Volunteering to Get a Job The advice to “volunteer to get a job” when you’re looking for employment shows up everywhere. It’s one of those pieces of advice that sounds easy when it’s on paper, but job seekers who have actually tried to follow the advice discover that it’s anything but. Often, the non-profits you’d […]
Does Your Personality Mesh with Your Career
Personality Mesh with Your Career? Your personality is a key factor in finding happiness in your career. Unfortunately, when we make our initial career choices, we may ignore certain key traits or just focus on where we can make the most money. Kinetic Programmer I learned to program computers in high school in the early […]
Retirement and Career Planning – Do You Neglect Both?
Retirement and Career Planning You may be wondering what retirement and career planning have in common. For most baby boomers, we have neglected both! My mantra is I am a baby boomer who was raised to be an employee, and I was to go to work for a father-like company who would take care of […]
Battling Age Discrimination – Young and Old
Battling Age Discrimination Age discrimination is a reality in the current job market. It affects two vastly different groups: Young – The young men and women graduating from college over the last five years have had it tough. In fact, this generation has the highest unemployment in the last fifty years. Age discrimination is rampant […]
Career Reinvention – A Model for Change
Career Reinvention I thought of the term Career Reinvention while listening to a Marshall Goldsmith coaching webinar. He talked about facilitating organizational change. The principles he discussed are directly transferable to career reinvention. He used the model to the right to guide organizations through organizational change. We can apply this same model for career reinvention. […]
Entrepreneur to Employee – Case Study
Entrepreneur to Employee Last month, I wrote about the difficulties in making the entrepreneur to an employee transition. I want to tell you the story of Tom, who is making the entrepreneur to employee transition. Tom was raised by a set of traditional parents. Like most would-be entrepreneurs, Tom was different—in a good way. Tom […]
Workplace Communications – Generational Differences
Workplace Communications Workplace communications have changed dramatically in my lifetime. When I started working as a programmer in Chicago in the mid-1970s, I had a phone on my desk. If I wanted to talk to my boss, I would call him and his secretary would often answer his phone. If he was not there, she […]
Surviving a Resource Action – A Different Perspective
Surviving a Resource Action I have two clients who are surviving a resource action from a major employer. One had her position eliminated, and one was moved to a new position within the organization. Lots of similar emotions for both of them! They are both relieved that the long-awaited resource action has happened. Weeks ago, […]
Entrepreneur to Employee Transition
Entrepreneur to Employee The entrepreneur to employee transition is something I am seeing over and over again. There are a number of reasons this is happening: Baby Boomer business owner who is tired of running their own business. They want to sell but want to continue to work. Baby Boomer business owner or a family member […]
