Marketability

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

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

Workplace Politics; Reflections on Personal and Corporate Survival

by David Madison, Ph.D., Director of the National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches The Art of Getting Things Done   Most of us would probably admit a distaste for politics, especially when we think of how government operates. We… Read more

Making Sure Your Business Idea Is Viable

by Kate Wendleton Jared had an idea a week. “My girlfriend and I make soap at night. We want our own soap business.” Later, he mentioned ideas for a tourist business, then a dating service: “Some people are making a lot of money running… Read more

How To Stay On The Cutting Edge

The job market has changed considerably in the last five years. As the economy improves more jobs are becoming available, more businesses are hiring and workers can prepare to trade up or change careers for the first time since the millennium. A… Read more

Learn the Game for Moving Inside Your Firm

by Kate Wendleton Then Teach the Job Game to Inner-City High School Youths Half of the people attending The Five O’Clock Club are employed and looking for a new job. We tell them, “The best job hunts start at home” —by which we mean they… Read more

One-on-One Career Coaching -The Five O’Clock Club Way (why, when, and how)

By: David Madison, PhD, Guild Director Y ou may think of the Five O’Clock Club as a source of help for getting a new job—and you’re right about that—but you should also think of the Club as a “research lab.” Our methodology works so… Read more

Getting FEEDBACK From Others

The most important finding my study yielded was: The men who were introspective, who valued their logic and intuition, were happier and more self-confident than their less introspective counterparts and better able to deal with the stresses of… Read more

Improve Your Performance in Your PRESENT Position

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

It’s Your ‘Marketability’ Silly: That’s How You Take Control of Your Career

In the past, when a successful job hunter reported at the Club, he or she used to be relieved at simply landing a job. Today, members’ reports are more strategic, like this: “The Seven Stories Exercise and the Forty-Year Vision helped me figure out… Read more

Five O’Clock Clubbers tell you about Staying Marketable

by Mary Harmon The days of commitment to one job for life are long gone. For Five O’Clock Clubbers those days have been replaced with a life-long commitment to keeping themselves marketable-in the employment arena as well as within their companies…. 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

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

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

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