Today, we’re talking about university career centers. I know this episode will be controversial for some, so I’d love to hear feedback, especially from those of you who either work at, or have used the services of, a university career center.

People ask me if they should be connecting with recruiters as part of their job search strategy. There are two primary types of recruiters, with some other flavors thrown in the mix, that I talk more about in this podcast episode.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about boredom at work. In this podcast episode, I talk about ways to mix up routine tasks and how to make them more engaging.

I do a lot of interview coaching with my clients. In this podcast episode, I want to talk about the fatal ways in which candidates show up improperly for the job interview.

This week, we’re talking about how to position yourself as a star performer. According to the book The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace by Cherniss and Goleman, there are several key competencies of Star Performers. A Star Performer is defined as someone who is in the top 10% of performance. The goal is not to be a Star in every competency in each of these clusters, but to have a good balance of competencies across the four clusters.

This week's episode is a trip down memory lane, with a look at how this podcast started, how it got to episode #100, and where we're going from here.

Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain. Today, I want to talk about volunteering as a strategy for developing your career.

As an entrepreneur, my goal on LinkedIn is to get clients – to be seen as the career management expert I am. In this podcast episode, I discuss the benefits of spending a few minutes on LinkedIn every day.

This episode is specifically for women and those who hire, train, coach, mentor, manage, or supervise them. And those who know women. So basically everybody.

One of the topics I’ve talked about before on this podcast is the concept of the bull’s eye as it relates to your dream career. If you think of your career as a dart board, then all of the “suitable” jobs for you are somewhere on that dart board.

Back in 2016, I started what has become an annual Thanksgiving tradition…my list of Five Unusual Things to Be Thankful for. In creating this year’s list, I decided to revisit the three previous years’ lists and share my experiences in this podcast episode.

Emotional Intelligence has been a hot topic for some time now. To my mind, this focus on emotional intelligence is recognition that it isn’t just what you can do for your employer that is valuable, but rather how you do it. How you show up for your coworkers, your boss, your direct reports, your customers, your vendors. Today we’ll talk about the competencies and how they connect to your work environment with IQ, EI, and technical expertise.

There are enough books, articles, and blogs on resume writing out there to fill the Empire State Building a few times over. I thought I would boil all of this down to the least common denominator in this week’s podcast episode.

Today’s topic is How to Work Around a Debilitating Boss. Notice that I didn’t call it a Toxic Boss. There’s a fair amount of overlap between what we might call toxic and debilitating. Rather than focus on whether your boss’s behavior is toxic or debilitating, let’s instead focus on bad boss behavior and what to do about it.

One of the things I coach my clients on around the job interview is how to answer the question, “Why should I hire you?” In this podcast episode, I’ll be covering useful tips and strategies when answering questions in job interviews.

This week’s podcast features guest life coach, Jane Springer. Here, we’ll be talking about buffering – that is, the things you do when you should be looking for a new job.

I get a lot of questions about what should, and shouldn’t, be included in a resume. I also see a lot of resumes that include information that shouldn’t be there. Keep in mind that your resume should be a marketing document. You are selling a product, and that product is YOU. Today, we will cover what should ALWAYS be on your resume, NEVER should be on your resume, and what MIGHT be on your resume.

I’ve heard about goals till I’m blue in the face. And the focus is often on SETTING goals, rather than how to actually ACHIEVE them. In this podcast episode, I want to approach this topic from a different angle.

Let’s talk about this topic of providing personal information during a job interview. Different so-called “experts” will have differing opinions about this, but here’s my stance: In short, my answer is YES. But with conditions.

Today, I want to zero in on something I have mentioned in other podcasts. I call this my +1 approach to job boards. In my work with clients, I differentiate between active job search strategies and passive job search strategies. Of course I want my clients to focus on active job search strategies but there is a way to make your passive job search a bit more active, using my +1 approach. This is what we’ll be talking about today.