Your Job: Should You Stay or Should You Go?

Featured Article & Career Coach: Robyn Feldberg

Have you been thinking about a new job or career? For most people, the idea of launching a job search is as exciting as it is nerve-wracking. Looking for a job can be a daunting task requiring time, effort, and preparation-not to mention the emotional and financial investment. Adding to the stress is the reality that if you're successful, you'll face change, which isn't always synonymous with improvement. Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side but not always.

Jobs are like marriage; they have peaks and valleys. Most adults accept-even expect-some job dissatisfaction, and maturity often helps us deal with minor job grievances and frustrations. After all, work is work, and expecting to love every aspect of your job every day is as unrealistic as expecting every day of your marriage to be pure bliss. That said, you're not married to your job, and there are legitimate reasons to find a new one. Here are 14 factors to consider when deciding if it's time to brush off your resume and start looking at your other options:

1. Industry/Type of Business: Are you motivated and engaged at work or do you regularly feel bored? Do you find the type of business you're in interesting and personally rewarding? Do you dread Monday mornings or look forward to them?

2. Company/Organization: Do you feel that you work for a good company or that it falls short of acceptable? Do you agree with its policies? Does it treat employees fairly?

3. Company Culture: How comfortably do you mesh with the company's culture? How well do you get along with your coworkers? How in sync are the company's atmosphere, size, and mission with your personality and style? [continue article...]

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Working with Purpose - Doing A Job That Matters

Featured Article & Career Coach: Sonia Lakshman

There are few things more soul destroying than doing a job that at really means nothing to us. How many of us have got to the end of a working week to think - "Well, what have I actually achieved" -only to be less than satisfied with the answer. There are only so many email backlogs, ill planned projects, ceaseless targets and endless meetings that the human soul can tolerate. Sooner or later we cry out - "I've had enough, I'm off."

This doesn't mean that we are a generation of must-have-it-alls. On the contrary - we're wiling to slog our guts out, put up with office politics and the tube, if it MEANS SOMETHING at the end of the day. More and more of us are seeking meaning in our work - something that actually MATTERS to us and that satisfies the things that we consider important. This is the age of the individual with each of us demanding more from our lives. It is also the age of a new global consciousness - where we hold the world and ourselves accountable for the state we live in. [Read more!]

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Top 10 Networking Tips

Featured Article & Career Coach: Kim Batson

Without a doubt, the key to successful executive networking begins with careful preparation. Here are my top 10 tips:

1) Develop an action plan
View the creation of a networking plan as you would any executive or business plan. Know your goals and the outcome you desire before you start and stay focused. Decide what you will do and when you will do it. Then execute your plan systematically. Determine to do at least one thing every day to touch your network.

2) Prepare your self-marketing message
Ask yourself: "How do I want to be perceived? How am I perceived at work? What message is consistent with my strengths and my unique contribution in the marketplace? What information will be relevant and important?" Have your sixty-second sound bite and your two-minute self-marketing message prepared, smooth and concise. A coach and a personal brand strategist can help you put together and articulate a powerful and unique value proposition.

3) Gather valuable information
Research using search engines, an online company information database, the library, business journals, news articles, and informational interviewing to determine which companies you are interested in. Then find out all the information on them that you can, including products/services, market position, competition, industry trends, mergers and acquisitions, customer satisfaction (or lack of), financial stability, and current company challenges.

4) Think connectivity beyond the norm
Focus on connecting with individuals and executives that are not only working for, but are vendors of, clients of, or distribution partners of your target company, or who are in some other way connected. They don't have to work there to be a key connection for you. [read more...]

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The ABC's of Career Transition

Featured Article & Career Coach: Robyn Feldberg

A: Accept that you are responsible for your career and your life.

B: Believe that change is possible and that you deserve to be happy.

C: Clarify what you want in your career.

D: Dare to dream big; be determined through hard times; don't let anyone tell you what you can or can't do: define that for yourself.

E: Engage in activities that are congruent with your goals.

F: Find your faith in what really matters; face your fears; focus on what you want; forget perfect.

G: Give yourself permission to try; remain grateful in all things.

H: Hire a trained, certified career coach to help you achieve your career goals more quickly and easily. [Read more...]

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