This past weekend, Kate and I were at a friend’s party. Since most of the people there didn’t know who we were, we would get the basic questions, including asking us what we did for work. Once you say you are a career management consultant, you start getting the career management questions along with the… Continue Reading
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Persistent Layoffs Equals Time to Leave
There is the temporary, one-time financial loss to deal with and then there are persistent losses over time. The one-time loss is the blip on the radar screen and we move on. But persistent losses resulting in layoffs are different and can harm Cubicle Warriors. Persistent layoffs usually happen because of transformational shifts in the… Continue Reading
Evaluating the company transfer
Moving with your employer to another state or country used to be good all around. The reason was the transfer often was the result of a promotion and the opportunity for more responsibility. In addition, there was a decent amount of employer loyalty left in the marketplace so that you knew if you transferred, you… Continue Reading
Job Interviews for Dummies
If you read the news, you’d think every company on the planet was laying people off. Certainly, we’ve seen a lot more people heading out for job interviews — and getting shocked at the Interview Gauntlet. So I asked Joyce Lain Kennedy, author of Job Interviews For Dummies, 3rd Edition, published in January of this… Continue Reading
Book Review: EPIC Change — How to Lead Change in the Global Age
Once in a while, a great book comes along that provides a unique, actionable and powerful viewpoint in business. EPIC Change: How to Lead Change in the Global Age by Timothy R. Clark is such a book. Book Description EPIC Change describes the strategies and offers great tactics to execute a successful change. “Change fails… Continue Reading
Cube Rules Philosophy
Regular readers of this blog will note that I have not posted here in a week — unusual, to say the least. I even set up posts for when I was on vacation for eleven days in Costa Rica (171 pics here on Flickr) in February and checked the blogs from there for comments. In… Continue Reading
What is a good job?
I wanted to go back a bit to the Employee Satisfaction Survey link that I had a few posts ago. In it, Dave Roberts notes in Young Feds that he was on a project that went to six cities across the country and tried to answer a basic question: What is a good job? This… Continue Reading
Passion and Pay
I was surfing other blogs, reading about business. I subscribe to over 100 blogs, not all business, but am always on the lookout for something interesting to read. And to learn. Over on Slacker Manager last week, there was this interesting post written by Kareem as part of “guest blogging day” where anyone registered could… Continue Reading
Laid Off: Enjoying the moment
Much of career management and personal branding is strategy and tactics. If we do this, then that will happen. At least we hope it does. Career management is future-oriented. What we work on now builds for what we want to happen in the future. So we plan, work the plan, check out our environment to… Continue Reading