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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
Emotional Roller Coaster
10 Ways to Confront job-Search Stress by David Madison, Ph.D.Director of the National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches “In this world,” Ben Franklin wrote in 1789, “nothing is certain but death and taxes.” That was before the… Read more
What Employers Need To Know About Mental Health
by Vera Oziransky, Advocacy Associate, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), NYC-Metro Mental health was recently ranked as having the greatest impact on productivity and absenteeism by employers in a report published by Employer Benefit… Read more
Bouncing Back From 9/11; The Challenges and the Progress
by David Madison, Ph.d. The following article is based on a panel presentation at the March 12, 2004 meeting of the HR Network at the Marsh headquarters in Manhattan. The network is co-sponsored by Marsh and the Five O’Clock Club, and is a venue… Read more
10 Ways to Confront Job-Search Stress
by David Madison, Ph.D. The following article is based on a panel presentation to the December 11, 2003 training workshop of Five O’Clock Club coaches in New York. The panelists were Bill Belknap, Renée Lee Rosenberg and Mary Anne Walsh. Bios of… 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
Dealing with Depression
by Kate Wendleton and Dale Dauten “Kate & Dale Talk Jobs” is a nationally syndicated newspaper column appearing in The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The New York Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston Chronicle and approximately… Read more
Unemployed Job Searchers Can Edge Out Employed
Strategy and Time Management are Keys by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. Too many job hunters fall into the trap of believing it’s only the currently employed who get the best job offers quickly and command the highest salaries. Unemployed searchers may… 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
No More Sweaty Palms: You Can Tame Performance Anxiety
by Richard Rabkin, M.D. You’re standing at the podium, about to present the pitch that will determine whether your company gets the client–and may decide whether you keep your job. Your fingers won’t stop drumming and fidgeting, and you feel a… Read more
Coping with Success: Managing Energy Gone Awry
by Marilyn Puder-York, PhD As a clinical psychologist who counsels successful executives, I regularly encounter clients whom I call “high energy.” These people are stars: Exceptionally bright and creative, they are most often leaders, heads of… Read more
Procrastination: An Epidemic by Michele Tulier, Ph.D.
by Michele Tullier, Ph. D. Is there something on your to-do list today that you should have done yesterday? Have you been meaning to get around to changing careers or starting a consulting business? Procrastination is no longer a minor nuisance… Read more
How Society Affects Spirit, Performance and Success: Why Affirmative Action Has Not Outlived Its Usefulness
Why Affirmative Action Has Not Outlived Its Usefulness by Deborah Brown Perhaps the greatest misconception about affirmative action is that it is a preference program. Affirmative action has never meant giving unqualified individuals access to… Read more