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Getting Your Mojo On
One of the goals of The Five O’Clock Club is to reach out to potential members through speeches to professional organizations in order to increase its own membership. After all, the 5OCC is as much about career development as it about job… Read more
Answering the Question: “So Tell Me About Yourself . . . ” with your Two-Minute Pitch
by Kate Wendleton Your Two-Minute Pitch is the back-bone of your search–you’ll use it in job and networking interviews, and in cover letters. You’ll be ready when someone says, “So tell me about yourself.” Your resume summary statement serves… 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
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
Your Two-Minute Pitch: The Keystone of Your Search
by Kate Wendleton The “Two-Minute Pitch” is the answer to the question, “So, tell me about yourself.” With a great pitch, people are more likely to see you as appropriate for the kind of job you’re going after. However, as we say at the… 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
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