field Without Some Intense Introspection.” Well, I […]
Career Planning: Accept a lower salary to get Facebook access at work? I don’t think so…
Recently Fast Company published an article that seemed related to career planning. They asked if twenty-somethings and college students would trade off financial rewards to get more freedom to use Facebook on the job. Read the article here. The respondents insisted that Facebook access and social media were more important than money. The article said: […]
5 Career Planning Tips For Mid-Career Managers
Penelope Trunk’s recent post featured 5 career planning tips for being a good manager. I think they have fairly general applicability. You can read the full post here. Some tips from the article: — Manage conflict. Don’t run from it. Whether it’s your conflict or someone else’s, it probably won’t get resolved on its own. […]
Radical career change: from business executive to neurosurgeon
Exchanging a job for a passion: A neurosurgeon’s story John Seelmeyer, 9/12/2011 From Northern Nevada Business Weekly Christopher Demers sat in a hospital room in 1996, waiting while his wife, Linda, gave birth to the couple’s first son. Waiting and thinking, actually. Waiting and thinking and preparing to make a breath-taking decision, all the more […]
Career Change: Everyone Claims To Be An Expert
Q. “I need a career change, but I’m hesitating to sign up for more career coaching. I’ve already been to two coaches. One coach said, “Just take action and get motivated.” Another administered tests confirming what I already knew.” Sadly, when it comes to careers, everyone’s an expert. My good friend “Ryan” (who’s had one […]