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The Successful Job Hunters’ Report Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell You How They Did It
Listening to our successful job hunters tell their stories of triumph, it is amazing how each story seems to build on the other. The same kinds of issues take on a different complexion each time, showing how personal and unique the process is for… Read more
Try to Put 2009 Behind Us, Making the Most of 2010
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How to Target the Job You Want
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin Now we will work on firming up your job targets. You will do some preliminary research on each target through the Internet or library and by talking to people to see… Read more
Answering the Question: “So Tell Me About Yourself . . . ” with your Two-Minute Pitch
by Kate Wendleton Your Two-Minute Pitch is the back-bone of your search–you’ll use it in job and networking interviews, and in cover letters. You’ll be ready when someone says, “So tell me about yourself.” Your resume summary statement serves… Read more
Thinking Outside The Box With Work Scenarios
by Ruth Robbins and Karen D. Bowser, Certified Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches A few lifetimes ago people didn’t have to give much thought to Plan B when they thought about their career, if they thought much about their career at all. Out of… Read more
Lessons to be Learned From Those With Long Searches
Job Hunters Prove the Power of The Five O’Clock Club Methodology by David Madison, Ph.D. Director of the National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches Sometimes we hear about someone who gets lucky and lands a job in two or three weeks…. Read more
You’re Always Close to a Five O’Clock Club Strategy Session
Getting Ready to Be Lucky After more than eight years in her job at a small not-for-profit organization, Janet decided that it was time to move on. “I had been looking off and on for about a year,” she says, but she had not seen much in the way… Read more
The Power of Your Weekly Small Group at the Club
by David Madison Ph.D., Director of the National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches Making the Best Use of the Wisdom of Peers “Having been in HR for more than twenty years,” Julia points out, “I was aware of The Five O’Clock… Read more
Make Sure You’re Headed in a Satisfying Direction
by Kate Wendleton Last week, I met Andy, a mid-level accountant who simply wanted another job in accounting. Where he worked didn’t matter to him. He just needed money so he could live his real life at home. He said he had never had a truly… Read more
Time for a Change? Why Not Consider a Nontraditional Career?
by Joan Runnheim, Certified Five O’Clock Club Career Coach Have you been blocked in your attempts to move up the career ladder? Or perhaps as a child you dreamt of a career that involved climbing a real ladder. Maybe you’ve reached the top, but… Read more
Making Sure Your Business Idea Is Viable
by Kate Wendleton Jared had an idea a week. “My girlfriend and I make soap at night. We want our own soap business.” Later, he mentioned ideas for a tourist business, then a dating service: “Some people are making a lot of money running… Read more
Isn’t It Time You Got Yourself a Career Coach?
by Aurora Brito, certified Five O’Clock Club Career Coach As a career coach in private practice, I am often asked what it is exactly that I do. If you are reading this magazine you probably have a better understanding of the role of a career… Read more
Learn the Game for Moving Inside Your Firm
by Kate Wendleton Then Teach the Job Game to Inner-City High School Youths Half of the people attending The Five O’Clock Club are employed and looking for a new job. We tell them, “The best job hunts start at home” —by which we mean they… Read more
Going for Jobs, Consulting and Career Change
By: David Madison, PhD, Guild Director Keeping the Big Picture in Mind: Aiming for 200 Positions Matthew’s hard work at the Five O’Clock Club resulted in his landing a CFO position at a private investment company. He was able to report his… Read more
Difficult Job Searches YIELD to Five O’Clock Club Methods
Re-Networking to Keep Her Career on Track Julie found that, although she was an HR recruiting professional, there were ‘no tricks of the trade’ to get her through “the nightmare landscape I was in for a while.” For many months she faced a… Read more
10 Tips for Career Changers
In this tight job market, more people are able to do it by Kate Wendleton In today’s panicky labor market, employed workers are coming to the Five O’Clock Club in record numbers – and they are successfully changing careers. In fact, the average… Read more
When Lawyers Seek Career Counseling
by David Madison, Ph.D. Three of our busiest senior counselors, Ellis Chase, Jim Borland and Kate Wendleton, took time recently to sit down with our Associate Editor, David Madison, and share their thoughts about counseling attorneys. Ellis has… Read more
Difficult Job Searches – Yield to The Five O’Clock Club Methodology
by David Madison, Ph.D. It’s not uncommon that people with the most difficult job searches end up at The Five O’Clock Club. They might be career changers who are attempting dramatic “course corrections,” or they may simply be seasoned professionals… Read more
Observations Of The Current Job Market
From the Job Hunter’s Point-of-View Kate you’ve heard it before: This is the best job market since World War II. Professionals, managers and executives are finding jobs faster than they did only a few years ago. Yet you don’t feel as though… Read more
Dramatic Career Changes
Successful Five O’Clock Clubbers Share Their Stories -by David Madison, Ph.D. Some experts on the US labor market predict that the average college graduate today will have four careers (not four jobs, four careers). This is not surprising, given… Read more
Kate and Dale Talk Jobs -a nationally syndicated column
by Kate Wendleton and Dale Dauten “Kate & Dale Talk Jobs” is a nationally syndicated newspaper column appearing in The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The New York Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston Chronicle and approximately 100… Read more
The Younger Career Changer
by Jane Hyun It is no longer just seasoned professionals with 20+ years of experience who undergo a serious “mid-career assessment.” The younger workforce has begun to take charge of their careers. These “35-and under” professionals are… Read more
Take Parental Messages to Heart
A basic tenet of the Five O’Clock Club is to help other members by sharing experience, expertise and support. This month, the Five O’Clock Club turned the tables and looked at the experience, expertise and support that members have received…. Read more
So You Think Things Are Changing Fast? Let’s Have a Little Perspective
by Kate Wendleton By the time I got my MBA in 1975, I was already a techno-nerd, having worked my way through college as a computer programmer. We were all in on the ground floor of this great adventure–and there was plenty of room for everyone…. Read more
The Interactive Job Markets: Windows of Opportunity Remain Open
by Steve Bolerjack Internet-related jobs are booming–and maturing– across the country in companies large and small. Fellow Five O’Clock Clubbers tell you what’s going on and how you can get in. The September 1996 issue of The Five O’Clock… Read more
Notice Where Your Feet Are Taking You And See Where You End Up in Twenty Years
Today, the name of the game is continual career management–taking small, ongoing steps in the right direction. Five O’Clock Clubber Carroll Cavanagh’s feet were taking him in a certain direction, but he didn’t notice it at the time. Often, it is… Read more
Follow the Basics, then . . . Develop Your Own Search Style
by Mary Harmon Listening to the reports our successful job hunters give is not only inspiring (and fun), but it is also instructional, which speaks to another strength of the Five O’Clock Club approach: its flexibility. Most of our searchers do end… Read more
Volunteerism: Working for Free Pays Multiple Dividends
by Mary Harmon Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life’s most urgent question is, what are you doing for others? Martin Luther King,… Read more
Keeping Yourself Marketable by Managing Your Personal P.R.
by Kate Wendleton Today I received a call from a Five O’Clock Clubber who is happily re-employed. She thinks her company could use some of the skills that we teach at The Five O’Clock Club. After all, she said, The Five O’Clock Club is teaching… Read more
A Nun Learns the Habit of Self-Promotion
by Mary Harmon Networking: The planned acquisition of contacts for exchanging mutual support, ideas and information. For an example of networking at its best, take a look at a Chicago branch. Not only are members generous about sharing–they give… Read more
The Successful Job Hunters Report: Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell You How They Did It
by Robin White Goode Listening to the reports our successful job hunters give is not only inspiring (and fun), but it is also instructional, which speaks to another strength of the Five O’Clock Club approach: its flexibility. Most of our searchers… Read more
What’s Happening in the Health Care Job Market?
Our industry expert gives you a prescription for the nineties by James Borland, Ph.D. The Department of Labor says health care will be the number one growth field for jobs through the year 2005. New trends are transforming the industry, and that… Read more
Getting Jobs in a High-Growth Field: Lessons from those in the Interactive marketplace
Lessons from those in the interactive marketplace by Kate Wendleton Internet-related companies now employ more people than the publishing or the advertising industries. In Patricia Raufer’s article, Five O’Clock Clubbers tell you what you need to… Read more
Use Career Strategies to Bolster Your Confidence–Conquer Job-Change Fears With Five O’Clock Club Techniques
by Rose Ann Pastor Are you facing a job or career change? Taking on the challenge successfully isn’t easy, but happily the rewards are many. To move your career forward with greater confidence, you’ll need to learn some basic career management… Read more
Trying to Make a Winning Move Into Sports
by Patricia Kitchen, Staff Writer for Newsday RICH KIER CAUGHT BASEBALL fever when he was 7 years old, watching the 1956 World Series with his dad and his grandfather, who were both rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers. For Kier, it was the beginning… Read more