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How to Debunk the “No One’s Hiring” Myth: The Five O’Clock Club Offers 12 Proven Methods to Help You Land-Yes!-a Job
Looking for a job right now feels overwhelming. But companies are hiring, and, if you do the right things, one is likely to hire you. The Five O’Clock Club says it’s time to apply some (proven, research-based) methodology to your job search madness…. Read more
Unemployed for a Long Period of Time?
Realistic Solutions to a Frustrating Problem In the tough job market that exists today, it is not unlikely for people to search for jobs for months at a time. As job searches drag on, most people feel their morale and energies slip away. At The… 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
Five O’Clock Club Coaches at Work in the Workplace: Helping Organizations Optimize and Retain Top Talent (Part I)
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches This is the first in a series of three articles on the broad topic of executive coaching and leadership development, based on interviews with senior Five… 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
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
The Biased Media: Ignore Them – and use the Five O’Clock Club methodology
Question from a member: Did you read the article “Longer Unemployment for Those 45 and Older” by Michael Luo in the New York Times? What did you think?” Answer: I hope you weren’t tricked by the article. We all know that negative news… 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
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
Just Lose Your Job? You May Be Better Off Than You Think
by Elizabeth T. Hill, Esq. Job loss—especially sudden, unexpected job loss—is traumatic. Part of the trauma is money panic: terror that you won’t have enough money to pay the bills. A few weeks or months of severance might soften the blow,… 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
The Job-Search Buddy System
Do you wish you had someone to talk to—fairly often and informally—about the little things? “Here’s what I’m planning to do today in my search? What are you planning to do? Let’s talk tomorrow to make sure we’ve done it.” You and… 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
The Recession: What makes it so unusual and why it seems to be ending.
by Richard Bayer, PhD On February 28, 2002, John Wieting, Regional Commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, delivered intriguing and timely labor market information to a fascinated audience of the Employment Roundtable… 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
Employment: Current Trends in Turbulent Times
From the Employment Round table by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. Recent months have brought great change and sometimes shock to the United States, and especially to New York City. We have experienced an economy likely in recession, hijackings and the… Read more
A Christmas Story: from homelessness to a vision fulfilled
by David Madison, PhD Ask Mary Margaret Cannon about obstacles—she has quite a story to tell. More than most of us, she has known the trauma of opportunities “falling away through no fault of your own.” Indeed, a series of dramatic… 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
What Longevity Means to Your Career
by Lydia Bronte, author of The Longevity Factor In every era there have been a few people who lived to be unusually old, but who kept working—and were still good at what they did. We all know that Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall continued to paint… Read more
Five O’Clock Clubbers Talk About Their Role Models . . . From Winston Churchill to an Executive Mom
by Mary Harmon In The Five O’Clock Club book Targeting the Job You Want, the chapter titled, “A Reminder of Some Basic Career Principles” advises: “Pick a few role models . . . Select the characteristics you like from each . . . ” The Five O’Clock… Read more
GET A LIFE!!! Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell How They Balance Their Lives
by Mary Harmon In Targeting The Job You Want, one section is titled “Having A Balanced Life.” It emphasizes the importance of life planning and urges readers to set goals for all areas of their lives. “I included this section because balance is… 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
Do Yourself a Favor: Hire My Brother
by Kate Wendleton Everyone has a handicap–something they think will hold them back in their careers. It could be that they feel they are too young or too old, have too little education or too much, are of the wrong race, creed, nationality, sex or… 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
Six Steps to a Healthy Self-Esteem
by John Leonard Are you in control of your life and career, or do you feel trapped in some dead-end job that seems to be sucking the energy out of you? Do you believe you have the power to shape your destiny and call the shots, or do you believe… Read more