Assessments (otherwise known as “career tests”) are certainly great ways to unearth your interests and help identify your skills, strengths and career-related orientations, but unfortunately they are often misused. There are typically two reasons for this: Either an assessment is interpreted by an untrained professional who’s not certified in the application; or the recipient depends […]
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Do You Have A Promotion Proposal Ready To Roll?
By kim on September 9, 2019 in Employee Engagement, Goals & Accountability, Interview Questions & Tips, Million Dollar Career
So your boss called you into her office for your annual review. You talked a little about performance improvement, poked around your strengths a bit and got the well-deserved accolades that you needed to get you back on to doing what you do best. What just happened? You forgot to discuss your promotion proposal and […]
Check Your Outlook
Many successful people have changed their life for the better by changing their outlook. They’ve learned to avoid or remove beliefs that could hold them back. Beliefs Such As: I can’t get ahead because of (work climate, the economy, my supervisor, downsizing, too much competition, etc.); Things keep happening to me and I am powerless; […]
Be A Team Player and Collaborate In a Virtual World
You can’t call yourself a ‘team player’ if you’re working remotely. Or can you? Yes you can if you take the right proactive steps to demonstrate your ability to stay in communication with team members, participate in meetings and be actively present even though you may be working remotely. Here are a few ways to […]
Hone the Three Characteristics of a High Potential
Whether your board of directors has picked you for the C-Suite or your team of colleagues for a promotion, you need to prove to them that you truly have high potential. Hey, I know what you’re thinking—I’m already at the top. But I have news for you friend, we all have work to do. So […]
Avoid Costly Cover Letter Mistakes
You know the drill—strive to avoid spelling and grammar errors, skip the “To Whom This May Concern” and by all means close your cover letter with impact and expectations for next steps. Then why are so many cover letters still riddled with mistakes? Probably because the applicant often gets caught up in telling stories and […]
Are You Prepping For Your Encore Career?
For many of you, a second act in your professional life may be far off in the distant future. For others, retirement is looming and you may not be quite ready to let go of gainful employment. Enter the encore career—or rather any professional endeavor(s) that you engage in after you’ve exited your main career. […]
Evaluate Whether a Job Offer is the Right One For You
As a career coach, I work with many clients in career transition and often, after a dedicated search, the win of the first offer will have major appeal. But is it the right one? Determining fit includes much more than negotiating a great salary. Today, savvy jobseekers are looking at fit, impact, culture, engagement and […]
Don’t Send A Unrequested Resume
I couldn’t be more blunt about this topic, could I? I hear more than enough lamenting from recruiters who find their inboxes filled up with attachments of resumes that they hadn’t asked for. Now, the trend seems to be anyone on LinkedIn who may possibly be a valued connection could receive a resume attached to […]
What’s Your Appropriate Work Attire?
One of the key elements of which I get asked to train and coach on is appropriate work attire. Sometimes my work on this topic is to serve as a proactive guideline and other times it’s corrective. Most recently, I was asked to work with a C-level executive who was struggling to make a positive […]