For most of the 20th century, career advice could be summarized in a single sentence: pick a lane, stay in it, and move up. Today, that advice feels not just outdated, but actively misleading. If you’re job searching with a résumé that doesn’t follow a straight line, you may feel a quiet anxiety every time[…]
You can work longer hours, chase bigger titles, and check every box you were told leads to success – and still feel like you’re falling behind. If that sounds familiar, the problem likely isn’t your talent, effort, or ambition. It’s your habits. Most people define “success” differently. For some, it’s money or status. For others,[…]
Recently, I’ve been talking a great deal about recession-proofing your career, preparing your resume for skills-based hiring and even how to pivot out of your current career. The question I’ve received the most is “well WHAT skills do employers want when you talk about skills-based hiring?” Great question! So let’s dive into that a little[…]
Regardless of what your title is, you’ve heard it before: “[the candidate] has every skill we are looking for, but he or she just isn’t a cultural fit”. This usually occurs sometime after you have interviewed the 52nd person for the role, and before you pull your hair out! Hopefully that is a slight exaggeration,[…]
If you’ve ever had an employee who should be a top performer but keeps plateauing, you know the emotional roller coaster of trying to “fix” performance. Most managers in that moment default to one of two extremes: Newsflash: neither works. Improving employee performance is not a one-time conversation – it is a system. And the[…]