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Simple Questions: Surprising Answers

The right interview questions can help you really get to know your clients. More than you might think. In my work with career clients, I have found it useful to have a set of standard questions—a structured interview— that I…

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What’s Your Game Plan? Assessment Could Hold the Answer.

In my work with clients, I strive to help them answer the following basic questions: What kind of work do you want to do? Where do you want to do it? With whom do you want to work? I call…

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Three Strategies for Avoiding Career Isolation

If you’re feeling alone and isolated, chances are you need to reach out more to others. Here are three powerful ways to connect. Do you ever feel like you’re cut off from the information you need to advance your career?…

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Getting Noticed in the Employment Market

Focus your energy, expand your network, improve your presentation—and watch your job search take off. Although we currently have a job market where there are more openings than job applicants, there’s always a challenge of getting noticed for opportunities that…

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Five Steps for Discovering Your Personal Place

A key secret to career success is to discover who you really are and where you belong in life and work. Learn how. Are you living out someone else’s idea of what you should be doing? Perhaps you’re stuck in…

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Do You Have a Velveteen Career?

This poignant children’s tale can teach us much about discovering our authentic selves and making the most our lives. In The Velveteen Rabbit, a young toy rabbit feels different and less valued—less real—than the other toys in the boy’s nursery….

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Bullying References and Resources

This list provides a great overview of resources on the subject of workplace bullying along with strategies and coping behaviors to survive. Davenport, N., Schwartz, R.D., and Elliott, G.P. Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace. Civil Society Publishing, Collins,…

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