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Using LinkedIn to Advance Your Career: Advice from a Coach
This week’s Five O’Clock Club presentation is on “Shortcut Your Search: Internet and Other Research.” Since I will be speaking on this topic at one of our branch meetings I thought it would be a good idea to check my own LinkedIn profile…. Read more
Taking Your Cues From Others
I have become encouraged these past few weeks by the increasing number of informational meetings and job interviews many of our Five O’Clock Club members have been able to generate. While there is some evidence that when the stock market starts… Read more
A Focus on Direct Contact and Networking: The Most Effective Job-Search Techniques
Most job hunters who are not Five O’Clock Clubbers search by contacting search firms or answering ads. But these stories from successful job hunters clearly bear out what our research shows: direct contact and networking are the two most effective… Read more
A Targeted Job Search Could Make 2012 a Very Good Year
Once again we’re into a New Year. Most of us have reflected on things that need to change and we’ve made our resolutions. Now may be the time to make a change that will bring more balance and happiness to your life. The truth is, the happier you… Read more
Job Searching the Old Fashioned Way
With the upcoming theme presentation at the 5OCC on “Shortcut Your Search: Internet and Other Research” I thought it would be helpful to remind our readers of the absolute joy and benefit of spending time at the library or other research… Read more
It’s a GIFT! Make the Most of Holiday Job-Searching
A common misconception holds 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 a holiday employment… Read more
The Perfect Job Search: Want to Shorten Your Search? Go for a Perfect 10!
When you land your new job, be sure to come back to report. For years we have been saying this every week at Five O’Clock Club meetings, and the “job hunter report” has become an established tradition. People look forward to the night… Read more
Encouraging News about the NYC Job Market
Following last week’s blog in which I suggested we eliminate the word “recession” from our daily lexicon given the changing nature of work, I had the opportunity to attend a networking event where Jim Brown, principal economist with the New… Read more
The Five O’Clock Club Brings You: The Inside Scoop About Search Firms
If you’ve been learning the Five O’Clock Club approach, you know by now that there are four ways to get meetings in your target market. You can get meetings through search firms, through ads, through networking and by contacting companies… Read more
The Shortest Route To A New Job
Instead of wasting your time on job listings, go directly to the source. In his editor’s introduction to this year’s Forbes 400 issue of Forbes magazine, chief product officer Lewis D’Vorkin recounts how he first came to work here. “I grabbed… Read more
Manage Your Search as You Would Your Job
Managing your job search can be a challenge. Five characteristics that can help you manage a successful job search are the same ones you used to successfully manage your jobs. 1. Perseverance: Your own resolution to succeed is… Read more
9 ways to use technology to land your next job
E-mail, social networking, cell phones, BlackBerries all have quickly become part of the 21st century way of life. But if you misuse these technologies in your job search, you’ll be one click away from sinking your job hopes. We may be in… Read more
Ask The Juggle: Job-Hunting While Working Full-Time
How do you look for a new job while you are working full-time? More people are expected to change jobs as the economy recovers, and several readers have asked for advice on the question. One reader is troubled by the shroud of secrecy he… Read more
Here’s Hope -Don’t Read Anything Else
In the dentist’s office, I came across the November 16th issue of Forbes magazine. I read the article “Early Risers: It’s still bad out there, but, sensing opportunity, companies across America are starting to hire again” by Christopher… Read more
No Matter What Your Age: The Value of Having a Long-Term Vision
We are living in a culture that emphasizes immediate gratification, does not value planning, and gives slight consideration to consequences. Hence, far too many people, young and old alike, are saddled with credit card debt and live as if there’s… Read more
Some Tips for Getting Jobs in Hard Times
Five O’Clock Clubbers know that they should first do the assessment to determine what they want to do now and what they want to do 15 years from now. Because of this powerful assessment, 58% of those who attend the Club end up changing… Read more
The Holiday Job Search: Full Steam Ahead!
…burying the myth that the holidays are a time to slack off by David Madison, Ph.D., Director of the National Guild of Career Coaches of the Five O’Clock Club Nobody likes to job search. Thus, it is so tempting to put off doing the things… Read more
How to Find Jobs That Don’t Exist at Companies You’ve Never Heard Of
by Wendy Alfus Rothman If you’ve decided to read this article you probably haven’t been able to land one of the jobs that DO exist. Don’t worry! There are plenty of jobs out there. That’s right — plenty. But they are not being… Read more
Using the Internet for Job-Search and Career Management
By: David Madison, PhD, Guild Director T his article is based on an interview with Wendy Alfus Rothman, author of the Five O’Clock Club Job-Search Bibliography, president of the Wenroth Group, and Internet research guru; and on a presentation by… Read more
Making Full Use of the Maturing Workforce
By: Marian Stoltz-Loike, PhD With David Madison, PhD I n the decades following World War II, the nation experienced one of the greatest population explosions in U.S. history. There are 76 million ‘baby boomers,’ i.e., people born between 1945… Read more
How to Target the Internet Job Market The Start of Your “Personal Marketing Plan”–Target Industries
A Five O’Clock Club target consists of an industry or organization size, the kind of position you want within those industries, and the geographic areas that are of interest to you. Use the following to help you organize your job search. Define… 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
Researching the Jobs of the Future
by Wendy Alfus Rothman Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -Marston Bates, American Zoologist There are two kinds of research: primary and secondary. Primary research basically means talking to people, while… Read more
The Career Outlook From The Government
The national economy impacts both local and nationwide job markets. That’s why short- and long-term economic projections are so important to job seekers and career changers. Knowing our economy’s strengths and weaknesses, and how they impact areas… Read more