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Find Yourself So You Can Know Who You Are

September 1, 2011

This title is meant to confuse or befuddle.  Here’s why.  There’s a common thread that runs through many job seekers who’ve been let go from their  jobs.  They don’t know who they are.  They’ve forgotten what they love doing. They can’t remember why they are good at what they do. As a result, their job [...]

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Story Telling is an Art and a Science

April 28, 2011

Yes, everyone has a story.  It is difficult for some of us to tell our stories, however. As I work with classes of job seekers to help them develop their accomplishment stories, we work through some of the technicalities of telling stories so they convey the right message in the right way. STAR stories, as [...]

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Taking Credit Where Credit Is Due

December 22, 2010

The title of this post from Forbes caught my eye.  It is something I know I have trouble with and so many others do too!  “The Right Way To Sell Yourself at Work“.  The author, Helen Coster confesses: The more time I spend in the workforce, the more I realize that my aversion to self-promotion [...]

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It is the end of the week, what do you have to show?

April 9, 2010

I, like many of you, love Fridays.  It gives me permission to stop thinking about work for a couple of days!  However, before I do slip into my mini vacation, I like to look back at the week and see if I've made progress/headway/completed my goals.  Certainly there are some weeks I give myself higher [...]

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I Just Did My Job

February 9, 2010

If I had a dollar for every time I heard a job seeker say, “I just did my job, I don’t have any accomplishments”, I would be so rich.  So why are you so humble?  Why can’t you take some credit where credit is due?  That’s all we are asking you to do.  But, why, [...]

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Loss- A Time for Reflection

January 14, 2010

The loss of a job.  The loss of a family member.  Divorce.  These endings are bitter sweet.  They mark the end of life as we knew it.  They also create new opportunities and open a new chapter in our lives. There are predictable emotions that we all must go through after a loss.  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross [...]

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