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Job Search, American Style
by Katherine Meeks, Five O’Clock Club Career Coach Americans have a unique approach to job search and career development, and people born abroad sometimes have trouble adjusting to it. So I’m going to offer seven insights into American thinking… 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
A Lesson in Becoming a Moral Compass
My interview with this man was an eye opener. He was completely honest. He referred to the crime 25 years ago as a mistake of his youth. He said that, if he had not taken the other man’s life, he would himself have died that day. It was chilling. He… 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
Should You Have Your Own Business?
I know. I’ll develop my own action toy and have a movie character and comic book.” “I love eating out. I’ll open up a restaurant. How hard can it be?” “I’ve thought of a $2.00 novelty item I can sell to businesses.” “I’ll open up… Read more
Practical Philosophy: The Virtue of Thrift
by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. To be thrifty is to be happy and generous! Avoid stinginess and extravagance. Is through the possession of virtues that people achieve genuine happiness –the full flourishing of the individual. The moral virtue of thrift… Read more
Be a Hero to Inner City Students
Take One On As A Summer Intern or Teach Them About Work. by Kate Wendleton When Paul, my elder son, was a freshman in high school, college seemed far away, theoretical, and too serious. He wanted to take advantage of every second—not by… Read more
On Gratitude
by Richard C. Bayer, Ph.D. We should all learn gratitude if we want to be genuinely happy. Gratitude is most certainly a virtue; and a virtue is a positive habit of character that helps one to act in a reasonable and constructive way. The full… 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
Developing Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Can You Do Your Job if People Don’t Like You? -by Wendy Alfus Rothman of The Employment Roundtable Let’s suppose that the morning of a big presentation you have an argument with your spouse. Not a big argument—maybe just one of those… 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
Be On Track — And the Right Track
A Reminder from Islam by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. A Forty-Year Vision The Five O’Clock Club recommends that you do your Forty-Year Vision so you can get your whole life operating in the same direction. We recommend that you select the right track… Read more
Ethics in the Information Age; The Puritan Work Ethic and Beyond
-by Richard Bayer, Ph.D. One gets a sense of the overwhelming importance of character traits for success from reading this month’s cover story, “New Millennium Resolutions: Good Habits for the 00’s.” Through the… 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
A Roadmap for Life: The Forty-Year Vision
by Steve Bolerjack As the century ends, professional life in America has reached extremes-both promising and troubling-that no one could have foreseen even ten years ago. Certainly, we’re in the best job market in 25 years and opportunities abound… 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
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
The Successful Job Hunters Report: Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell You How They Did It
by Robin White Goode If one word could describe the thread that seems woven through each of the reports below, it is persistence. In the face of “impossible” odds, ignorance, even downright rejection, these job hunters and consultants kept pushing…. Read more
Use Career Strategies to Bolster Your Confidence–Conquer Job-Change Fears With Five O’Clock Club Techniques
by Rose Ann Pastor Are you facing a job or career change? Taking on the challenge successfully isn’t easy, but happily the rewards are many. To move your career forward with greater confidence, you’ll need to learn some basic career management… 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
Is It Ever Acceptable Behavior To Reach Out and Touch Someone?
By Ronna Archbold Broadway is reviving the 1961 musical hit How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which tracked an ambitious young man’s journey from the mailroom to the executive suite. The producers concede that they had to do some… Read more
It Matters How You Shake It
By Ronna Archbold Handshaking is an ancient ritual. It is reported as long ago as 2800 B.C. in Egypt. According to historian Charles Panati, folklore places the handshake even earlier and speculates that because the right hand is the weapon hand,… Read more
10 Ways to Become More Charismatic
by John Leonard In the foreword to his book Top Performance, Zig Ziglar cites research done by the Stanford Research Institute, Harvard University, and the Carnegie Foundation which finds that 85 percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job,… Read more
No One Is Doomed to Be Shy
Margaret DiCanio, Ph.D. Shy people are typically so paralyzed by fear that they show little interest in others. As a consequence, they fail to hold up their end of conversations, leading those with whom they interact to assume they are stuck-up or… Read more
Are You Cut Out to be a Successful Entrepreneur ?
by Henry Sedgwick A study recently completed by investigators at Marquette University, in collaboration with the University of Michigan, indicated that 3 percent per year of the population in Wisconsin between the ages of 20 and 55 took some… Read more