Recently, I had an eye-opening experience during a coaching session with my Parenting Coach (Pascale Brady, are you reading this?). My goal in hiring her was very measurable and explainable: show me how to get my son to take responsibility in the morning, get dressed on his own, make his own breakfast, and get to ...
Author Archives: Laura Labovich
Give-to-Get in the Protean Workplace!
Today, I am incredibly proud to participate in Job Action Day 2010! This year’s theme is about “Creating Opportunity” by creatively devising tactics to address employer needs, stand out in the sea of candidates, becoming more future-focused and emerge from this unprecedented employment situation better, stronger, ...
Top 5 Assessments to Direct Your Career Change
For most of us, the first and only time we ever take a career assessment is in high school or college. But, if you are unfulfilled in your current job, unsure of your motivated values and talents, looking for confirmation on a possible career passion, or in search of ways in which you could make ...
Mastering the Art (and Science) of Writing Thank-You Letters
After interviews, job seekers typically send nondescript, cookie-cutter thank-you notes: “It was a pleasure meeting you and I appreciate the time you spent speaking with me. I know that I can add significant value to your team,” but, ...
6 Ways to Implement a Generous Job Search!
Zig Ziglar—author and nationally renowned motivational speaker—has been known to say, “You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want” and, as a huge Zig fan, I couldn’t agree more. But, advocating giving-as-a-form-of-getting ...
Stuck in your Job Search? Join the Club!
Sure, job search can be an isolating, lonely and frustrating endeavor, I’ll grant you that, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be. While the majority of your out-of-work friends are “going it alone,” spending countless hours surfing the web, posting to Monster.com, and ...
What Jerry Maguire Can Teach You About Job Search
Earlier this week, I received an email from an acquaintance of mine, asking me (and about 75 others also copied on the email) for help in his job search. Recently laid off, he had the right idea; to reach out to his network to seek help, asking his former colleagues, friends, neighbors and anyone else ...
7 Ways to Use Visual Elements to Move Your Resume from Bland to Beautiful!
Resumes that incorporate graphics and color are not simply for creative professionals anymore. A purely textual resume is often not enough to stand out in a crowd of candidates, so if your resume is finding its way to the black hole again and ...
