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WorkSmarts: Be a Winner on the Job
Coming in June/July 2012. A Five O’Clock Club coach is often the “secret weapon” behind a manager’s or executive’s success, and executive success is what this book is all about. Work smarter, not harder, to move your career forward…. Read more
A Hollywood Story Executive Finds Her Own Story
She remembers the day vividly. One morning in January 2009, Amy Handelsman arrived at her office at a media company in New York and turned on the television set. Barack Obama was about to be sworn into office as the next President of the United… Read more
Five O’Clock Club Quoted In Businessweek, NPR, Boston Globe, MSNBC . . .
Five O’Clock Club President, Kate Wendleton, recently spoke with the Associated Press about investing in your career for an article that ran widely in publications throughout the country. Read the article… Read more
Information Please! how to send and receive phone messages.
Every now and again I feel the impulse to share with you one of my pet peeves and that is knowing how to send and receive phone messages, particularly in this age of cell phones, pda’s and I-phones! Here are a few simple techniques to keep in… Read more
Termination with Dignity
If you lay off one or more staff members, what impact will that have on those who remain? Will productivity—and the bottom line—suffer? Are you likely to lose your best people who will worry about their positions? Or will morale increase… Read more
The Five O’Clock Club now offers free audios to help you in your job search
The books have been available for years, updated every few years. Job hunters listen to the audios again and again, and say that it becomes part of them. For someone who is depressed, listening to the audios can take them out of themselves and… Read more
The Five O’Clock Club now offers lifetime membership
Whether you once paid $49 for membership or became a member because of services provided by your employer, every member of the Five O’Clock Club is a member for life. This means you always have access to the Members Only area of our website, which… Read more
Mastering the Methodology Five O’Clock Club Coaches Speak Out About the Path to Certification
It is not a magic formula—just a common sense approach to career development,” says Phil Ronniger, a senior coach at The Five O’Clock Club. His sentiments are echoed by master coaches Roy Cohen and Chip Conlin. Roy makes it clear that they… Read more
“Super Bowl XLV is a memory, fading away faster for some of us than for others, but it brought one thought back to this coach’s mind: “Business is a contact sport.”
This is an important thought to keep in mind. Unlike Super Bowl commercial time, contacts are a dime a dozen; and at that over priced. The new CAREER AND JOB-SEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY makes it easier than ever to identify contacts. Combine this gold mine… Read more
The HR Network Overview
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Press Coverage
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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
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
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
Human Resources and How to Let People Go
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The Five O’Clock Club National Guild of Career Coaches The Accountability of HR Outside the world of Donald Trump, the actual words, “You’re fired,” are probably seldom uttered in the workplace. There… Read more
Don’t Miss the Small Group Strategy Session
This is not like any other group you may have attended. It’s not a support group, but you do get support. It’s not a networking group, but you may get networking contacts. In a Five O’Clock Club small group, you get one-on-one coaching in a… Read more
HR Speaks Out about Best Termination Practices
“There is nothing worse than being escorted from your place off work, a place where you have come day after day and given your time and your blood. You missed your kid’s soccer games to be there, and now they are saying to you, ‘You are so… Read more
The Five O’Clock Club’s Diagnostic Approach
So many poor attempts. Nothing is sadder than to meet someone who has already been getting job-search “help,” but the wrong help. They’ve learned the old-fashioned techniques that are no longer so effective. Most have lookalike Resumes and… Read more
When Your Employer Cares About You
We are proud of our many HR customers who care what happens to their displaced employees. In fact, HR people can become heroes in their companies by telling their employers about the Five O’Clock Club outplacement program. We work with each… Read more
What are these people talking about?
What Are These People Talking About? FIVE O’CLOCK CLUBBERS SPEAK IN SHORTHAND “It fell away through no fault of my own.” Five O’Clock Clubbers know the research: Out of six to ten job possibilities, five will fall away through no fault of… Read more
Will You Get the Right Type of Outplacement?
Forget the desk and phone! There’s a myth in outplacement circles that a terminated employee just needs a desk, a phone and minimal career coaching. Our experience clearly shows that downsized workers need qualified, reliable coaching more than… 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; 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
The Small Groups Pay Off
Things got tough for job hunters after 9/11, as you will see in some of the stories in this issue. But most of those who stuck with it were successful. We tell job hunters to follow every step of the process, regardless of how long they may have… Read more
Don’t Pay Heavy Up-Front Fees; The Five O’Clock Club Is On Your Side
by Kate Wendleton, President It’s the same old story. This time it appeared in the January 4th issue of the New York Times, “Career Management Firm Fights Complaints.” The article reports that “hundreds of dissatisfied customers are… Read more
Five Years at Our Harlem Branch
by David Madison, Ph.D. Ruth Robbins is a Certified Five O’Clock Club counselor and valued member of the counseling staff at the main branch in Manhattan. There she rubs shoulder every week with middle level and senior professionals, a third of… Read more
Downsized Professionals and Managers Prefer The Five O’Clock Club
Once again, the Five O’Clock Club is the provider of choice. In a recent downsizing of 19 professionals and managers (whose salaries range from $35,000 to $150,000), all 19 were given a choice between the Five O’Clock Club and a major… Read more
BENEFITS of Membership in The Club
$49.00 for one year or $75.00 for two years, (Add $10 per year for foreign memberships to cover additional postage.) I will receive: a truly beautiful, jam-packed Beginner’s Kit a membership card a one-year subscription to The Five… Read more
The Insider Program: A Report Card
by David Madison, Ph.D. The Five O’Clock Club launched its Virtual Branches several years ago, in response to increasing demand from around the country that our weekly strategy sessions be made available to job hunters everywhere. Now… Read more
The Five O’Clock Club From Home
A man who found the Five O’Clock Club books at his library near Denver calls to ask if there is a local branch. A woman in Seattle who bought the books at Barnes & Noble wants to know if she can attend our weekly seminars. And a man in Phoenix… Read more
When to See a Counselor Privately
Just as you have a doctor to help you with medical problems (or to prevent problems), consider developing a relationship with a counselor who gets to know you over the long term. Come in when you have specific problems, such as those listed below,… Read more
The Five O’Clock Club’s “Strategic Partnerships”
by Steve Bolerjack What exactly are Five O’Clock Club “strategic partnerships?” They are significant alliances with various large-membership associations, trade groups, corporations and other professional organizations that provide a two-way street… Read more
You–Our Members–Come First: Building Our Network–and Yours!
You come first. The bigger our network, the better your network. As we form partnerships with large associations, trade groups and corporations, the better it is for our members and also for the organization’s members or employees. At present,… Read more
Stay Put. Meet Interesting People. They All Come to The Five O’Clock Club
“One organization with a strong record of helping people find jobs is The Five O’Clock Club.” FORTUNE I meet the most interesting people in the world–right at The Five O’Clock Club. We’ve had orchestra conductors, producers and actors, a nun and… Read more