Prepare Yourself,Thinking the right way

You have the power!

May 27, 2008 View Comments

I was talking to a client just now, we’ll call him Jack. Jack was very specific about the kind of role he wanted this time around. In his mid-fifties Jack was no longer interested in climbing the endless treadmill of promotion and empire building; instead work-life balance and geography—getting a job close to home was [...]

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Prepare Yourself

Don’t be an observer in your own career

May 10, 2008 View Comments

Just recently “Patty” wrote to me. Upset would be an understatement. She had hired several writers over the last couple of years to write a government application and had been sorely disappointed. She highlighted several issues. The last writer had written long and ponderous responses to each “key selection criteria” and feedback from the employer [...]

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