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Managing Your Career: Sometimes a Job is Just a Job

June 9, 2010

Chris Guillebau’s recent retweet – “never take a job you’re already qualified for” – combined with playdate with a mom with two small kids yesterday –  reminded me (once again) that sometimes you take a job because it is just a job. And a job for which you’re well qualified. The fantasy among some career [...]

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[Career Tips] 3 Ways to Better Yourself at the Job Waiting Game

March 9, 2010

As my 7 year-old son Traylor periodically reminds me, it’s tough to wait. This morning’s challenge was one under-ripe mango: serving it for breakfast when he was ready but it wasn’t still meant it didn’t taste so hot. It can be just as tough to wait in the employment constellation we call jobs and careers. [...]

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[Coaching Tips] 3 Key Things You’ll Want to Get from Your Performance Review This Year

November 9, 2009

As my colleague Margaret O’Hanlon has blogged at the Compensation Cafe, merit budgets in 2009 are tiny: the upshot is that most employees won’t see a salary increase. At a time of 10.2% national unemployment, the goods news for the folks who have them is that they have a job – the bad news is [...]

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Is a Job Still A “Job”

October 15, 2009

Where communications abilities takes us a host of other trends and patterns follow. For better or worse it’s given us a world where you can be tethered to work by iPhone or computer, and share information via short text bursts and immediate access And as this week’s Wall Street Journal chronicles in “Why E-Mail No [...]

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[Coaching Tips] Can You Help?

October 11, 2009

“Practice what you preach” is a well known adage: it’s just that many of us don’t follow it. So when 10 newly available hours surfaced in my own work life, I decided to follow my own advice. Here’s the story. It might be important to you. Like most of us, there are moving parts in [...]

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[The Great Recession and You] Dr. Seuss, Careers, and a Slog by the Bay

August 6, 2009

When the rain started right before we stepped on the ferry boat tonight to take us from central Hong Kong to Kowloon, there was little idea how much and how hard the storm would hit us. While the thought of watching the nightly laser light show from the harbor seemed a good idea, spending time [...]

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