by Laurie Swanson | Oct 18, 2021 | Career Blog
I was talking with a client, and she asked me 2 important questions about change. The Backstory: Her daughter is in a job she doesn’t love, getting paid less than market value and people are leaving right and left due to the toxic work environment. She wants to find a...
by Laurie Swanson | Oct 11, 2021 | Career Blog
Imagine being on the IT team and completing the well-planned changes to your routers and discovering that website traffic was no longer being properly directed…for your 3.5 billion Facebook users! Now that’s an epic fail! In comparison, discovering there is a typo on...
by Laurie Swanson | Oct 4, 2021 | Career Blog
A job search has many moving parts. It makes sense that you might feel overwhelmed. It also makes sense that you’d feel anxious or even scared. Your mind likes to get involved. It hates change and change brings up fear. You mind will tell you that a job search is...
by Laurie Swanson | Sep 27, 2021 | Career Blog
I woke up at 4:30 am and could not get back to sleep. Today was the day I was going to renegotiate my contract with a long-time client. I had done my market research. The gap between what the market was paying and what we were receiving was significant. I compiled my...
by Laurie Swanson | Sep 20, 2021 | Career Blog
I was just going through some stuff on my desk and found an envelope. Across the front it said. “Laurie’s Top 100 2021”. It was a list of 100 dreams I have for my life. I have a vague memory of writing these down. Who knows, I may have even blogged about this? I...
by Laurie Swanson | Sep 13, 2021 | Career Blog
On the prep call for tomorrow’s Unstoppable Series – Creating Career Success on Your Terms (COME JOIN US) – one of the guests, Kristen, was talking about what prompted her to leave her successful 15-year career in the healthcare field to open up her...
