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We are two career coaches passionate about helping you find work that works for you. These are unfiltered conversations centered around creating a fulfilling career path: finding work you love, re-energizing your current career, and navigating the complexities of career change.
Get Off the Career Treadmill: The Yo Yo Career Model Equals Career Success!
The 21st Century Yo-Yo Career Model Adults who come in to see me for career coaching often say that feel like their career is on a treadmill going nowhere fast or their career feels like a roller coaster ride. One day everything is going up and then the next day with...
How to Negotiate Your Salary
To get ready to land that new job or position, ideally you “do your homework.” This includes updating and fine-tuning your resumé, learning about the companies you’ll target and interview with, and discovering how to best present yourself in an interview. It’s also...
Mark Twain Quotes and What they Mean to Me
When I was rapidly barreling down the academic highway to reach the Ph.D. destination, I spent one entire semester studying Mark Twain. He was, and still is considered “the first” and most important American writer. And indeed, he’s revered throughout the world! As a...
Will Future Trends Reshape Your Career?
Researching and studying future trends has been a master key for my success in the workplace! Of course, Toffler’s prediction of 3–5 career changes seemed, on the surface, to be both absurd and ridiculous in the early 70’s, and seemed to most to be just as odd years...
Sharpen Your Crap Detector
Constantly sharpening your Crap Detector is an absolute necessity for career success today! As you know I remain deeply involved in the career/work world issues which are now reeling from “Future Shock” as predicted by Toffler. The workworld has entered a new age of...
Blind Sided By the Chaos of Change
Published in the November, 2009, edition of the UTD Coaching News, The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Management. In dealing with unrelenting change for myself and my career clients, I remember that I am a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks. “You can no...
Free Agent/Entrepreneurial Characteristics Indicator
Entrepreneur is the Career Focus of Generation X, Y and Z Becoming an independent, free agent entrepreneur is the focus of millions of Americans, from corporate baby boomers (trying to move from misery towards meaning and money at midlife) to members of Gen X, Y, and...