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ONLY YOU are in charge of your personal, professional and career development. Your boss or manager CAN be an ally, a fan, an advocate, and an influencer ... but ultimately, it's up to you to figure out your interests and direction, and then chart a path and plan for achieving that direction.
YOU are in control, YOU must invest the time and energy, and YOU must take responsibility for MAKING your wants and desires a reality. It's truly up to you.
How CLEAR are you on where you want to go NEXT?
Do you have a plan to get there?
Are you fully aware of the obstacles and challenges, and are you taking steps to mitigate or eliminate those obstacles and challenges?
Is your boss, manager, board, etc. in support of your direction? If not, why not? Who else is supporting you on this path?
What action (or actions) do you have underway or in play
NOW that put you squarely on the path to the direction you seek?
How WELL have YOU taken charge of your development?
It’s a pretty typical interview process.
You’ve met with a recruiter and the hiring manager. Now you fly in the night before and meet a bunch of people in a series of individual and group interviews that will last the entire next day. You fly home that night.
They love you and have offered you a job. Ready to accept the offer?
There are 3 fundamental questions anchored in the critical element of a “good fit” at the new job that will tell you whether you have a fighting chance to succeed, and whether or not you should take the job on that basis. They revolve around these areas: cultural fit, technical expertise, and interpersonal relationships.
Where these three spheres intersect and overlap is the “perfect” job; miss out on one, two, or even three and you may have paid hell on earth. Here are the thee big questions for which you should find answers:
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This is a true story as told to LatPro.com, the worldwide leader in providing online employment resources for Hispanic and bilingual professionals. LatPro is the largest diversity employment site in the U.S. and the most complete personal career advancement service for Latino and bilingual professionals. Read the following interview with a Freelance Journalist and get started on your job search today.
For a number of years, I had dedicated myself to becoming a history professor. I received a degree in history and economics from Western Washington University and took a year off to teach abroad as I decided what I would do next. That year changed my life-and my husband’s-forever. … Read more
Posted on Mar 04, 2012 under
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Job Search,
Miscellaneous
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career development,
career planning,
Career Transition,
job search,
Job Search Help,
Job search strategy. by Career Advice.
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Considered pursuing a career in the Finance Industry? This interview will take you through the ups and downs you can expect, what it takes to land the job, what you can expect to earn and more. This is a true career story as told to DiversityJobs, the leading site for job postings directed towards professionals of diverse backgrounds.
I am a partner at a venture capital firm and I have been in this line of work for twelve years now. We focus mainly on tech start-up companies, though we are not limited to that. Primarily, I help do financial analysis of potential start-up companies and decide how to allocate money and investments. This means I sit down and look at the … Read more
Let’s face it; sometimes it’s about the glory, or god – sometimes, though, it’s just about the money.
My lunch with a friend I’ll call “Julie” last week is one such case. Smart and hard working, she jumped from a burning ship to a role she thought would be a great way to spend the next ten years or so of her corporate career.
She got hired for all the right reasons; the new place needed change in the areas in which she brought expertise, and when she was recruited the new place said she brought the skills to make the changes they knew they needed to make.
... Read more Posted on Feb 27, 2012 under
Executive Coaching
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business,
career planning,
employment. by J. Mike Smith.
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Just how do you keep life, like a river, from passing you by?
There are signals everywhere that you must do more to keep your head above water; more if you want to “pull ahead.”
A recent Fortune magazine article chronicled the life of a young exec who had her “home” in San Francisco, lived mostly in an apartment near her work in Menlo Park when she wasn’t spending her considerable time on the road. She usually worked on 4-5 hours of sleep so she could plug into calls and meetings around the world’s time zones. Friends, partner, kids, family – even a dog – weren’t mentioned. Hunch is that they barely exist.
The essence of the question of “life passing you by” is
what life?
... Read more Posted on Feb 20, 2012 under
Executive Coaching
tags
career planning,
leadership. by J. Mike Smith.
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Our 20 week-old Terrier mix pup Porter’s maiden trip to Dolores Park brought back memories of the countless mornings and evenings spent with our much beloved, now-deceased, mutt Roady playing chase, kong fetch, and rolling on his back (Roady, not me) playing “sharky.”
It may turn out that you can go back, but will you find your former beliefs and behaviors in the future?
... Read more Posted on Feb 15, 2012 under
Executive Coaching
tags
career planning. by J. Mike Smith.
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Considered pursuing a career in the Finance Industry? This interview will take you through the ups and downs you can expect, what it takes to land the job, what you can expect to earn and more. This is a true career story as told to DiversityJobs, the leading site for job postings directed towards professionals of diverse backgrounds.
There is trouble in recruiter-land. Talk to any in house recruiter and they know it. Talk to any job candidate and they suspect it. Heck, as someone who has run small, medium, and large size talent...
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... Read more Posted on Feb 13, 2012 under
Recruitment & Executive Search
tags
career planning,
Recruiting. by J. Mike Smith.
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