Today is November 8th, 2022. In the early morning hours, there was a…
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Ahead of this publication, I polled my LinkedIn audience with this question:
Have you been rejected from a job opportunity before?
Might seem like an easy “yes.” But the results are…
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Outside it was paradise. The sun was shining. The waves were lapping on the beach shoreline and all the comfort of being on a vacation in the tropics enveloped me. Stepping inside the hotel room to change for dinner, I caught wind of news in the United States…
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I submitted my query and waited.
As I clicked open that email reply, I probably held my breath just a bit because she was my first choice. To my delight, the answer was…
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As a Chicago Bulls fan in the 90s, you just assumed the greatness of winning would continue. In the wake of the first retirement of Michael Jordan, it may have caused some young fans to realize this doesn’t always last.
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Perhaps you’re thinking, “This is an odd opening to an article about becoming a natural networker in five steps…” But that opening was a window to natural networking.
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In error, I tried to solve the problem by switching the environment. I quickly learned that didn’t work. The delay in accurately assessing what needed to change meant that I was now walking in a maze without a map to see the way out.
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Sometimes we live so far out in the future we despair in the present because we have cast a vision of doom and gloom. Or we live so far out in the future that we sit in the clouds because we dream of something much better than where we find ourselves. In the middle of those two extremes is the balance of reality.
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I think some active Job Seekers feel as though they have the same 3-page picture illustration to navigate to their next opportunity. Where are the quality instructions? Where is my hefty toolkit to use the right gadget to achieve the best results?
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A job search can have all the creative strategies applied to it, but if you are missing this, it will fail.
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Do you ever think about where you were and what you were doing when the whole world shut down in March 2020? It’s something I’ve contemplated more recently because this Friday the REACH™️ Mentoring Program is gearing up for an Expert Panel Discussion on Pre/Post COVID — Looking Back to Understand Here + Now.
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It dawned on me that many… probably don’t know the story behind the logo of the RP4C brand.
You may have seen or known that RP4C is the acronym for Reaching People 4 Careers… but did you know that in career coaching work, we zoom in on four critical things so your career can be built on a firm foundation?
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Careers can get jacked up. It feels a little hopeless and not at all fun to have to untangle the mess of the career trajectory we’ve been on. But if you don’t, can you really move forward?
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…I’ve designed and built a framework that allows me to work with any professional from any industry and still see results. To commemorate this fourth birthday, I will share the four critical things you need for a successful arrival into your next opportunity when working with RP4C.
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Every single person has been there. Like a weighted blanket that surrounds us and keeps us glued to the couch, there is a feeling that surfaces at the point of wanting to quit.
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I think when we start a new job, the natural expectation is that it will always be there. And how many of us reading this article have either experienced job loss or know someone close to us who has?
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The impetus for this article came with an unexpected visitor to my house last week. I’m new to Florida living, so “wildlife” is something I’m getting used to. A frog leapt into my kitchen from the sliding glass door as I was bringing my dogs back inside. In a cocktail of surprise and panic, I managed to figure out the best method of getting him back outside.
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Based on my recent road trip singing, it would take a miracle for me to hit the highest note sung by a female. But it has been done by someone else.
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I see this as a challenge for some professionals in the Job Search as well.
You can know what to do, but actually allowing the activity of the search to be a constant hum in your weekly activity vs. short staccato bursts is the big difference between hoping for change and seeing it happen in your career.
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So there I was. On the surface, a well-put-together young female professional doing cool things like speaking at a national healthcare conference with only two years of experience. Behind the facade I put up, I was really just a moment away from falling apart.
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