The focus of career management today is shifting from the employer to the employee. You as an employee are responsible for your career management, whether you agree with it or not and whether you like or it or not. Prior to our current employment market any organization worth its weight in gold provided career management resources to their employees. In an employee’s market, organizations, good organizations provided leadership development in a variety of forms including tuition assistance, leadership/management tracks within the organization that would help new leaders develop their skills. Annual appraisals are also a form of career management. Feedback …read more

What are Transferable Skills: They are general skills and abilities employers look for in potential employees. In the current job market, it is very important that your identify your transferable skills so that you are not limited to one and only one industry. If you want to be marketable, in this challenging employment climate, versatility and not rigidity is the name of the game.
Here is a list of Transferable Skills to help:

1. Problem Solver
2. Decision-making
3. Planing
4. Teamwork or Team Player
5. Strong Communication Skills (written and oral communication)
6. Leadership Skills
7. Ability to Prioritize
8. Organizational Skills
9. Time Management
10. Organizational Savvy
11. Presentation Skills
12. …read more

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I just realized I’m tired. Maybe I’ve been busier this week than I thought, or maybe feeling more stress, or, or, or… who knows, exactly. But as I wait for a call from a client, I realize I’m tired!
You know what? After the client calls, or doesn’t (sometimes they don’t), I’m taking a nap. I might take the rest of the day off.
Given how much I’ve written this week, it’s possible I’m more drained than tired.
Whatever it is, I’m not going to fight it.
Write well and often,
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Darren Rowse, the prolific blogger at problogger shares how he gets more done than I ever intend to in a post called: How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive
Actually, when I really look at his list, I see some similarities in my own productivity. It’s not at all unusual for me to write three or four thousand words on a book, another thousand or so on a second book, and do three or four blog postings of maybe 400 words each. I also take phone calls, handle email… not as much as he does, but in the hunrdeds …read more

One of those things I’ve always been puzzled about is why so many employers seem to want to watch the writers they hire write. You know what I mean. You’re reading an ad for a writer, realizing you’re perfect for it until – WHAM! – there it is – ON SITE ONLY.
In other words, whoever has posted the ad has limited their pool of potential writers to those who live within commuting distance, and those who are willing to spend the time and the money to commute to and from the job so they can work in someone else’s office …read more