Career Strategy Roadmap

The First and Most Important Step in the Job Search: Letting Go of the Old Job

posted on July 28th, 2010 in Association Management Careers, Changing Careers, Finding Opportunities, Interviewing, Leadership Development, Managing Your Career

After a happy and satisfying stint with an organization for which you thought you were a great match – until you got downsized and out-placed – what can you do to move on?

Celebrate what you accomplished!

No doubt you left behind a long list of accomplishments. If you can’t make a list of 10 – 20 things you accomplished there, ask some of your former colleagues or look at your past performance reviews and make a list of all of your successes, both big and small.

Close the door on what you didn’t accomplish!

You also probably left behind a few unfinished …

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Getting Organized – 8 Steps for Managing Your Job Alerts

posted on July 22nd, 2010 in Changing Careers

In the last post we talked about assembling the tool kit for the job search process. For the next few weeks I will be posting some of the processes that you may want to systematize so that you can use your time effectively get the most out of every one of your job search days! Today is the process of Managing Your Job Alerts. We will also be covering processes for Networking Follow-up, Preparing for the Interview, Assembling Your Top 30 List, and many more.

Hey, if you have some ideas about which processes would help you to become …

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11 Tools for the Job Search Process

posted on July 18th, 2010 in Changing Careers

11 Tools for the Job Search Process

Have you ever noticed when you sit down to do a do-it-yourself assembly project that the first step is always to assemble the tools and make sure you have all the pieces that you should have. How many times do you just dive in and start the project thinking that you will just get the tools and figure out what pieces you have along the way? Have you ever noticed that you can waste an inordinate amount of time and cause unnecessary levels of stress for yourself and for others around you when …

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Putting YOU in Your Resume, Really!

posted on June 10th, 2010 in Association Management Careers, Changing Careers, Finding Opportunities, Interviewing, Leadership Development, Managing Your Career

Last week I did a webinar for ASAE Career Services about the Qualifications Summary in the resume. The title was Taking your Resume from Good to Great: Putting YOU in the Qualifications Summary!

“The concept of being able to be ‘me’ in a resume was almost stunning. Didn’t think that was ‘allowed’. Wow!”

The response to the webinar was eye opening. Over 325 people registered in advance so the title obviously struck a note even before the webinar began.

The most telling responses on the post-event survey were all along the lines of the quote above. Over and over people implied …

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Become a Believer in Asking Questions!

posted on June 7th, 2010 in Association Management Careers, Changing Careers, Finding Opportunities, Interviewing, Leadership Development, Managing Your Career, Networking Relationships, Personal Branding

Be curious. Ask great questions!

Going for an interview or exploring some potential employers?

Ask open ended questions of people you meet who work there –What do you like best about working there? What is the prevailing management style? What is the average age (or most prevalent) age of employees? How long have people on staff been on the job?

How often does the leadership meet face to face with the employees? What is important to the organization? What kinds of goals do people have? Are there incentives offered for performance? Is information shared in all directions? …

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Exploring “Fit” in the Interview!

posted on June 2nd, 2010 in Association Management Careers, Changing Careers, Finding Opportunities, Interviewing, Leadership Development, Managing Your Career

Just what does it mean – we’re looking for someone that is the “right fit”?

The chances are good they are not talking about a skills fit, an experience fit, or an accomplishment fit! Those are a given by the time you pass the screening for the interview – or they are close enough that the organization knows that what it needs to check for now is “fit”.

The questions that interviewers are trying to answer about “Fit” include:

Do you have enough in common with and compatible with the people with whom you will be spending a lot of time?
Do …

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Lead with Your Heart!

posted on May 28th, 2010 in Association Management Careers, Changing Careers, Finding Opportunities, Interviewing, Leadership Development, Managing Your Career

Patrick Lencioni introduces Daniel Harkavy as his coach in the foreward to Harkavy’s book Becoming a Coaching Leader. Harkavy asserts there are two big difference-makers between great leaders and just good leaders: 1. Great leaders take special delight in developing their people, in becoming coaching leaders; and 2. The fuel that makes it happen is heart – your beliefs about your people and their potential impact your success or failure as a leader. Many managers are uncomfortable in discussing the “non-business” aspects of an employee’s life and this is often the piece that is …

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