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Job Search, American Style
by Katherine Meeks, Five O’Clock Club Career Coach Americans have a unique approach to job search and career development, and people born abroad sometimes have trouble adjusting to it. So I’m going to offer seven insights into American thinking… Read more
Organizations Are Hiring: Be Smart and Brave — Please Hire My Family
By Kate Wendleton I’m so lucky. My family would never be considered activists, but they have always been blind to race, color, religion, sexual orientation and whatever else there is. I rarely even notice hair color or height! Yes, there was… Read more
Keeping Yourself Going During a Job Hunt
“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir,” said Alice, “because I’m not myself, you see.” “I don’t see,” said the Caterpillar. Lewis Carroll They’re all doing terrific! You’re not. You’re barely hanging on. You used to be a winner, but now you’re… Read more
A Lesson in Becoming a Moral Compass
My interview with this man was an eye opener. He was completely honest. He referred to the crime 25 years ago as a mistake of his youth. He said that, if he had not taken the other man’s life, he would himself have died that day. It was chilling. He… Read more
Career Development Advice from a Coach
And Advice From Rocky You may have noticed that many of the articles in our magazine are focused on career development, not job search. That’s because our average job hunter is in the negotiating stage for a new job after regularly attending just… Read more
Should You Have Your Own Business?
I know. I’ll develop my own action toy and have a movie character and comic book.” “I love eating out. I’ll open up a restaurant. How hard can it be?” “I’ve thought of a $2.00 novelty item I can sell to businesses.” “I’ll open up… Read more
Practical Philosophy: The Virtue of Thrift
by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. To be thrifty is to be happy and generous! Avoid stinginess and extravagance. Is through the possession of virtues that people achieve genuine happiness –the full flourishing of the individual. The moral virtue of thrift… Read more
Be a Hero to Inner City Students
Take One On As A Summer Intern or Teach Them About Work. by Kate Wendleton When Paul, my elder son, was a freshman in high school, college seemed far away, theoretical, and too serious. He wanted to take advantage of every second—not by… Read more
On Gratitude
by Richard C. Bayer, Ph.D. We should all learn gratitude if we want to be genuinely happy. Gratitude is most certainly a virtue; and a virtue is a positive habit of character that helps one to act in a reasonable and constructive way. The full… Read more
Job-Search Stress
Who has it, and how they control it. -Survey of job hunters reveals surprising reslults W ith last fall’s terrorist attacks, a recession and massive corporate scandals, a common denominator among people facing the challenge of finding a new job… Read more
Developing Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Can You Do Your Job if People Don’t Like You? -by Wendy Alfus Rothman of The Employment Roundtable Let’s suppose that the morning of a big presentation you have an argument with your spouse. Not a big argument—maybe just one of those… 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
America The Beautiful
by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. The author, Katharine Lee Bates, was born at Falmouth MA. August 12, 1859, daughter of the Congregational Church pastor. The family moved to Wellesley when she was young and she graduated from the high school there, and from… Read more
Be On Track — And the Right Track
A Reminder from Islam by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. A Forty-Year Vision The Five O’Clock Club recommends that you do your Forty-Year Vision so you can get your whole life operating in the same direction. We recommend that you select the right track… 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
Firing with Compassion — and Compensation — Outplacement is Even More Necessary in Today’s Workplace
by Kate Wendleton The firings will continue, but do they have to be so mean? When downsizing began a few decades ago, managers were advised to use a “surgical” approach when letting employees go. No warmth was shown for a person who spent twenty… Read more