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The Six Missing Pieces
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The Five O’Clock Club National Guild of Career Coaches In the fall of 2009, a member of the Club told me that he would like to change coaches. He said that he had been attending his small group for eight months,… Read more
How to Contact Companies Directly
by Kate Wendleton Without effort we cannot attain any of our goals in life, no matter what the advertisements may claim to the contrary. Anyone who fears effort, anyone who backs off from frustration and possibly even pain will never get… Read more
You’re Always Close to a Five O’Clock Club Strategy Session
Getting Ready to Be Lucky After more than eight years in her job at a small not-for-profit organization, Janet decided that it was time to move on. “I had been looking off and on for about a year,” she says, but she had not seen much in the way… 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
Ending the Myths. Get More Meetings Through Direct Contact
Search Firms. Ads. Networking. Ask most people how to get interviews, and that’s what they’ll mention. But The Five O’Clock Club, the nationwide career-coaching network, wanted to find out what really works. Its survey of professionals,… Read more
How to Handle the Telephone: A Life Skill
During the course of a normal business day, you probably talk by phone to most of the people you talk to at all. And you are probably not conscious of the number of times you have called people you are trying to contact. If they’re not in, you try… Read more