Even in the best of times, job hunting can be daunting, challenging and stressful. It can wreak havoc on your emotional state and self-esteem. Is a positive executive job search experience even possible for most people? It's difficult to keep a positive mindset when you're job hunting because …
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How To Stay Sane and Curb Job Search Anxiety
No doubt about it, job search ranks right up there as one of the most challenging life transitions you may have to cope with . . . right along with divorce, having a baby and moving. Unless you're very lucky, your job search will have a fair amount of let-downs and rejections. And it will …
How To Deal With Job Search Stress
Are you dealing with job search stress? Everyone deals with stress on some level, at any given time in their lives. When you're actively job hunting, your stress level is probably heightened. Job search stress is a given when you're job hunting. It comes with the territory, unless you're very …
Are You Happy in Your Job?
Are you someone who followed a career path that was chosen for you, or one which your family or friends heavily influenced you to follow? Whether or not it was your choice, are you happy in your job? People often come to despise their jobs if they reluctantly followed that path . . . either from …
Salary Negotiation Tips, Pitfalls and a Checklist
Congratulations. You have found a job in your chosen field, one that interests you and is with a company you have confidence in and want to continue your career with. The company is impressed with your candidacy, and they want you to be an important part of their team. If you’ve made it this far …
Explore. Dream. Discover. Work Your Passion!
You deserve to work your passion. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain The …
Post-COVID-19 Job Search: What’s Changing
Job search has always been complicated and often daunting. Job search during (and post) pandemic is even more so. Everyone involved is scrambling to adjust to the new challenges that have come with the pandemic. I've pulled together resources and advice from various experts in different …
Oh, How the New LinkedIn Has Changed!
I just completed updating my 3 executive job search ebooks. Most of the strategies I recommend in them haven’t changed much over the past year but, as I got into LinkedIn particulars, I quickly realized that my content updates were going to take a lot longer than I …
Personal Branding and Executive Job Search Guide – Revised and Updated for 2015
Having trouble getting a handle on defining and building your personal branding, and navigating today’s executive job search? Not sure what to do first and what NOT to do? My popular executive job search readiness ebook will help you. First published in 2011, I’ve just finished revising and …
Gratitude: The Happiness Drug
The title of Dave Kerpen's Inc.com article, The Legal Drug That Nobody's Talking About, struck a chord. When I saw that “gratitude” was the drug, I was struck by the wisdom, and wanted to see if his attitude of gratitude works the same way as mine. Sure enough, when his first reaction to a …