Two years ago Nancy Lowell began a new career as a business coach. The move made sense given her background. She had been a manager with whole Foods and had a successful corporate track record. She was energetic and motivated. Nancy soon became frustrated with her coaching business. She had invested in a franchise, which […]
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Midlife Career Quote: Is it a “fear” or a “no?”
Today’s New York Times magazine included an interesting article on an extreme danger sport – base jumping. People wear special flight suits as they leap off a cliff, experiencing flight sensations for several minutes. You can read the article here. Be warned: it’s not the cheeriest article in the world. One small part of the […]
New job search tool: Add Slide Share To Your LinkedIn Profile
These days you almost always need a LinkedIn profile for a job search. But if you’d really like to come across as different as well as professional, check out this newer social medium: Slide Share. SlideShare will surprise you. It sounds pretty simple: you get to upload and share visual files. Use Powerpoint, PDF, Word […]
Ready for a Career Change? 5 signs
I’ve just been reading a good book: The Myths of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky. I usually don’t like books about happiness because the measurement strikes me as odd: self-ratings of happiness don’t seem very robust. But this book was different. Like many other psychologists, Lyubomirsky points out that it’s human nature to adapt. We think […]
What is a career crisis?
We all have different definitions of a crisis. I know people who think a hangnail is a major crisis. One US White House social secretary told the press they were having a “tablecloth crisis.” I would define a crisis as an event that creates a “before” and an “after.” After the crisis happens, nothing will […]
Career Decision Making: Set A Tripwire
Career challenges often boil down to one thing: decisions. Today’s quote comes from the book, Decisive: How To Make Better Choices In Life And Work, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Heath and Heath say that pilots “are taught to pay careful attention to what are called ‘leemers,’ the feeling that something isn’t right… The […]