[Career Coaching News] YOLO: You Only Live Once!

Add another important acronym to your dictionary! YOLO: You only Live Once! It expresses the view that one should make the most of the present moment without worrying about the future. This attitude is often used as a rationale for impulsive or reckless behavior. Yet COVID-19 has confirmed that death does not discriminate.  And it can come at any moment.…

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[CAREER COACH 101] 2020: Top Skills For Career Success

As we begin a new decade it is critical to focus on 2020 and the top skills for career success. The current job market is heavily focused on technical skills. But to be effective in your transition, and your career, you also want to highlight transferable and soft skills to potential employers. Recruiters and hiring managers will give you very…

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[Career Coach 101] Layoffs And Downsizing Are The New Normal!

As the year comes to an end, do you feel safe in your current job? Are you confident about making progress in your career? In the new work environment no company can guarantee job security. Layoffs and downsizing are the new normal! And you can be the next to be impacted!  What is a layoff? According to Wikipedia a layoff…

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[Career Coach 101] Recruitment Bias: How it can (and will) affect your transition!

Have you ever applied for a job that fit like a glove? Then you got a rejection? This can be an indication of how recruitment bias can, and will, affect your transition. We all have biases: conscious or unconscious. They are automatic, quick judgments and assessments of people and situations. This process is influenced by our background, cultural environment as…

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[Career Coach 101] The business case for learning job search skills!

Many service providers offer the apparent convenience of developing the Resume, Cover Letter and other job search tools for people in transition. In other words, you outsource without learning the techniques. However convenient this may sound, it will actually work against you. There is a strong business case for learning job search skills. In the new workplace normal, there is…

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[Career Coach 101] Resources for 50+ Workers

If you are 50+ and looking for a new job, chances are that your search will be uphill. The unemployment rate for 50+ workers has been estimated between 8.7 and 12 percent according to the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA, 2016). There were 2.5 million older Americans who wanted a job but did not have one. The main reason: age…

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