Beware of the Fog Bank!

When your job is no longer certain or fulfilling and you know you are going to move onto something else but you are not sure what, you launch yourself into uncharted territory because you leave the familiar behind.  There is a certain fuzziness about describing just where exactly you want to go or what you want to do.  The fuzziness becomes the obstacle because without clarity about what’s next, you stumble around in the fog and can go in circles for a long time without making what looks like progress.  You try to see into the …

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You’ve been laid off from your job and it doesn’t feel good.  Of course it doesn’t!  There are lots of fears and concerns that it brings up and you are experiencing a lot of uncertainty about what is next and how you will ever afford to do X again.  You didn’t have any control over the decision, you no longer belong in an organization or in a workgroup, it is embarrassing to say at social gathering that you have been laid off.  And  your status has definitely been impacted by the circumstances which didn’t seem fair, especially in light of …

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Ask someone who is looking for a job about networking and you get many evasive answers as to whether they do it, how often they do it and how much they rely on it to find opportunities.  Most of the responses I’ve gotten contain the word internet in them. 

At risk of sounding critical or like a luddite, “interneting” is not networking. 

Before the internet, in order to hear of an opportunity to pursue or a contact to connect with, you had to be looking, and listening and being in conversation with people.  So you call someone you know and the conversation …

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