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Consulting Work SOMETHING TO BE CONSIDERED
Fifteen percent of the attendees at The Five O’Clock Club are looking for consulting work as opposed to fulltime, on-payroll positions. Whichever you are looking for, the basic techniques apply: Develop a target list of organizations to… 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
Having A Career Instead of a Job
by Kate Wendleton Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. Stephen R…. Read more
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
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
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
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
Job Hunt Success Stories From the Telephone Coaching Program
-by David Madison, PhD Landing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory How do you find a job that will allow you to use a background in physics and software testing? That was the challenge facing Brian Newport, who lived near Seattle. He searched the web… Read more
Job-Hunt Success Stories; Working The Method Pays Off
by David Madison We have always said, Don’t skip any part of the system! But we know that different elements of the Five O’Clock Club methodology have come to the rescue for different people as they have applied the methodology to their… Read more
Working with a Career Coach.
by Kate Wendleton Here’s the lowdown on how these “guidance counselors for the working world” can help you reach professional highs. When I was looking for some professional guidance back in 1978, finding a career coach was like looking… 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
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
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
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
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
GET A LIFE!!! Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell How They Balance Their Lives
by Mary Harmon In Targeting The Job You Want, one section is titled “Having A Balanced Life.” It emphasizes the importance of life planning and urges readers to set goals for all areas of their lives. “I included this section because balance is… Read more