•"Workaholic" Doesn't Sell on a Resume
Yes, yes, all work and no play makes Jack and Jill a dull boy and girl.
I'm not telling you anything you haven't heard before - but the four most dangerous words in the English language are, "I already know that." So give a listen one more time - it might sink in better than it ever has before.
No one ever tells you, the executive, manager, or C-level professional to work FASTER, right? Smarter, sure. Harder, yes. Faster? No way.
In fact, when it comes to speed, the only advice anyone gets...
•Career Education Doesn't Stop at the Executive Offices
When some people reach a certain level in your executive career, they start to ... well, coast a bit sometimes.
Are you one of them? Be honest, now. Have you decided - actively or not - that you already know enough, and don't need to continue improving your skill set?
Call it a feeling of invincibility. It has its advantages in the business world, but it can have its drawbacks, too. Particularly when you start thinking about changing careers, and especially when you start thinking about...
•Free Online Learning Opportunities to Bolster Your Resume and Reputation
Online classes, or "distance learning," used to have a meaning limited to computer-based interaction with teachers and students. And unfortunately, the concept got tarred with a bad brush for a while.
Particularly in the case of online-only institutions, which were often compared to diploma mills and old-school correspondence courses, online learning went through a period where the concept had to fight for respectability.
And if we're being completely honest, it affected hiring decisions,...
•Fun With Resumes and Executive Job Searches
Job hunting? Fun? Surely you're joking.
Someone recently described job hunting to me as a "grueling and decidedly unpleasant activity. After all, what could be more tiring than going from one place to another and peddling yourself?"
It's hard to argue that point, especially when you hear reports about the average number of months (4) it takes people - even executives and managers - to land a new position. And the articles talking about the hundreds of resumes submitted for a given position....
•Get Happy, Get Educated, Get Your Resume in Order
Someone told me recently that studies show our occupations play a major role in the overall quality of our lives.
In other words, the job you hold more or less determines just how happy you'll be.
It seems like common sense. After all, if you're in a bad mood for eight or more hours every day at work, do you think you'll just magically snap out of it on the commute home? Do you stay happy and jolly on the ride in to a miserable management situation?
Of course not.
In this type of...
•Give Your Career Search a Boost With Blogging
Even if you're not looking for a job right now, it might be time to consider starting your own blog.
I've been reading Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, and it's got advice that's helpful not just to businesses, but to professionals as well. Specifically:
* C-level executives
* Senior managers
* Mid-career professionals, and
* Anyone business person with lots of experience to draw from and share with an online audience
If Google is not just a search engine, but a...
•Salary Research Makes Your Executive Job Search More Profitable
How about that Robert Wright? He got more than $15.6 million in compensation from General Electric in 2006, including $520,291 in above-market earnings on an employee salary deferral plan.
But if you're thinking about a job change - regardless of whether you're after a payday like Robert Wright's - money's still something to consider. And until recently, I thought Salary.com was the only game in town when it comes to doing research on salary rates.
Turns out I was wrong. One source is...
•What to Do Before You Walk Into the Executive Interview Room
Each year, millions of people go job hunting in an effort to find better and higher-paying jobs. And each year, millions of people fail to land those jobs.
Only a select few ever get the job of their dreams - the rest are stuck in their same-old, same-old jobs (yes, even executive and management-level positions can get boring after a spell).
The sad thing about the entire situation is that most of the people who "lost out" didn't have to. Many of them have the skills, the experience, and the...
•What's the Best Time for a Career Change?
? I've been asked if there's ever one time that's better than another for a career change, and the simplest answer I have is, "When you're ready for it."
It sounds like a bit of a flip answer, but I assure you, it's anything but. There's never one time that's better than another. Too many variables for too many individual situations make it impossible to pick just one moment.
And what's more, until you're truly ready for it, you're not going to be "into it," so to speak. You won't have the...
•You're Saying One Thing, but Your Body's Saying Another in Your Executive Interview...
Whether you've gone on dozens of interviews yourself, or conducted dozens more, it's always worth a little time brushing up on your interview skills - especially the ones that most people aren't even trying to control, despite how helpful (or damaging) those skills might be.
We're talking about body language, and if you've made it to the short list of candidates being interviewed for that executive position, there's no sense in getting sabotaged by some errant twitch you never knew you had....
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