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Discovering Spot Opportunities to Advance Your Career
In the contemporary realities of the 21st Century it pays to engage in non-traditional approaches to your career design or job search. One such approach is the practice of finding and taking advantage of “spot opportunities.” Persistently… Read more
A Successful International Assignment Begins with The Five O’Clock Club’s Fifteen- Year Vision and Seven Stories Exercises
As an executive coach working in Tokyo helping expatriates manage their careers overseas, I was looking for a methodology that I could use to get them thinking about what life after an international assignment might look like. It was at this time,… Read more
“Super Bowl XLV is a memory, fading away faster for some of us than for others, but it brought one thought back to this coach’s mind: “Business is a contact sport.”
This is an important thought to keep in mind. Unlike Super Bowl commercial time, contacts are a dime a dozen; and at that over priced. The new CAREER AND JOB-SEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY makes it easier than ever to identify contacts. Combine this gold mine… Read more
Making Your Resume Outshine Your Competitors
LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, recently compiled a list of the ten (10) most overused terms and phases within the profiles used by its members. In reviewing these top ten “buzzwords” I could not help but think about… Read more
How to Debunk the “No One’s Hiring” Myth: The Five O’Clock Club Offers Twelve Proven Methods to Help You Land—Yes!—a Job
Looking for a job right now feels overwhelming. But companies are hiring, and, if you do the right things, one will hire you. The Five O’Clock Club’s Kate Wendleton says it’s time to apply some (proven, research-based) methodology to your job… Read more
Before You Say “Yes” to a Job Offer
Check Out the New Boss and the New Culture Over the last two years in my private practice as a Five O’Clock Club coach, I have had the pleasure of working with more than two hundred talented managers and executives who are looking for new jobs…. Read more
Q and A: Reference letter enough from busy former boss
I lost my job in May at a small company. My boss told me he was laying me off because the company lost a large client. And he told me that if I needed a reference I could ask potential employers to call him. I’ve been on dozens of interviews, and… Read more
The Truth About Holiday Hiring: A Five O’Clock Club Expert Tells Why—and How—to Kick Your Search Into High Gear Right Now
Yes, Virginia, there is a reason to keep looking for work for this season. While weary job-seekers might wish to play the “No one hires this time of year” card, The Five O’Clock Club’s Kate Wendleton is here to disappoint you. Actually, the… Read more
How To Survive A Demotion
Stay put, adjust your attitude, set new goals, and network from within. As companies struggle in these tight economic times, many continue to cut and consolidate staff. Sometimes that means internal reshuffling that can result in a fate that… Read more
Be Careful What You Wish For
When growing up, how many of you remember your parents telling you to be careful what you wish for because often times it may turn out to be a lot less than for what you bargained. This old adage brought to mind the excitement surrounding an event… Read more
Organizations are planning their January hiring right now
Right now, organizations are doing their budgeting for 2011. One we called on today said they will not do any more hiring this year because they want to keep the numbers looking good, but they will fill those positions asap in January. They may even… Read more
Leadership vs. Management: A Client’s Story (Part 2)
In Part 1, I showed you how a seasoned executive was able to succeed early in her new position by demonstrating leadership. Sometimes more junior employees, or those without staff to manage, don’t realize how much real leadership they can… Read more
It’s a Gift: Make the Most of Holiday Job-Searching
It’s a common misconception that the November–December holiday season is an unproductive time for job-hunting. Smart job seekers take advantage of the unusual opportunities that the season brings — to position themselves for holiday job hunt… Read more
Leadership vs. Management: A Client’s Story (Part 1)
Bringing a leadership mindset to your job (a compelling vision that you can influence others to support), no matter what your level, is a key to helping you stand out and move up (or stay employed) in an organization. Client experiences have once… Read more
Working with a Difficult Manager
Question from Five O’Clock Clubber; Answer from Anita Attridge, Five O’Clock Club Master Coach: Dear Anita: We work in a small company where the president and the regional director are very close. The regional director goes through power… Read more
Try to Put 2009 Behind Us, Making the Most of 2010
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Typical Flyer You Would Give An Employee
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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
“Guess What? People Are Getting Jobs!”
“Just how many of your people get jobs?” we are sometimes asked, especially as the market continues its struggle to turn around. Our answer is, “Everyone who works the methodology—really works it—gets a job.” There’s no doubt that the… 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
Selling Your Value on the Job: How to Be a Winner
By Stacey Jerrold, Certified Five O’Clock Club Coach Have you ever felt stalled in your job? Perhaps you have been working at your company for a few years, getting good feedback and decent annual reviews…but you’re not getting ahead. You and… Read more
7 Secrets for Surviving Job Loss in a Bad Economy
by Richard Bayer, Ph.D., Author, The Good Person Guidebook Was your job another causality of the current economic crisis? Not sure what your next step should be? Here’s how to survive your job loss until you find a new (and better!) career…. Read more
Job Insurance: You Can’t Buy It, But You Can Create It Yourself
by Win Sheffield, Certified Five O’Clock Club Career Coach One of the happiest things about getting a new job is that you don’t have to job search anymore! You’re finished with tweaking your resume, networking, answering ads, talking to… 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
How To Stay On The Cutting Edge
The job market has changed considerably in the last five years. As the economy improves more jobs are becoming available, more businesses are hiring and workers can prepare to trade up or change careers for the first time since the millennium. A… 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
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
A Primer on Executive Coaching
By Margaret New Executive Coaching has been getting a lot of press in recent years. “So You’re a Player. Do You Need a Coach?” was published in Fortune (February 21, 2000). Instructions for “Building a Better CEO” appeared in The Wall Street… Read more
Time to Review Your Career Direction
Develop a Vision and Do Better People tend towards inertia, and take action only when the ax is ready to fall. There is a better way—the Five O’Clock Club way. Through the Seven Stories Exercise® and the Forty-Year Vision®, Five O’Clock… Read more
Ethics in the Information Age; The Puritan Work Ethic and Beyond
-by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. One gets a sense of the overwhelming importance of character traits for success from reading this month’s cover story, “New Millennium Resolutions: Good Habits for the 00’s.” Through the… 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
Five O’Clock Clubbers Talk About Their Role Models . . . From Winston Churchill to an Executive Mom
by Mary Harmon In The Five O’Clock Club book Targeting the Job You Want, the chapter titled, “A Reminder of Some Basic Career Principles” advises: “Pick a few role models . . . Select the characteristics you like from each . . . ” The Five O’Clock… Read more
No More Sweaty Palms: You Can Tame Performance Anxiety
by Richard Rabkin, M.D. You’re standing at the podium, about to present the pitch that will determine whether your company gets the client–and may decide whether you keep your job. Your fingers won’t stop drumming and fidgeting, and you feel a… Read more
Coping with Success: Managing Energy Gone Awry
by Marilyn Puder-York, PhD As a clinical psychologist who counsels successful executives, I regularly encounter clients whom I call “high energy.” These people are stars: Exceptionally bright and creative, they are most often leaders, heads of… Read more
How to Improve Your Position Where You Are
by Kate Wendleton A man’s work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is… Read more
The 8-Word Message: Make Sure Your Bosses Know How Good You Are
by Kate Wendleton You can use an Eight-Word Message to make sure that those more senior than you know what you want them to know about you. It will help you keep your career on track, and improve your chances of getting ahead. Here are a few… 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