According to a recent Robert Half survey of more than 2,800 senior managers, “half of the employers (58%) said they prefer to receive cover letters and find them very valuable.” As a business owner as well as a former...
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As an executive career consultant, I have several clients seeking to advance their careers or planning retirement within the short term. We discuss the next chapter of giving back plus still staying involved in corporate and not-for-profit settings as...
Someone recently on LinkedIn voiced their opinion about the fallacy of a personal brand. Quite indignant with a statement alluding to the facts we are humans vs. products. More power to her for having a perspective but the financial...
Hello, thank you for visiting my blog. It appears you’re looking for a job since the subject matter is very specific, although I could claim psychic abilities but I digress. I would like to start off with thanking Garrison...
In her 2018 TED Talk, designer Ingrid Fettell Lee stated: “Joy is different than happiness. Happiness is something that measures how good we feel over time. But joy is about feeling good right now, in the moment.” Her observation...
I’m an avid learner. Are you? I might be the odd kid but hated Summer breaks in elementary school because I couldn’t go to school and learn new concepts. I was bored. If I told my mom that I...
This past week I had an “oh, shiitake” moment when I realized a few consulting proposal responses had a glaring error on pricing. I pride myself on attention to detail. In the age of spell check algorithms plus cutting...
Enhance Your Tech Job Opps I just read something seriously stupid but humorous on LinkedIn. A 2017 study conducted by Microsoft found that the average human attention span is down to 8 seconds from 12 when it was originally...
One of the first things I ask my clients as a career advocate is: “Tell me about yourself.” It appears as an innocuous question but is usually met with a question back to me: “What do you mean?” The...
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For the past 2 years, my husband Pat and I have been traveling globally using a 10-year bucket list. We live a month at a time in a place we typically haven’t visited previously. It started with Palermo, Sicily...