Are You Ready to Downshift Your Career? How to Make a Successful Transition (with Mark Danaher)
My guest this week is Mark Danaher, founder of Mark Danaher Training and Coaching. Mark and I discuss the seismic shift in people’s work because of the pandemic – especially the large number of people who are rethinking their career direction.
Mark gives us the signs that you may be ready to make a career shift, as well as strategies to help you make that shift.
Mark helps professionals make a career change from work they hate to the work they will love. Mark has been a career counselor and coach for over 25 years, helping professionals connect the dots to reduce stress, regain balance, and thrive in their life and career.
Mark is offering a free e-book, “How to Make a Career Change in Seven Simple Steps: Seven Lunchtime Activities to Get You in Action and Moving Forward.” Find it at www.markdanaher.com/Lesa
Are you in the wrong job that chips away at you every day? The CareerSpring document and coaching program will help you find a job that uses your zone of genius, recognizes your value, and pays you what you’re worth.
If you’re ready to take your job search to the next level by working with a highly experienced professional with a track record of client success, schedule a complimentary consult to learn more: https://calendly.com/lesaedwards/zoom-meetings2
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Let’s talk about what YOU can do to immensely improve your resume.
Today, I’m talking about the top ten missteps I see in the resumes I receive.
Here are some additional tidbits of fashion wisdom from Jane (www.janespringer.com):
Today, I interview stylist and life coach Jane Springer, and we are talking about how to dress for the interview.
In this week’s podcast, I give you my top eight tips for being ARFO. Always Ready For Opportunity.
Choosing to Think a Thought That Serves You...When Things (Really) Don't Go As Planned
want to start with the answer to a question I get asked frequently: what are the differences between coaching, counseling, and consulting?
“What is the difference between coaching, counseling, and consulting? ”
Your potential customers (i.e. employers) need to know exactly what makes you different…better…than the other products (i.e. candidates) on the shelf.
I want to give you my favorite questions for determining my clients’ brand.
Navigating Experts How to Freak Your Brain Out in 2018
Today, I want to give some high-level concepts about managing your career.
Let me tell you a little bit about ARFO – Always Ready For Opportunity.
Let’s talk about preparing for a job search in 2018 (or whenever you happen to listen to this episode).
In this week’s podcast, I’m telling six of my favorite funny stories, from work and life.
Here’s what I want you to think about: what in your life that you’ve thought of as “terrible” could actually be viewed as a blessing?
Very few of us take time to find the good in, and be thankful for, the less-than wonderful things that happen. My life coach, Brooke Castillo, calls it “ass.” The negative emotion that will happen about 50% of the time. We can either question why the world is doing this to us, or we can understand that we’re in the midst of “ass.”
In this week’s podcast, I offer my #1 tip for managing your career
Here are my top five career management tips:
What to consider when launching a job search at the end of the year
Let’s talk about active vs. passive job search strategies.
Depending on what resource you look at, 75%-85% of all jobs are in the hidden job market.
I’m talking about how to keep your motivation high at work regardless of what’s going on around you.
This week’s podcast is on how to effectively utilize job boards as part of your job search arsenal. I’ll give you my top 12 tips for getting the best possible results from sites like Indeed.com, Monster, and LinkedIn’s job board.
Let’s do a high-level overview of the job search. If you hear me say nothing else today: Job boards are broken. But what’s the alternative?
You’ve landed your next great job.It’s so important to establish your leadership approach from day one
So...We’re not meant to be happy…healthy…wealthy…successful all the time. If we were, we wouldn’t appreciate it. We would simply expect to be happy…healthy…wealthy…successful, all the time. There’s another piece to this, and it is getting back up again.
Are you fueling your passion with your work, or is your passion starving in your work?
No matter what results you’re getting in your life—good or not so good—you can trace those results back to your thoughts.
Sometimes, a job search needs to be covert, because you don’t want your current employer finding out what you’re up to. Here are five tips for utilizing LinkedIn for a discreet job search.
I’d like to offer some parallels between the decisions we’re making about Hurricane Irma and the decisions required of us in our daily lives.
Over the years, people have shared with me the ways in which they aligned their passion with their work. Here are three examples:
purpose is what you are uniquely designed to do, and extends far beyond the boundaries of a job title or company.
Here are five ways to pursue your passion while keeping your safety net
Your thoughts produce EVERY result in your life. Yes, EVERY result. No exceptions. So, to change your experience in the world, some thought hygiene needs to happen.
Here are some considerations when deciding whether to move on from your current position.
Let’s talk about what might be missing on your resume – those things that might be keeping you from being optimally qualified for whatever’s next in your career.
Let’s talk about how to infuse some new life into your job.
Let’s talk about how your job satisfaction can be affected by your personality preferences.
My advice on job searching on other than job boards.
If you value your connections on LinkedIn…value what LinkedIn can do for you professionally…you MUST spend time on LinkedIn. Not negotiable.
Maintaining – and growing – your professional network is one of the most important things you can do for long-term career/business success.
There are three key points in your career when you’ll want to check your thoughts.
Here’s what many people do wrong in networking…and how you can avoid these traps.
Here are three quick tips to make sure you’re getting the most from your LinkedIn profile, based on the things I see on others’ profiles and the things I get the most questions about.
For some of you, the concept of having relationships with recruiters may be a new one. Let's examine.
My theme this month has been “assess” – assessing your current employment situation, your resume, and your network. We’re wrapping up with assessing the degree to which you are fulfilling your life’s purpose.
Today, I offer three tips to assess your network.
Whether you hire a professional like me or do it yourself, here are five top tips to make sure your resume is job search ready.
How do you know if it’s time to look for a new job?
I want to share what I’ve learned with you, in hopes that it will either encourage you to make a much-needed change, or help you through a change you’re in the midst of.
Today, I want to talk about the three things you MUST do when closing out an interview.
My Five Top Tips for Updating your Resume
Your resume should be a marketing document, not a “data sheet.”
Today, we’re talking about managing the mental, physical, social, and spiritual aspects of a job transition.
Today, let’s talk specifically about your heading-the statement at the top of your profile, underneath your name.
Wow. I was blown away by an email I received from a client yesterday. I want to share the essence of that email with you (personally identifiable information removed, of course) because “Joe” is doing everything right.
Lee Hecht Harrison recently surveyed 277 human resource managers to find out what was missing from the job candidates they receive application materials from.
Here are my seven top tips for making a seamless transition to a new department
Whether you are persisting through rejections in the job search process to get to your dream job, persisting through the steps necessary to launch your own business, or persisting through the many demands on your money to save for that trip-of-a-lifetime…the common denominator is persistence.
Job interviews aren’t what most people would call FUN. BUT…interviewing can be successful
conducted research on my past clients in the summer of 2015, and one of the themes that emerged was what I like to call ARFO…Always Ready for Opportunity.
What are you putting off because you think it will be too hard? You might lose? It might “cost” too much (money, time, whatever)?
When clients complain to me about their job, I tell them they have only two choices: change their circumstances, or change their attitude.
Your network should be something you maintain at a low, consistent, but significant level at all times, so Let’s talk about networking from a career management perspective.
Last week, I started a thread of the Top Seven Tips for College Graduates. Here are the remaining tips:
Seven Top Tips for Transitioning from College to Career
I’m proposing an unusual gratitude list…those things that, at least in the moment, don’t seem to be blessings at all.
The bulk of your job search should be focused on getting into the companies you have identified at your target employers.
Targeting is the Name of the Game
There are some similarities: with both the root canal and the job search, you’ll feel much better when it’s over; you’ll also be very sensitive during either process.
Today’s blog is my top 10 suggestions for cultivating relationships once you’ve connected with someone.
Today, let’s talk about who you should connect with, and how to do so.
Whether we are employed or entrepreneurs, we need time to reflect on what is, and isn’t, serving us. We also need time to look forward, set goals, and lay out the action steps to achieve those goals.
What most resumes I see DON’T include is the candidate’s brand…those attributes that differentiate him or her from the competition.
How are you utilizing your resume, and what results are you getting?
During and after Hurricane Hermine, I got to thinking about the lessons we can all take from a hurricane
I decided the only way I would write about resumes was to take a different approach. The same approach I take with prospective clients during our phone consultations.
The world would be a pretty-near perfect place if everyone was engaged in the thing that makes their heart sing and brings them joy and fulfillment.
We’re on the topic of your life’s purpose…your passion…finding what you were put on this earth for.
I talked about finding your passion in my last blog, and I wanted to go even deeper into finding your life’s purpose.
Tragedy can bring us together…or tear us apart.
It’s a brand new job search game out there…do you know how to play?
In this last blog, I share what tools and resources unsuccessful job seekers were using. By knowing what doesn’t work, hopefully it gives you clarity around what does.
Today’s blog provides insight into those job seekers I spoke with who stopped looking for a job.
This blog provides you with advice from recent job seekers – what they wish someone would have told them.
Where Do Job Boards Fit into your Job Search?
Changes in the Job Search Landscape Require Changes to your Job Search Strategy
Networking is the Name of the Game
My research results from numerous previous clients who were quick to tell me what had worked for them, and what hadn’t.
I wanted to talk about joining in and participating in groups, and following companies you’re interested in working for.
Remember to build an Endorsements section that accurately represents the skill set you want to convey to those potential employers. Your skills should be on-brand, not confusing, and not duplicated.
If you understand how employers use LinkedIn to find great candidates, you can increase the likelihood that they’ll find you.
A targeted, proactive job search MUST include networking.
Let’s talk about the people you are likely to encounter on your journey.
It’s important to on-board successfully so that you start off on the right foot.
Today’s job searches are more complex, multi-faceted, and less intuitive than ever. Here are some questions to ask yourself.
We come to the final preference pair of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Judging vs. Perceiving.
In this blog, I want to talk about how a person derives his or her energy - and the implications of that orientation to the job interview.
In this blog, let’s talk about how people make decisions.
Let me provide you with some insight into how to navigate various personalities during the job interview.
Simple Resume Tips for College Grads
Clearly, for some, the job search is an afterthought in the matriculation process.
You Have to Know Yourself to Succeed in the Interview.
I have found the most difficult question for candidates to answer is often the first question asked. And because it’s the first question, if you’re not prepared with a strong answer you’ve sabotaged your entire interview.
Your preparation for the job interview should be far more comprehensive than for a first date, yet so many people go into interviews with little to no preparation.
It doesn’t matter how old you are, how much experience you have, or your level of education…interviewing is stressful.
As we wrap up this thread, here are some additional networking insights:
Once you’ve established your target employers (you have done this, haven’t you?), then your networking contacts will fall into one of four categories.
You’ve heard it before…75% of job opportunities are in the “hidden job market” and the only way to have a shot at those positions is through networking.
Joining Groups and Following Companies In LinkedIn to Help Your Job Search
As you “ramp up” your LinkedIn profile to make a positive impression on potential employers, remember to build an Endorsements section that accurately represents the skill set you want to convey.
Here’s a Job Search Reality: Organization is a MUST in the job search. It doesn’t matter whether you use one of the on-line job campaign systems such as JibberJobber, an Excel spreadsheet, or file folders, the point is you must stay organized throughout your campaign.
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