To rally those who have lost their jobs or are facing possible job loss in the current devastated economic climate, Quintessential Careers has created Job Action Day. Job Action Day, which is today, aims to empower workers and job-seekers to take proactive steps to shore up their job and career outlook.  As a blogger in this space, ...

A few months ago, I met Chandlee Bryan, a dynamic career expert who’s now blogging over at Career Hub.  Chandlee’s new post on career change echoes many of the questions we advice types have been getting since the economy first started nose-diving. How can I can my career in an alternative direction when I don’t have much experience?  ...

Can you imagine a workplace with no pointless meetings, no boss hovering over your shoulder, and no punishment for arriving at 9:05AM?  Two online friends of mine, Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, have just released a new book based on their popular Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) concept, which they pioneered with electronics giant ...

Marketing guru Seth Godin has just set a bunch of us wondering if we really and truly are workaholics. I always thought I was.  After all, I’m driven to work 50+ hours a week.  It’s not enough just to be in the office, I actually have to be contributing something.  If I spend an entire day that’s completely unproductive, I feel ...

We’ve spent some time on this blog discussing the warning signs that you may be in firing range at work, or that you’re unhappy in your current job situation.  This week, CNN.com has an interesting piece on ways we might unknowingly sabotage our own efforts at a successful career.  Among the highlights: Not keeping your skill set ...

Most people know that high levels of stress are associated with a number of negative physical and psychological consequences.  Physical problems include high blood pressure and cholesterol, and an increased risk for heart disease, ulcers, and cancer.  Psychological side effects include anger, anxiety, irritability, and boredom as well as ...

Adrian Savage, an author and a retired business executive, is an older gentleman with some perspective.  He wrote an excellent post on Lifehack about giving yourself the best shot at a good life.  He offers some wonderful lessons for those of us in our twenties and thirties who constantly sabotage our own happiness by allowing ourselves ...

I just adore this post from Lisa Haneberg at the Management Craft blog.  Lisa says that a good way to be more productive in everyday life is to fake your way into pre-vacation mode.  Imagine that you are going on a 4-week vacation next week and change the way you conduct yourself at work.   When we prepare for vacation, says ...

[ImageAttachment] Yesterday, I got an e-mail from a twenty-something management consultant asking how she can recover from a procrastination addiction. The solution depends on why she’s procrastinating in the first place, but here are some motivational arguments for common of the most common scenarios: You can do it later.  Think about ...