Reality checks on Speed Interviewing whether you’re 22 or 62. I recently sat at one of several company/employer-sponsored speed interviewing tables where rotating college students had a very brief time to distribute resumes, let us know who they were and ask questions of us. Sounds stressful but great doesn’t it? Or maybe not. What might make it not so great?…
We were waiting for the luncheon speaker begin. He sat to my right, a small, energetic man in a sports jacket and an open-collared light blue shirt. As strangers will, he asked me what I did. My answer was that I am writing and speaking about what it takes for a good 50 year old to become a fabulous…
Two Personal Consulting clients of mine – let’s call them Rene and Phil – are both in their late fifties. They are working with me to do their joint 18-month immediate life plan and their 18 to 48-month mid-range life plan. In their 30 years of marriage they have never had so many exciting aspirations or such concern for the…
This post is a follow up to my first blog on The Real Future of Work – Part 1, which you can read HERE if you’re interested. I was intrigued by management consultant Ron Ashkenas’s article, Navigating The Emotional Side of a Career Transition, in the Harvard Business Review. Ashkenas had worked for the same firm for 37 years, starting just…
I’ve recently returned from Vancouver, where I presented a session at the American Board of Vocational Experts annual conference. My session was called THE NEW WORLD OF WORK FOR PAY: IT ISN’T ALL ABOUT JOBS ANYMORE. What do I mean, it’s not about jobs? Work has been with us forever. Jobs have not. Jobs as a configuration of work for…
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