Archive Tagged Career Coaching

Career Coach News: Networking for Shy People

We all know the value of networking to help you in finding a career, transitioning into a new career or strengthening your current career. But for some of us who are shy, it may make us feel a bit uneasy to approach and derive the most value from a networking event. To help, we’ve put [...]

Executive Coach News: Twitter Traffic Tips

Twitter, a microblogging service, only allows you to post 140 characters at a time, but many businesses and executives are stumped by what to say. Dan Zarrella’s “The Social Media Marketing Book” (O’Reilly Books, $19.95), has some Twitter traffic tips for businesses as part of a successful social media strategy. Here are some of his best Twitter tips: [...]

Career Coach News: Resume Advice Tips, Part 2

Resume Advice Tips Don’t Make These Job Search Mistakes Career expert Donna Svei of AvidCareerist.com has 23 years of experience in the employment field. She shared some resume advice tips with the Institute for Coaching last week. Here are some more of the most common mistakes she sees, as well as some more resume advice [...]

Career Coach News: Resume Advice Tips, Part 1

Resume Advice Tips Don’t Make These Job Search Mistakes If you’re looking for a job, there are some big mistakes you could be making with your employment search — without even realizing it. Career expert Donna Svei has some resume advice tips to help you. Svei, the founder of the popular job advice site AvidCareerist.com, has [...]

Career Coach News: Getting a Promotion – What to Look For

You may be positioning yourself for a promotion, but is it what you really want? That’s a question you need to ask yourself, says Seth Kaufman, psy.d, Certified Career and Life Purpose Coach with the Institute for Coaching. He says you need to ponder whether the new job is ”something that you want ” or if it [...]

Career Coach News – Do Entrepreneurs Need an MBA?

One of the big decisions entrepreneurs face is whether they need to go for a Master’s in Business Administration. So is it necessary? It depends, says Seth Kaufman, psy.d, Certified Career and Life Purpose Coach with the Institute for Coaching. “Sometimes you do, sometimes you don’t,” says the coach. He says the additional education [...]

Career Coach News: How to Schedule an Informational Interview

No matter how technologically advanced society gets, making a personal connection is still the top way to get a job, says Seth Kaufman, psy.d., Certified Career and Life Purpose Coach with the Institute for Coaching. Instead of spending all your time submitting your resume to online job postings, Dr. Kaufman proposes that you spend some [...]

Career Coach News: How Clarity Can Change Your Job Search

If you want to get a new job, you have to know what it is you’re looking for, and why, says Seth Kaufman, psy.d, Certified Career and Life Purpose Coach with the Institute for Coaching. Dr. Kaufman emphasizes “clarity” as an important part of any successful job search. He says you have to know “exactly [...]

Wall Street Journal – Finance Jobs Vanish, But Not as Fast as Job Seekers

Finance Jobs Vanish, But Not as Fast as Job Seekers By Kyle Stock January 10, 2011 The ranks of finance and insurance workers, both employed and unemployed, thinned substantially in the past year, as the industry continued to shrink in the wake of the crisis. The number of workers at banks and underwriters declined by 262,000 [...]