I recently interviewed Jeff Johnson who is working in a female-dominated career as a surgical technologist. Check out the interview below:     More…  … Read more

Last Tuesday I presented at a networking event for local job seekers. There were 3 other career coach-types (technically I’m not a coach, but hey…let’s just call them coaches for this article to make things simple) talking to groups of 2 to 5 people at a time for about 15 minutes. One was doing resume reviews, the other was talking about working with recruiters, and I was teaching about personal branding. Every 15 minutes, the people at each table would migrate over to the next coach. It was kind of like speed dating, but for job seekers. During one of my conversations, I was asked this question:

There are so many career coaches and job search programs out there, how do I know which one to hire? Is it even worth it?

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I was coaching an entrepreneurial client recently and, as is so often the case, a limiting belief reared its ugly head in the middle of our coaching session. No surprise, as we all have them (limiting beliefs), including moi! Specifically, we talked about putting systems in place that would support her annual revenue goals. Listening [...] ... Read more

I interviewed Seattle career counselor Kate Nelson about personality type and career. Ms. Nelson is an expert in using the personality assessment, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), to assist people with choosing work that is a good fit for their personality. Kate, for readers not familiar with the MBTI, please tell us what the [...] ... Read more

I am a big fan of Brendon Burchard. He’s the author of Life’s Golden Ticket and he tells the story of how he was in a car wreck and almost died. And he realized how short life is. At the time, he was still in college, but that experience changed him and matured him. Pretty inspirational, right? Well, despite having read the book and even watched some of his videos, I didn’t doanything with the knowledge and wisdom he was imparting to me. Until one day when I got an email offering me a free ticket to one of his live 4-day seminars in Santa Clara. I went. ... Read more

Check out this FUN and lively interview with Becky Washington. Becky is the head of Career Services at Portland Community College and a long time Career Enlightenment fan. We talk often and I decided to record one of our conversations so you can get an inside scoop of what us Career Advisers talk about. ... Read more

I came across the following information on the Iseek website and found it quite interesting.

Job requirements have little or nothing to do with gender. In fact, skill requirements in male- and female-dominated occupations are often more similar than you might expect.   More… … Read more

In a recent interview Mike Myatt, author of Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Guide commented: “No matter who you are – you don’t know everything, and the more successful you are, the greater the risks associated with blind spots and knowledge gaps. Continued growth and development are a leader’s greatest competitive advantage – those who fail to recognize this will be replaced by those who do.” Whether you refer to us as Executive Coaches, Leadership Coaches, Leadership Success Coaches or Management Consultants our primary focus is on leadership effectiveness and enabling leadership career success.  Ultimately, we all have same goal: to help the client identify, ‘try-on’ and incorporate new behaviors that will increase the potential for personal and organization success. ... Read more

One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is the gift of a mentor — an experienced colleague by your side who has traveled just a little farther down the road than you have … one who is willing to share her expertise, experiences, encouragement … her mistakes and how to avoid them … ... Read more

The key Human Resource function is recruiting; after all, employers know that their business success links directly to the performance of their employees. Do you as a job hunter realize that your success is also linked to your choice of employer? Choose the wrong company and your career stagnates if not tanks, requiring considerable time and effort to re-establish it. Choose the right company, and your career soars to heights you may only have dreamed of. But how do you determine whether the potential employer is close to perfect? ... Read more