Monthly Archives: December 2010
Use The Choice Matrix For Big Career Decisions
You have two job offers. Which do you choose? You’re expecting a baby. Do you stay at the job, scale back or quit altogether? You’re unhappy in your current job. Do you move laterally, find a new employer, or change careers? You will make many career choices in your lifetime. A matrix of your priorities and your options is a useful decision-making tool:
In the above example, our decision-maker has two job options. Perhaps, she dreams of being a writer and gets one offer for an editorial assistant and one for Continue reading
Build In Next Year’s Office Breaks Now
Build In Next Year’s Office Breaks Now Continue reading
How Strong is Your Brand?
You are your brand, whether you consciously manage it or not. Continue reading
How to Prepare for a New Career
Career change is natural, and it happens more often than you would think. Studies have shown that the average professional will change careers (not just jobs) multiple times throughout the course of his or her lifetime. Therefore, whether you’re bored with your current direction, have been laid off due to downsizing and budget cuts, or are simply looking for a fresh start, a career change may be just what you need to take your professional life to the next level. Continue reading
Negotiation Strategies that Build Consensus
We are often faced with the challenge of working with others whose overall goals may not exactly match our own. This informative webinar will help you understand differences among others and give you practical tools to pave the way towards consensus. Continue reading
Will Your MBA Career Center Get You a Job
Having benefited from and also having worked in my MBA career services office, I know how valuable MBA career services are to graduate students in their job search.
Most MBA career services teams offer a multitude of services, including career counseling and assessments, resume advice, interview training, on-campus recruiting events and presentations with employers, career fairs and/or job and internship listings/opportunities to which their students can apply. However, in speaking with many of my fellow classmates as well as students from other business schools, I was surprised to discover how unsatisfied Continue reading
Blend in or stand out? – Job Search Networking Tips
What do you think is a more effective networking strategy? Going to an industry event with others in your same profession? Or going to an event in a totally different industry where you’ll stand out? Continue reading
