Category Archives: Career Strategies

How to manage everything from a job hunt to strategies for moving ahead on the job.

A Good Interview is Tennis — not Basketball

Which is more important:  a stellar resume or great skill at interviewing?  Interviewing, of course!  So why do clients spend inordinately more time wordsmithing resumes than preparing for interviews?  You are different.  You understand that an interview is a sit-down … Continue reading

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Workplace Demographics: Do Millennials Get the Credit They Deserve?

You’ve heard all the woeful tales of how twentysomethings are worthless, lazy, and shiftless and those are their best qualities.  You know that’s nonsense, don’t you?  It’s Boomers who can’t face their own mortality, much less expendability, who dis the twentysomethings.  … Continue reading

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Boomers, Approaching Poverty, and Career Choice

I don’t want to scare any Boomers –actually I do but for their own good — but you need to read this article today.   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/opinion/nocera-my-faith-based-retirement.html?_r=1.  The author, 60, describes why he will be working until he drops — literally.  His 401K has been through … Continue reading

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