Category Archives: career coaching

What World Class Athletes Can Teach Job Searchers To Achieve Success.

Have you ever seen a world class athlete before their event?  If you have, you might have seen them with their eyes closed and head moving.  What they’re doing is not some weird superstitious ritual before competing.  They are performing their competition in their head.  Every movement their body will make is pictured along with […]

Surviving Unemployment: Are You Holding onto Something You Should Let Go Of?

There are some things that get better with time; a fine wine; a broken bone; or a loving relationship.  Then there are the things that don’t; leftovers; overnight guests; and anger.  In fact, the latter gets rank the longer they hang on.  We like hanging on to things regardless of whether they get better or […]

Surviving Unemployment: 3 Gifts Job Search Should Give Themselves

Serenity               Courage               Wisdom At this point in the holiday season, you have probably finished selecting and wrapping presents for others.  Now is the time to think of yourself and what gifts you would like.  I would like to recommend three things that job searchers should give themselves for Christmas.  They are serenity, courage, and wisdom.  […]

Surviving Unemployment: Write your way to happiness.

Remember the first days of the school year with your new notebooks and new pens?  You couldn’t wait to start writing with them.   And when bored, you doodled with those pens on the notebooks with curlicues, lines, arrows, hearts or anything that came to mind.  Now is somewhat different.  Instead of doodling we use the […]

The Summer Job Search Myth Busted

 The Summer Job Search Myth Busted The lazy hazy days of summer will soon be upon us.  Bringing with it thoughts of relaxing, swimming, picnicking, gardening and vacationing.  To job search or not to job search is the question on the minds of many unemployed.   Deciding between working on a tan and working on finding […]