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The Career Planning Process Series – Current Situation and Dreams
The traditional starting place in Career Planning is WHO AM I? but what can sometimes be ignored is WHAT IS MY CURRENT SITUATION? and WHAT ARE MY DREAMS? Key elements in your CURRENT SITUATION may be your location, the job opportunities in your local market or within the company where you are employed, your family situation, your financial situation, your physical health. It can be useful to jot down things working in your favor and things that can hold you back. Here…
Taking a Job in a New City
You might have been transferred by your company or you may have thought that taking a job in a new city would be exciting. Either way, there are things to investigate before you make the change. Know the Economic Difference : Kaitlin, an Artisan Performer, thought she was ready for a new adventure and jumped at a new opportunity in a larger city. Her new salary was higher and the responsibilities were greater. Unfortunately, she hadn’t done her homework…
Handling Salary Negotiations
Negotiation can occur when one accepts a new job and when one is angling for a raise. The Artisan Promoter is the most naturally skilled of all types in negotiation. Here are some tips that they seem to know instinctively: Timing is Everything. In salary negotiations, the one who mentions money first loses. For a new job, never negotiate salary or other benefits until you have an offer of employment. For new employment, a new position or for a ra…
Evaluating an Offer of Employment
Congratulations! You have a job offer. Now let's see if it is a good one for you to accept. Unless you are absolutely desperate for the money, it is best to see how well the job fits with your needs. Here are some factors to consider: The Company: organizational culture, lifestyles of employees, quality of higher management, stability of the organization and industry, prestige of job or organization Details: location, work hours, salar…
Who Will Get Laid Off?
In a union shop, the most common is the last hired, the first fired. However, in organizations that do not have unions, the least valuable/least skilled are first on the lay-off list. If a business is simply right sizing, the desire is to get rid of the “deadwood.” If the business is threatened with non-existence due to financial constraints, cuts may be so deep that even very valuable employees are laid off. Who might fall into the &l…
When Should You Take Career Risks?
The last letter of how you scored on the Keirsey Temperament Sorter gives a hint at how you are most likely to react when faced with a potential career change. Generally speaking the probing Perceiving types are more likely to take risks and move faster than the scheduled Judging types. The scheduled Judging types usually investigate and carefully plan before they make a career change. There are many triggers for taking career risks. The current salary may be too low to survive o…
Preview the Job Fit – Informational Interviewing
Would you buy a car without knowing about its features, gas mileage, upkeep reputation, and cost? Most people spend time talking to others and researching various models and makes. Most people DO NOT spend as much time doing a reality check on potential careers. Serena, an Idealist Champion, had spent three years teaching in an inner city school. She believed in what she was doing, but was feeling worn out. Enrolling in a college career class, she talked about becomi…
Working at Home or in an Office
With the gasoline crunch, some companies are encouraging workers to do part of their work at home and part of their work in the office. Also some parents want to work from home so they can also take care of their offspring. Here's some tips for the various personality styles with a label showing how much time at the office (% O) and how much time at home (% H) could work for them. For all types face-to-face time in an office is necessary if you want to have a fair deal when…
Increased Security Affects Your Hiring
Since 9/11 security has increased in many different areas. Companies that received money from the government have had to increase the paperwork and investigation of new and even old employees. While this may or may not have trickled down to small independent employers, it's best that you become aware of how this could affect you. While investigating references has been common practice for awhile, anything that you say on your job application is coming under increased sc…
Dealing with Stress from Work Series
How do you deal with work-related stress? Each personality type has different stressors and copes in different ways. Better understanding of your own stressors and coping mechanisms can help you reduce the tension and anxiety work stress often creates.
Finding your Passion or the Right Job Series
Is Your Job a Poor Fit?
Are you feeling burned out? Is your job too stressful or too boring? If so, it is time to determine just how your job is being a poor fit. There are many ways a job can become a poor fit. • Sometimes the job is just too much and you become too tired. If you can’t get some relief from the pressure, you may suffer health problems. • Other times the job was chosen because it was just there and available but has never intere…
Mistakes Workers Series
You Wear What You Are
Fitting Clothes to the Job Teens say, "People should judge for who I am, not for how I dress." But people make judgments about others in the first 5 seconds. How you dress can make or break you in your career. Companies, like people, have a particular range of clothes preferences. Start-ups are more likely to have fewer "norms" about clothes. Large, established companies are more likely to have a more conservative "norm." Artsy businesses want mor…
Posted by CareerCoach on Tuesday October 30, 2007 11:20 PM
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Posted by InventorChampionIntuitive on Jul 22, 2008
If you move to silicon valley, nobody will ever care how you dress. (Providing that you're a rational, of course!) |
It depends if you are a professional in a profession that requires business attire like a stock broker would require a coat and tie. The professional couselor might be more suited to casual business attire.