I have to tell you this because I think we all need to hear it: There’s no such thing as job security. That was true before the Covid-19 pandemic, but it’s even more evident now. On one hand, I think we were all starting to see the cracks in this ideal, that there are some […]
I’ve got a list of productive things I’d like to tackle while the coronavirus storm blusters onward: Clean out drawers. Organize computer files. Design new client resources. Learn how to groom my dog. Paint my home office. Try new recipes. All of these are activities I don’t normally have time for. You’ve probably got a […]
So far I’ve challenged the idea that you have one perfect job waiting for you out there and that you should be asking yourself “What’s the best thing for me to do?” among other career myths that are holding us back. This time, I want to explore another career myth I hear every so often. And […]
I hear a lot of unfounded ideas of how to find a job that is right for you. Nothing breaks my heart more than people accidentally getting in their own way! And that’s exactly what career myths are: lies we’ve been told that are keeping up from achieving happiness. So far I’ve dispelled several myths […]
You didn’t land your dream job this year, but that’s okay. You had other things going on. If anything, it’s made your resolve to find a new job even stronger. Nothing at work has changed, except your patience to tolerate uninteresting projects and a continuously increasing workload. You don’t want so much to land a […]
Over the handful of months, I’ve taken it upon myself to dispel unfounded and harmful myths about careers and the job-searching process. These career myths are straight from the clients’ mouths—we all seem to think we know what a career should look like and how to build it, but sometimes we couldn’t be more wrong. […]
Unfounded and untrue myths about job searching and careers are a major source of stress for my clients, and it pains me when I see them needlessly struggle. I’ve been spending the last couple of months here trying my best to dispel the lies we’ve been told. I’ve tackled the actual risk of changing careers, […]
This career myth is a big one. A lot (and I mean a lot) of people think that changing careers, no matter at what age, whether they’re right out of college or in their 50s, is too risky a move. They think changing careers is for other people, not them. (Sound familiar yet?) For this […]
More and more I hear people talk about the importance of having healthy self-talk—making sure the dialogue in your head is helpful, accurate, and caring. This goes for the stories we tell ourselves too. We carry around a lot of preconceived ideas about what we should be doing and how we should be going about […]
Last month, I started compiling a list of unfounded preconceived ideas that my clients sometimes have about how job searching goes and what is and isn’t done. And whenever a client was struggling to get where they needed to go, it often stemmed from this list. So I think just about everyone will benefit from […]
