by Laurie Swanson | Sep 19, 2022 | Career Blog
I am working with a coaching client who has been getting ready to launch her job search. For a while now. She was overwhelmed by the number of decisions she felt she needed to make in order to have a successful job search. And so she had done nothing at all. Good old...
by Laurie Swanson | Sep 12, 2022 | Career Blog
“Quiet quitting” is the phrase of the day. I have seen a few definitions. I am all for the quiet quitting idea of setting better boundaries to create improved work/life harmony. The definition that gets in my craw is the idea of quietly backing off your workload....
by Laurie Swanson | Sep 5, 2022 | Career Blog
THIS IS A REPLAY OF A PREVIOUS LABOR DAY BLOG. Great Advice Twice! We recently had our windows replaced and we were removing memorabilia off of a shelf in my son’s room. One of the things I found was an old bookmark he must have received in grade school with a...
by Laurie Swanson | Aug 29, 2022 | Career Blog
In 1973, Mark Granovetter, Princeton and Harvard grad, American sociologist and professor at Stanford University, published a landmark study on the spread of information in social networks. Q: What is one of the strongest ways to learn about a job opening or to land...
by Laurie Swanson | Aug 22, 2022 | Career Blog
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1661365352281{padding-bottom: 35px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]I had my recruiting client call me after the interview and the first thing they said was, “I think I blew it. I was nervous for some reason. I felt like I...