by Laurie Swanson | Oct 3, 2022 | Career Blog
I’m on a bit of a mission. How to create alternative lines of revenue. Both for myself and my clients. As I am getting further along in my career, I am feeling a downshift. I am feeling the pull to do more of what I love and less of what I have to do. I am calling...
by Laurie Swanson | Sep 26, 2022 | Career Blog
This week, I was talking with a woman who thought she had screwed up her interview. When we dissected it, she knew that the prep she had done for the interview was on point. The hiring manager, for whatever reason, asked her questions, not in line with the job...
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...
