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Six Job Search Myths that Can Hurt Your Search
Myth #1: The Internet will do the trick Hitting the send button, clicking your resume into cyberspace, is not job search. It’s playing the lottery: the odds against success are huge. Instead use the Internet to do the research that will… Read more
Five O’Clock Club Coaches at Work in the Workplace: Helping Organizations Optimize and Retain Top Talent (Part I)
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches This is the first in a series of three articles on the broad topic of executive coaching and leadership development, based on interviews with senior Five… Read more
The Myth of the Permanent Job:
Stay in Touch With your Career Coach By David Madison, Ph.D. Director of the National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches. The whole point of working with your weekly group at the Five O’Clock Club is to speed up the day when you hear… 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
Club Members Outperform Competitors & Land New Jobs
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director of the National Guild of Career Coaches of the Five O’Clock A Trade Show Reunion Many people who lose their jobs receive Five O’Clock Club job-search help because they ask for it as part of their separation… Read more
Strategy Groups by Teleconference: Moving Job Hunters Towards Their Goals
by David Madison, Ph.D. Being Ready for the Right Opportunity “I thought I knew everything about networking and looking for a job,” Calvin admits, although he hadn’t been in the job market for a long time. He had been caught in a… 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
What Longevity Means to Your Career
by Lydia Bronte, author of The Longevity Factor In every era there have been a few people who lived to be unusually old, but who kept working—and were still good at what they did. We all know that Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall continued to paint… Read more
Designing a Career
An Interview with Architect (and Five O. Clock Clubber) Michel Franck by David Madison, Ph.D. “I want to expand the firm domestically and land more projects in the global market place as well,” says architect Michel Franck, speaking of his role… Read more
A Chat With Dot Com Presidents and Peter Lund (former president of CBS)
Dan Ciporin, a Five O’Clock Clubber, joined Dealtime.com in January, 1999 after a 9-year stay at MasterCard where he was SVP of the Global Debit Group. His varied career has included running a refugee camp in Thailand and serving as a corporate… Read more
From Collecting Newspapers to Direct Marketing to . . . ? Profiling Five O. Clock Clubber Linda Hardy
by David Madison, Ph.D. “I’m trying to earn money to go to Norway. I’d like to come by your house and collect newspapers and aluminum cans once a week.” This was Linda Hardy’s pitch at age 13, as she went door-to-door in her California… Read more
A Career on the Rise -Profile
Profiling Five O’Clock Clubber Tom Lewis by David Madison, Ph.D. Tom Lewis can tell you that 1975 was a bad year for college graduates. In the middle of a recession, he was one of many students left empty-handed when campus recruiting was over…. Read more
Five O ‘Clock Clubber Carroll Cavanagh: The Picture of Success
by Mary Harmon It’s clear that Carroll Cavanagh loves his work. When this 54-year-old entrepreneur talks about his present work and the previous two positions he has held, he uses the word “fun” a lot. He speaks of having had “lots of fun” working… Read more
A Surgeon Writes Prescription for Success
by Mary Harmon He who uses his hands is a laborer. He who uses his hands and eyes is an artisan. He who uses his hands, eyes, brain and heart is an artist. Anonymous John Minoli, M.D., cosmetic surgeon and Five O’Clock Club member, has… Read more
A Career Built Upon a Lifelong Love for Children’s Literature:
Rosanna Hansen, Group Publisher of Reader’s Digest Children’s Books by Mary Harmon Speak with Rosanna Hansen for very long and it becomes clear that she loves children’s books. It’s easy for Rosanna to extend that love to her work as well. She is… Read more
Should You Think of Yourself as a Permanent Employee Or a Temporary Consultant? The Answer May Lie in Your Severance.
by Kate Wendleton Jim landed a great job with a large financial services company. The firm was starting a new technology effort and wanted him to be a key player. The base pay of $100,000 a year was more than he had made before, and he would learn… Read more
The Successful Job Hunters Report: Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell You How They Did It
By Robin White Goode When Five O’Clock Club members get jobs (which happens all the time, of course), they report back to the group. In their report they strive to: show others how they did it describe a more personalized version of the job… 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
Planning for Career Success: Those Who Plan Do Better; Here’s How
See, it’s like a game of cards and if you think the game is worthwhile, then you just play the hand you’re dealt. Sometimes you get a lot of face cards, sometimes you don’t. But I think the game’s worthwhile. I really do. Christopher Reeve, former… Read more