Career Advice
Adapt or Flee: What’ll It Be?
Adapt or Flee: What’ll It Be? I stumbled upon a Wall Street Journal article tackling the question of what new (and old) hires should do if they realize that their current position isn’t a good fit for them. As it turns out, a new job–even with a posh title and lavish pay–can fall short of…
Read MoreIs Your High-Quality Experience Landing Low-Quality Interviews?
Is Your High-Quality Experience Landing Low-Quality Interviews? If so, then you might be suffering from imposter syndrome… There’s a little known secret amongst high-achievers. In many cases this dirty little secret is THE reason why high-achievers with years of experience land low-quality interviews and struggle to get jobs (even with their lengthy track record of…
Read More5 Principles to Achieve Career Happiness
Employers really only want to hire happy people. They don’t want to hire your baggage that may get in the way with you doing your job. It’s a heartless world and we are just living in it, right? NO!! It’s not. It’s not heartless and you DESERVE to be happy. I know you are…
Read More14 Strategies to Maximize Your Next Pay Raise
Effectively asking for a raise and negotiating a significant salary increase is no easy feat in today’s uncertain economy. Frankly, how to negotiate a salary increase is a professional skill everyone needs to master. When you want a raise, the best way is to plan for the raise…don’t just ask out of the blue. There…
Read MoreAggressive and Defensive: The Right Way to Drive Your Executive Career
Thursday, 9/28 was my 23rd wedding anniversary, and my hubby and I went out to a local comedy show and dinner to celebrate. The headliner of the evening was a comic named Joe Conti. Salt-of-the-earth Jersey guy with the funny but somewhat typical poke-fun-of-Jersey-but-love-Jersey humor. Joe started to joke about NJ drivers. He said, “New…
Read MoreIs Staying in a Bad Job Worse Than Being Unemployed?
A study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology cited by Oxford Academic attempts to address if staying in a bad job is worse for your health than remaining unemployed. The hypothesis to prove/disprove for their study is: “There is little evidence on whether becoming re-employed in poor quality work is better for health and…
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