Transitioning from where you are to where you need to go isn’t easy; it requires you to become connected to the cause and effect of your actions, and to own them by taking responsibility.
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Latest Blog Posts for Career Growing Pains: Some Grow UP and Some Grow Old
- Career Directions: Anywhere But HereA friend of a friend was telling me about hating her job —how everything and everyone related to it emotionally drained her. She was bored, unchallenged, and a few other adjectives that meant she was leaving, resigning and didn’t want to work the...
- Career Messaging: Are you missing them?on Dec 8, 2010 in FoowaterI was volunteering in a job mentoring program and reviewing a participant’s job history which included several short-term jobs. When I asked him why he left each position he replied “It was the people.” After hearing him repeat this four consec...
- The Unemployed You: Battling Through the Waiting Game (Part Two)A couple months after being downsized, current and former employees were still angry, complaining and blaming. I still didn’t engage in it because bitterness needs an expiration date, plus it dominates your life whether you realize it or not. It is...
- The Accidental Manager: In some train wrecks you may be the train!When talking about workplace “traumas” from senior management to the front desk, a common theme is ineffective managers and why they exist. Frequent complaints center on promotions stemming from seniority only, office politics or some other ‘Wh...
- Painfully Employed: They got it bad and that aint goodWhen I was 13, I heard my great aunt say that she purchased an expensive car because she hated her job and needed an incentive to stay. Years later, when I struggled with my own discontent and watched others struggles with theirs, her words resonated...
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- Final Blog in Alum Series: Earning Interest May Earn Donations?on May 28, 2009 in Foowater alumni associations alumni support behavioral interview beyond graduation support career challenges career services career workshops careercoach college college alumni college alumni activities college career centers college graduates college workshops corporate culture FOOW happyhour interview dress code interview questions interview tips job hunting job search jobcounselor jobs networking professionals resume action verbs resume help resume sample resume writing rocky job market sample thank you letter transitioning unemploymentMy nephew called to tell me about his new car and I shared my first car experience at 16: I told him that during the first night I kept looking out the window to verify that it was real. He laughed and admitted that he had done the same thing. When w...
- From Career Train Wreck To Church Envelopes, and Back Again to Alumson Apr 22, 2009 in Foowater alumni associations alumni support behavioral interview beyond graduation support career challenges career services career workshops careercoach college college alumni college alumni activities college career centers college graduates college workshops corporate culture FOOW happyhour interview dress code interview questions interview tips job hunting job search jobcounselor jobs networking professionals resume action verbs resume help resume sample resume writing rocky job market sample thank you letter transitioning unemploymentMy encounter with church envelopes taught me that in a career train wreck every light in the tunnel is not a way out. At the time, my job was a train wreck pile-up of unchallenging responsibilities coupled with bickering, backstabbing, and bitter co...
- Alums…Preparing the Search for SatisfactionPreparation, Searching and Satisfaction are the lanes on the road to maturity. The ideal path would be: our parents prepare us for life, and then release us to search for who we are and what we want in the world. We stumble around for a while, eventu...
- Alumni Outreach…Can they hear you now?The success of Alumni Associations depends on their ability to build relationships around the evolving needs of graduates with diverse interests and motivation. Since it is difficult if not impossible to appeal to everyone, the challenge is how to...
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