Episodes
Jan. 9, 2017
Future-Proof Your Career: Automation, Outsourcing, and Your Career
Technology will continue to revolutionize the global workforce and access to untapped labor markets, closing some career doors and opening others. Thinking in terms of today’s world and business view is the wrong way to appro...
Dec. 19, 2016
Your LinkedIn Presence, Network, and Reputation
Building a professional LinkedIn profile is important. Equally important are the efforts you put into building a broad and relevant LinkedIn network and the reputation you develop through your actions using LinkedIn. In this ...
Dec. 5, 2016
Getting Serious About Career Transition
Did you know that most people spend more time planning vacations than their careers? With the responsibility of career advancement and career change being placed more and more on individuals, the corporate ladder truly being ...
Oct. 24, 2016
Land a Better Job Faster: How to Find the Best Company Fit
Today, job search success isn’t only about what you know or who you know, but depends on who, -specifically hiring decision makers- knows, likes, and remembers you. Employers highly value hiring the right person and devote su...
Oct. 17, 2016
From Tongue-Tied to Triumphant: Using Career Scripting to Transform Your Career
When opportunities to advance your career present themselves, you know you need to capitalize on them. Sometimes, you do, and sometimes you walk away wondering what you just said. On this episode of the Career Confidante, car...
Sept. 19, 2016
How to Establish Thought Leadership to Enhance Career Success
In a crowded labor market, thought leadership offers job seekers the opportunity to stand out from the crowd and gain visibility that can translate into interviews and opportunities. By taking the time to share original conte...
Sept. 12, 2016
How to Moonlight Without Losing Your Day Job
Most professionals today are doing more than one job – building portfolio or hybrid careers to improve their earning potential, develop skills they enjoy using, or work toward the new definition of retirement. In most cases, ...
Aug. 29, 2016
It's Not You, It's Your Resume!
The modern job search is tailor-made to be depressing and stressful for candidates. If you’ve been in the job search for several months without positive results, it feels like a very personal rejection by a faceless entity. O...
Aug. 22, 2016
How to Get Found, Get Read, and Get Called Using LinkedIn
Do you know the four unwritten rules of the highly successful job search? If you are struggling to get calls for the positions you really want or not getting responses from hiring managers you connect with on LinkedIn, you ne...
Aug. 15, 2016
Career Management: It Isn't Just for the Unemployed
You have a job that you love … great! But that doesn’t mean you get to rest on your laurels. In today’s fast-paced world, if you are not improving, you are falling behind. And, if history has taught us anything, it is that yo...
Aug. 1, 2016
Be a Good Manager, Break the Rules
Research shows that people leave managers, not companies. In today’s war for talent, managers who are consistently losing their best people will have a hard time advancing their careers. What makes a good manager good? First,...
July 18, 2016
Make a Good First Impression at Your Next Interview
Research shows that you have less than 5 seconds to make a good first impression. If you are interviewing for a new position or networking for career advancement, being able to calm your nerves and represent yourself well fro...
July 11, 2016
Add Some Novelty to Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile
Smart marketers know that our brains are wired to ignore the mundane and expected. They also know that if you want to stand out in a mass of mediocrity, you need to make an emotional connection with your audience. You won’t w...
June 27, 2016
How to Get Ahead in Your Career This Summer
Would you be ready if a career advancement opportunity came your way today? What would you say in an interview if you were called tomorrow and asked to interview for a position, whether external or to advance within your comp...
June 13, 2016
Resume Impact: How to Extract Your Key Differentiators
Many folks find it challenging to “toot their own horn,” and may even have difficulty knowing what it is that truly distinguishes them in their respective lines of work – otherwise known as their “personal brand.” Knowing how...
June 6, 2016
How Job Fairs and Professional Association Meetings Can Advance Your Career
Summer is full of opportunities to network and advance your career as the job fair and professional association activity kicks into full swing. Whether you are job seeking, thinking about making a career move, or looking to m...
May 16, 2016
From Stuck to Unstoppable: Applying Brain Science to Move out of Fight-Flight-Freeze into Calm-Creative-Confident
As you conduct your job search, have you noticed that there are times when you stumble over your words or can't come up with a good answer? Do you ever find yourself avoiding certain job search activities because they feel to...