As a career consultant, I’m on the lookout for books to recommend to my clients, especially those faced with unexpected job loss. Career Comeback passes the test. One preliminary note: The cover refers to failed business ventures, but this topic does not appear to be covered. Publishers, not authors, usually write cover copy, so we […]
Career Advice and Opinions
Center Stage: A Career Change Fable for Our Time
This movie illustrates one of the critical steps in any transition: listening to your environment and responding to your strengths and desires — even if everyone around you thinks you’ve lost your mind. I won’t claim that Center Stage is a great movie (the reviews were mixed), but I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes realism and the […]
Career Advice: Do You Have To Say Yes?
Sunday’s New York Times features a section called the Career Couch. Each week a pressing problem is offered for career advice. This week, the question was about handling the difficult situation when your boss adds more tasks to your workload than you have time to do properly. Read the full article here. Career advice from […]
Penelope Trunk As Career Counselor: Surviving A Bad Economy and Why She Doesn’t Like Tim Ferriss
OK, Penelope Trunk thrives on being outrageous. She’s shared a hefty dose of information about her own life (did you know her original name was Adrienne?). She’s written about her own relationship issues, therapy and mental health issues. But mostly she’s been an advocate of an outrageous approach to what used to be called career […]
Bad career advice is everywhere
Here’s one on career change, from a top-rated website: Hiring managers will see your passion and how it relates to their business, and they want to hire that,” Newall says. The key is “and how it relates to their business.” Passion is nice but what they want to know is, “How soon can you make […]
How to Choose and Use Career Assessments For Your Career Change
Many mid-life professionals who seek a career change begin with assessments. I believe our culture encourages testing. We like to look at numbers; after all, we measure cholesterol and lung capacity so why not measure career aptitude? The truth is … Experienced scientists and statisticians will be skeptical of any tests because: (1) Some qualities […]