Most people believe job search is scary. I can certainly understand why. After all, you don’t know what’s out there, not exactly. You’re filled with anxiety, nervousness, even fear – along with the feelings that caused you to no longer be at your last ...
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Our exclusive Recruiter Confidence Index tracks how confident executive recruiters are that the executive hiring market will improve over the next six months. Right now, the Index has rebounded from the depths of September and reached just over 40% for the ...
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I just hung up the phone after a call with a man named John. He’d recently activated Premium Access and just had his 60-minute conversation with one of our career strategists. For the first time in his 8-months and counting job search he feels confident, no ...
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It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. That’s how I feel about “Someday Isle.”
What’s Someday Isle, you ask? It’s the place people who are always saying, “Someday I’ll…” go after a while.
Getting stuck on ...
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Last time, I wrote about how milestones such as graduations force us to consider what’s next and how when you get to our level there aren’t such obvious opportunities for such reflection.
We have to build these opportunities into our lives. In a way, I ...
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It’s graduation season. I am past those years now; in terms of my kids, my sights are now set on when will one of them give us a grandchild. But for those of you who have a “gradchild” it is one of those monumental, special times.
There is a lesson ...
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When Stephanie, the CMO of a biotech company, was laid off, what did she do first?
She grabbed a spoon and attempted to soothe her sorrow with an entire pint of Ben and Jerry’s Chocolatey Love A-fair, with an assist from the sixth and final season of ...
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Last time, I wrote to you I shared that I was listening to a call between one of our Career Strategists and an executive. He had multiple ideas on what he should do next, needed his resume updated, and had no concrete plan for deciding what was the right next ...
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Recently, I listened in on a call between one of our Career Strategists, Saundra Botts, and an executive who was considering retaining our services to help with his job search. What jumped out at me was how natural the conversation felt, and I realized that ...
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It’s never too late to reach your goals.
You may think you’ve missed your chance to reach your goals at some point in your career, but if you can still work you can still get to where you want to be.
Look at the National Championship UCONN Huskies. ...
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I am NFL fan, so I have been following the drama surrounding Aaron Rodgers this offseason. While I am not a Packers fan, I can’t help but admire Rodgers’ skill and the career that he’s had. He’s an easy choice for the Hall of Fame when he hangs up his ...
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I talk with hundreds of executives every year, and one thing I find that so many of the ones who are unhappy with their situations do is say “no” to opportunities. They say no to the very idea of exploring opportunities.
What got me thinking about ...
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