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Mastering the Methodology Five O’Clock Club Coaches Speak Out About the Path to Certification
It is not a magic formula—just a common sense approach to career development,” says Phil Ronniger, a senior coach at The Five O’Clock Club. His sentiments are echoed by master coaches Roy Cohen and Chip Conlin. Roy makes it clear that they… Read more
Managing Down NOT Up
When it comes to being perceived as effective at your job, many of us have followed the advice that “to be successful you must learn to manage up”—i.e., keep your boss happy and you will never have to worry. Though this maxim contains a shade… Read more
The (Not-So-Bad) Road to Happy and Hired: 11 Stress-Busting Job Search Tips from The Five O’Clock Club
Looking for a job is always stressful. Doing so in a post-recession economy alongside millions of laid-off competitors can feel positively soul-crushing. But The Five O’Clock Club says when you combine stress-busting techniques with smart job-search… Read more
How to Job Search When You Are Employed
It’s probably the last thing you want to think about when you get home from work, but employed people must spend 15 hours a week on their searches to get any momentum going. And you’ve got to figure out how to do that. This doesn’t mean… Read more
Handling Difficult Interview Questions
Dear Five O’Clock Clubbers: Happy Summer Break! Now that we are heading into Labor Day, there is no better time than now to give your job search that extra push. Just be mindful that the period following Labor Day is traditionally the second… 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 New Normal: Employee, Consultant and back again
The New Normal: Employee, Consultant and back again by Kate Wendleton For decades, we have been reminding clients that all positions are temporary. You may receive a W-2 at year-end, a 1099, or both—but no work you do is permanent. Sometimes, a… 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
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
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
Understanding Organizational Culture
by Anita Attridge Five O’Clock Club Career Coach Joining a new company can be like moving to a foreign country. You will encounter new customs, dress, language, ideas and rules, and you will need to learn about all of these in order to do… Read more
The First 90 Days -on Your New Job and beyond
by Suzanne Harwood Five O’Clock Club Career Coach Starting a new job can be a bumpy ride, so who doesn’t like the idea of being entitled to a shake-down cruise? There’s comfort in assuming that we have a grace period for getting up to speed…. Read more
Your Boss and Your Career
by Dwight Clarke, Five O’Clock Club Career Coach, with David Madison What kind of grade will you give to your career on the day you get the gold watch? Of course, nobody actually gets a gold watch anymore—it’s become a metaphor and a cliché… Read more
Promotability Index
When Is It Time to Move On? People say: “I’ve been at my current job six years. I’m killing myself, but I wonder when, if ever, I’ll be promoted.” How can a person tell? And in this job market, employees are sometimes deciding to move out… Read more
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Importance of Image
By Cynthia Strite, Five O’Clock Club Coach with David Madison Is there really anything more that can be said about the importance of image? Since the publication of John Molloy’s book Dress for Success in 1961, we all get the concept don’t… Read more
The Holidays Are A Good Time To Job Hunt!
In January, a job hunter reported on the successful completion of his search after only six sessions. The surprise was that he had received his job offer on Christmas Eve! His wife attended the session where he proudly recounted his adventure: The… 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
Upgrading Your Job to “Business Partner”
By: David Madison, PhD, Guild Director The following article is based on a panel presentation at the June 9, 2003 meeting of the ‘HR Network’ at the Marsh headquarters in Manhattan. The network is co-sponsored by Marsh and the Five O’Clock Club,… Read more
Ethical Reasoning in Business: How to Make Ethical Decisions
Business leaders make ethical decisions every day. We might be tempted to assume that let your conscience be your guide is the simple formula that most people follow when they grapple with ethical issues. But it’s actually far more complex than… Read more
Accepting An Overseas Assignment: The Benefits and Pitfalls
by Mary Gorman of The Employment Round table with David Madison, Ph.D. My first reaction was, get the globe….how far south is Argentina? I had always wanted to work overseas, so when the topic was broached in a casual conversation with the Human… 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
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
Working with a Career Coach
by Kate Wendleton The world has changed. When I was looking for a career coach—back in 1978—there were very few. The company I was working for went through five downsizing’s! Even then I couldn’t get career coaching, so I started The Five… 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
Project Consulting -An Option In Career Management
by Jane Hyun Senior Career Consultant, The Five O’Clock Club Have you ever toyed with the idea of “taking time off” from corporate America? Or trying a new way to give your career a boost? There are, in fact, several reasons that people have been… Read more
Maintaining Focus: how top executives do it.
Successful people commonly work in demanding, highly paced environments. Big budgets, quarterly goals, large staffs, complex projects-all must be handled in an atmosphere of increasing competition and incessant input from phone, fax and email. Many… Read more
A Roadmap for Life: The Forty-Year Vision
by Steve Bolerjack As the century ends, professional life in America has reached extremes-both promising and troubling-that no one could have foreseen even ten years ago. Certainly, we’re in the best job market in 25 years and opportunities abound… 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
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
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
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 Year You Write the Script
by Kate Wendleton The backlash started quietly in 1992. You won’t read about it in Department of Labor statistics or in the New York Times. We saw it at The Five O’Clock Club because we’re on the front lines. In 1992, more workers decided to write… Read more
Job Search Outside the Box: Explore Interim Work as a Short-Term Option in Your Long-Range Vision
Explore Interim Work as a Short-Term Option in Your Long-Range Vision By Wendy Alfus Rothman In today’s tough job market, where some of the brightest, most talented people have been “destaffed”–sometimes more than once–you need every… Read more
Losing Your Mentor: Strategies for Coming Out on Top
by Robin White Goode Welcome to the Five O’Clock Club Chat Room! Just like an online chat room, where people from all over the country exchange ideas on various subjects, our Chat Room column will be a forum of ideas, advice, concerns, strategies… 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
Six Predictors of Career Success — The Five O’Clock Club Sponsored a Study to Help You Get Ahead: Understand Your Industry; Develop Your Contacts
The Five O’Clock Club Sponsored a Study to Help You Get Ahead: Understand Your Industry; Develop Your Contacts by Terri Lowe, Ph.D. People who see themselves as successful told us that they: are knowledgeable about trends in their… 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
Goodbye, Job Security . . . Hello, Career Resiliency!
by Fred C. Hopkinson, head of the Toronto/Hamilton Affiliate of The Five O’Clock Club and President, D. C. Harrison & Associates Limited, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Most people require little honest thought to agree that job security is a… Read more