7 Ways Your Career Definition Is Holding Yours Back
When you think about your career, how do you define it? What do you mean when you think about your “career?” The traditional definition of a career is “an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s life and with opportunities for progress.” This definition restricts your focus to jobs that can be considered […]
Career Change – Big Changes Require Bold Moves
Do you ever look at others who have achieved great things and think, “They’re different from me. I could never find the courage to take such bold steps?” Don’t sell yourself short. Often, it’s a matter of determining the right career fit and breaking your goals down into attainable steps. Take Todd and Blair Maus, […]
Finding the Right Home (Company) – Stay, Don’t Quit
You are working in a great company with a fulfilling role but your location isn’t ideal. Are you thinking of quitting? Sending in your two weeks notice? Maybe that isn’t the only solution. First, make sure that leaving is the only option. If it is, then well, you have to actively get in the market […]
Handling Salary History & Requirements on Online Job Applications
Clients frequently ask me how soon they should disclose their salary requirements or histories. Typically, I advise them to hold off on revealing these numbers and to postpone discussions about compensation, until there’s a job offer on the table. “Salary Negotiation Rule #1” advocated by one of my mentors, veteran career coach Jack Chapman and […]
The Career Pivot (Your Career Direction)
Change is constant, prevalent, inevitable. We experience it in the weather as temperatures vary, in the seasons as spring cycles to winter, and within ourselves as we accumulate experiences. For most of us, these changes or transitions are characteristically familiar. Similarly, we embrace characteristic changes in our careers, expecting a familiar, linear path of advancement […]