How to Recognize Good Management During Job Search

Good management is hard to find and recognize. Here is a 10 minutes one-on-one coaching discussion I had with a job seeker on how to best recognize whether a company has good management while she is interviewing with the company. She has 10+ years of experience and so far has had mixed experiences with good [...]

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Good Management – How to Recognize it During Job Search?

How to recognize whether a company has good management during job search?  What a great question from a reader and a very relevant one to ask for any job seekers.  Working for good management is essential to your job success and happiness at work.  It is however hard to decipher whether a company has good [...]

Should I Interview While Pregnant?

Should I interview while pregnant?  The answer is Yes, absolutely.   I am learning this first hand as I am 6 months pregnant with my second child and currently in between consulting contracts.  You may say, no one will hire me while I am pregnant, so why bother.   I had the same perspective at [...]

Are You Overworking? 4 Tips on How to Stop

If you are overworking, you are not alone.  Here are some statistics on how hard American work today (see detailed infographics at the end of this post) Over 75% of Americans work more than 40 hours a week and about 10 million Americans work more than 60 hours a week 10% of worker take work [...]

7 Steps to Effective Interpersonal Communication

Anyone can master interpersonal communication.  There are only a few people who are naturally good at it.  For the rest of us, it will take conscious efforts and practice.  I recommend using 7 steps to achieve effective interpersonal communication at work today. Start with self awareness - Do you know how well you communicate today?  What [...]

How to Network – Party More

I am not joking. I will prove it to you why “partying more” will help you with networking.  I went to a Deloitte Consulting alumni event last week and had a blast. I met up with so many old friends, had fun, and discussed quite a bit of business at the same time. I worked [...]