Career Management Archives – Power Connections

11 Sep 23

Attention Job Seekers: The Ultimate Mistake You Need to Fix!

Your resume is often your first chance to make a lasting impression on potential employers. Yet, time and time again, I come across a common mistake that can hinder your chances of landing that dream job. What’s the number one offender, you ask?

02 Aug 22

Career Management is Hard!

Managing one’s professional path, sharpening one’s skills and developing one’s unique persona and brand, takes making a plan, it takes patience as it is built over time and it requires behavioral consistency, and maybe most difficult of all, being on the receiving end of direct feedback along the way.

11 Jul 22

Career Ups and Downs

As Outplacement Consultants and Executive Coaches, we help people in every stage of their career. Through the ups and downs, and going sideways, we believe that everyone can find their upward trajectory. Where do you find yourself at this moment with your own career?

20 May 22

The Great Resignation and Entrepreneurialism

What Happened to Everyone? Over 40 million people have resigned from their jobs in 2021. Where did they go? What are they all doing? Did they quit corporate America to start their own gig?

06 Oct 21

KISS: The Elevator Speech

Don’t think for a second that your elevator speech isn’t important! It is so important that it is one of the most critical elements of an effective job search. No lie. It’s true.

26 Sep 19

Here’s the Trouble with Burnout

It’s a nasty, bad condition; definitely not good for you! In my coaching of executives, I have noticed a general theme with business executives who are burned out. How does it happen? What are solutions? This is a must read.

16 Aug 18

Another Platform: Thriving

So here it is, I am going way out on a limb: I am of the platform that has to do with Thriving. Give me a man or woman, regardless of their age, religion, gender preference, disability (and any of the other classifications), who desires the chance to pursue meaningful work, be productive, be a provider, to contribute, improve their own lives, their family’s lives and the lives around them, and I am for that political platform.

06 Jun 17

The Best Career Advice

The BEST career advice I have ever received was gifted to me 20 years ago. At that time, I reported to a Divisional President, who said to me “To be successful, you need to be the expert in what you do. You need to be the one that everyone thinks of, that everyone calls, when they have a question or need of information about that thing that you do.”