Archive for Career Transitions

Always Be Networking: Advice from Passport2Success

Another run of the speed consulting program for job seekers was sponsored and coordinated by WFMY-TV on May 5, 2010.  Many career coaches in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina volunteered their time.  Here’s a little snippet of video that I contributed between one on one sessions with people looking for advice on their [...]

How to Build a Business That Fits Your Life

Today’s guest author is Sherri Garrity from TheCorporateFugitive.com.  Sherri writes frequent posts on her blog about what it takes to transition from a corporate employee to a self-employed entrepreneur.  When individuals come to me for career transition counseling, one of the options that is often on the table is whether or not freelancing or self-employment [...]

Are You Using Your Assets to Get Americans Back to Work?

Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s contributions to the business of work discourse are usually very good, but the March 1, 2010 post on the Harvard Business Review site (www.hbr.org) was exceptionally relevant and inspiring.  Her title was “Getting Americans Back to Work.” Small and Do-able Ideas Great, you’re thinking, lots of people are writing about that topic [...]

Does Your Career Reinvention Include Solo Consulting?

If your career reinvention includes solo consulting, you may find this helpful from the February 8, 2010 Wall St. Journal: How to Succeed in the Age of Going Solo A few tips from the article: Think long term – given economic forecasts and the shifting employment contract, today’s freelancers and consultants may be on their [...]

LinkedIn Lab Coming Soon

I’ve had some requests to do a LinkedIn(R) Lab similar to the one-hour practical overview that I ran a couple of weeks ago about Twitter.  Right now I am planning to run the LinkedIn Lab on Monday, November 16, 2009 at 5 pm and run it again with the same content on Thursday, November 19, [...]

Job Search & Unemployment Resource for Winston-Salem

Special thanks to Sarah Glover for sharing a first-rate resource from the folks in Winston-Salem, NC.  While the resources listed might not be relevant for all the readers of the blog since we have a national (and even a few outside the U.S.) readership, I still thought I would share the link because there are [...]

Overcoming Job Search Obstacles in Today’s Economy

Joyce Richman, my co-author for the ebook, Getting Your Kid Out of the House and Into a Job, and I were talking the other day.  We both had been hearing a lot from clients and colleagues about how the economy was affecting them.  We ended up talking quite a bit about those who are currently [...]

Online Tools and Your Job Search

I was asked to provide some help around using technology in your job hunt to 250 participants in the June 24, 2009 Passport 2 Success Event held June 24, 2009 in Greensboro, NC. This event was sponsored by WFMY 2 Television as a community service. The idea was to have coaches from a variety of [...]

Job Search Websites

Because I was doing some “curbside consulting” for some people who are in the middle of a job search or career transition, I compiled a list of job search websites as a resource. I still contend that 85% of jobs are filled by using networking — connecting with people you know who know people with [...]