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The Successful Job Hunters’ Report Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell You How They Did It
Listening to our successful job hunters tell their stories of triumph, it is amazing how each story seems to build on the other. The same kinds of issues take on a different complexion each time, showing how personal and unique the process is for… Read more
Making a Difference in a Different Career Rochelle Cohen Reporting on Her Successful Job Search
One of the industries that has felt an impact in the recent economic recession has been advertising. With more and more companies struggling just to keep their doors open, much less remain profitable, advertising budgets have been among the… Read more
“Guess What? People Are Getting Jobs!”
“Just how many of your people get jobs?” we are sometimes asked, especially as the market continues its struggle to turn around. Our answer is, “Everyone who works the methodology—really works it—gets a job.” There’s no doubt that the… Read more
Dateline Dallas: An Affiliate Head Talks About the Technique of Targeting
by Linda Davidson In the late fall of 1993 in Dallas, Rob, a forty-seven-year old real estate company president, started a job search in the usual way: he contacted everyone he knew. He had a feeling that real estate was going to be tough, but… Read more
Lessons to be Learned From Those With Long Searches
Job Hunters Prove the Power of The Five O’Clock Club Methodology by David Madison, Ph.D. Director of the National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches Sometimes we hear about someone who gets lucky and lands a job in two or three weeks…. Read more
Job Hunters Mix Energy, Positive Attitude and a Proven Methodology
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches The Final Interview: Outclassing the Competition We commonly tell job hunters when they arrive at the Club, “This is like a graduate course in job… Read more
You’re Always Close to a Five O’Clock Club Strategy Session
Getting Ready to Be Lucky After more than eight years in her job at a small not-for-profit organization, Janet decided that it was time to move on. “I had been looking off and on for about a year,” she says, but she had not seen much in the way… Read more
The Power of Your Weekly Small Group at the Club
by David Madison Ph.D., Director of the National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches Making the Best Use of the Wisdom of Peers “Having been in HR for more than twenty years,” Julia points out, “I was aware of The Five O’Clock… Read more
Club Members Outperform Competitors & Land New Jobs
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director of the National Guild of Career Coaches of the Five O’Clock A Trade Show Reunion Many people who lose their jobs receive Five O’Clock Club job-search help because they ask for it as part of their separation… Read more
Strategy Groups by Teleconference: Moving Job Hunters Towards Their Goals
by David Madison, Ph.D. Being Ready for the Right Opportunity “I thought I knew everything about networking and looking for a job,” Calvin admits, although he hadn’t been in the job market for a long time. He had been caught in a… Read more
An Open Letter to Five O’Clock Club Members
by Steve Sidorsky Successful job-hunters are always encouraged to return to the Club after landing new jobs or consulting assignments. In lieu of a personal appearance, Steve addressed this letter to Jim Borland, the head of the Five O’Clock Club… Read more
Going for Jobs, Consulting and Career Change
By: David Madison, PhD, Guild Director Keeping the Big Picture in Mind: Aiming for 200 Positions Matthew’s hard work at the Five O’Clock Club resulted in his landing a CFO position at a private investment company. He was able to report his… 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 Hunt Success Stories From the Telephone Coaching Program
-by David Madison, PhD Landing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory How do you find a job that will allow you to use a background in physics and software testing? That was the challenge facing Brian Newport, who lived near Seattle. He searched the web… Read more
Difficult Job Searches YIELD to Five O’Clock Club Methods
Re-Networking to Keep Her Career on Track Julie found that, although she was an HR recruiting professional, there were ‘no tricks of the trade’ to get her through “the nightmare landscape I was in for a while.” For many months she faced a… Read more
Making the World Better and Safer; Clubbers Land Their Dream Job
Five O’Clock Clubbers Land Their Dream Jobs -by David Madison Kristi Ragan: From the UN to the Peace Corps “I got off the phone and had that sinking feeling.” Kristi Ragan had just chatted briefly with the outgoing director of the Peace… Read more
Job-Hunt Success Stories; Working The Method Pays Off
by David Madison We have always said, Don’t skip any part of the system! But we know that different elements of the Five O’Clock Club methodology have come to the rescue for different people as they have applied the methodology to their… Read more
Job-Search 101
by David Madison, Ph.D. Getting It Right with The Two-Minute Pitch “When Phyllis first gave her Two-Minute Pitch to the group, everyone said ‘What?’ Nobody got it.” So remembers the Five O’Clock Club counselor who coached Phyllis’… 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
Winning Formulas from the Insider Program (formerly the Inner Circle); small group counseling by teleconference
by David Madison, Ph.D. The Five O’Clock Club in the Middle of the Night “I had been looking for over a year and a half, and easily had sent out 500 resumes.” After 15 years with an investment firm in Switzerland, Al was conducting a… Read more
Success Stories from the Insider Program (formerly ‘Inner Circle’)
“The process is great, the materials are great, the whole program is really terrific— it’s the best thing I’ve found.” So says Wayne, a Los Angeles real estate executive and veteran of 10 sessions of the Five O’Clock Club Insider… Read more
Job-Search Advice from a Senior Executive
Mark Merriman recently accepted a position as General Manager of the Consumer Division at Cline Davis & Mann, part of the Omnicom network of communication agencies. He began his job search in April 2000, and landed his new position six weeks… Read more
Difficult Job Searches – Yield to The Five O’Clock Club Methodology
by David Madison, Ph.D. It’s not uncommon that people with the most difficult job searches end up at The Five O’Clock Club. They might be career changers who are attempting dramatic “course corrections,” or they may simply be seasoned professionals… Read more
Dramatic Career Changes
Successful Five O’Clock Clubbers Share Their Stories -by David Madison, Ph.D. Some experts on the US labor market predict that the average college graduate today will have four careers (not four jobs, four careers). This is not surprising, given… Read more
Landing Good Jobs After 50; Successful Five O’Clock Clubbers Share Their Stories
by David Madison, Ph.D. “Beauty and youth are no match for age and stealth.” T-shirt slogan in the 1990s Much has been made of the youth-oriented culture of our time, and not a few mass circulation magazines have bemoaned the “plight” of the… Read more
Positioning and Research: Don’t Leave Home Without Them
-by David Madison, PhD Research plays a crucial role in a sophisticated search that leads to the right position. Painstaking research helps the job-hunter identify and define targets, but it also provides valuable guidance for correct positioning:… Read more
Five O’Clock Clubbers Share Their Recipes for Job-Hunting Success
by Mary Harmon This month The Five O’Clock News reports on four members who applied the Club methodology and strategies to find their jobs–and one member who neglected to use a vital element (she learned from her mistake and later landed a… Read more
A Nun Learns the Habit of Self-Promotion
by Mary Harmon Networking: The planned acquisition of contacts for exchanging mutual support, ideas and information. For an example of networking at its best, take a look at a Chicago branch. Not only are members generous about sharing–they give… 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
The Forty-Year Plan® . . . It’s (Almost) Never Too Late: How to Create Your Future Five Years at a Time
By David Madison, Ph.D. When my daughter was a month old, I started writing a daily diary to preserve memories of her growing up. She’s now 28 and I haven’t missed a day since. Now well past the l0,000 page mark–and with my daughter living in… Read more
The Successful Job Hunters Report: Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell You How They Did It
by Robin White Goode Listening to the reports our successful job hunters give is not only inspiring (and fun), but it is also instructional, which speaks to another strength of the Five O’Clock Club approach: its flexibility. Most of our searchers… Read more
Five O’Clock Clubbers In The News
Two Five O’Clock Clubbers were featured in the U.S. News and World Report’s Annual Career Guide, the magazine’s October 28th issue. Marion Manigo-Truell’s smiling picture appeared on the contents page with the caption, “She’s had six careers… Read more
The Successful Job Hunters Report: Five O’Clock Clubbers Tell You How They Did It
By Robin White Goode When Five O’Clock Club members get jobs (which happens all the time, of course), they report back to the group. In their report they strive to: show others how they did it describe a more personalized version of the job… Read more