Great Occupations

In this week's Friday Feature - "What Other Experts Are Saying"... How to re-energize your job hunt; are you smarter than a 6-yr old?; and recruiters are finding candidates differently these days.... Read the rest of this entry »

"No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him." -James Russell Lowell. A few months ago, a woman at one my workshops was stumped with a series of questions during the group-sharing portion of the module. The answer to these questions would reveal her childhood gifts and early interests, which would point the way to her work and the way she would... Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes making a change of direction can be daunting. So daunting that you sort of freeze up and say to yourself... well, maybe I'll tackle this next month. Then next month becomes 6 months. And maybe even a year goes by before you look up and notice that you're still drifting. You still haven't made that career shift you were dreaming about. The solution is to create a plan to move forward. Last night I led a group of career explorers through a discussion of how to create such a plan. I took... Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been skimming through a book called Callings: Finding and following an authentic Life by Gregg Levoy. It’s about vocational callings. The dictionary definition says that a vocation is "a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation." Being “called,” as Levoy puts it, is to be summoned away... Read the rest of this entry »

How do you work with third-party recruiters to get optimal consideration for positions with their clients? Here are my seven best tips on working with recruiters: 1. Using more than one recruiter at a time depends on the size of the market and if they do regional or national searches. Don’t sign up with everybody... Read the rest of this entry »