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Marcia Zidle, a certified career strategist and business coach, works with high potential, high impact executives, managers and professionals to advance their careers and grow their leadership capabilities. [Read more ...]
Career Resilience: How to Bounce Back From Challenges Part 1
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – American inventor, Thomas Edison Edison, despite struggling with failure throughout his work life, never let it get the best of him. He kept experimenting and learning. His resilience gave the world the light bulb as well as these amazing inventions phonograph, the telegraph, and […]
Career Trends: What You Need to Know So You Wont Be Left Behind
Welcome to the new world of work! Whether you’re just starting out, on the way to climbing that ladder of success or looking for a new job or opportunity, here are three trends from JobMob as well as tips to adapt so you won’t be left behind. 1. Out: The Traditional Career. In: Multiple Careers/Multiple Income Streams […]
Don’t Wait Until Job Search, Think Resume In Everything You Do
When job seekers are developing their resumes, they have to identify what they are selling. In other words, what skills and experience do they bring to the employment table. Are their skills state-of-the-art and in great demand or are they rusty or too specialized to be sought after? How many are transferable to different positions, different industries […]
Connect Your Career With Your Personality
You know when you are in a job you like. You also know when the tasks you’re doing just aren’t right for you. What lies behind our feelings of job satisfaction or job dis-satisfaction are our fundamental work interests: Those are the things we enjoy doing, whatever the industry or the job title. One of the ways […]
Career Misfire: You’ve Said Things You Now Regret
I’ve had a disagreement with a coworker. In the heat of the moment, I said things that I wish I hadn’t. How do I remedy the situation? We have all said things we later regretted. That’s human. The important thing is to remedy the situation immediately. Here’s what you can do in a communication or career […]
7 Keys to Career and Life Success
What makes a great life and a great career? Here’s what high performing professionals and managers have said during my seminars on The Career Edge. Key #1: Life Comes at You Fast – Be Prepared, Plan and Anticipate During change, don’t be an ostrich hiding your head in the sand. Be aware of what’s going on. […]
What Is Career Planning?
To make it happen in your career, you need to plan your career. Career planning is a process of understanding oneself, exploring career options, making wise decisions and moving forward. What complicates it is that people, careers and organizations are constantly changing. Therefore, career planning is not something done one time early in your career. […]
Smart Networking: Advancing Your Career
Do you play bumper car or smart networking? Bumper car networking is when you show up at a meeting or social function, bump up to someone for a couple of minutes, talk about this or that, hand out your business card and say something like: “Let’s get together some time.” Now smart networking is different. Its focus […]
Do You Have Boss Problems?
Are you in this situation? You and your boss just don’t seem to connect and work well together. It isn’t that you are having knock down fights. It’s just that you know things could be better. You don’t want to look for another job. So you have to figure out how to make it work. […]
Moving Into Management
How can you ramp up quickly and start getting results? There are few career moments as exciting, and these days as perilous, as being promoted from an individual contributor to a manager. Here are seven career tactics with quotes from professional who have successfully moved into management. 1. Begin your transition before you start the […]