Networking / Work Transition

Build Your Network

Why Women are Better NetWeavers than Men

Find ways to develop a reputation as a 'go to' person

How they can (and should) exploit this advantage

What is NetWeaving and how does it differ from traditional Networking?

NetWeaving is, in many ways, an altruistic spinoff form of networking.  It follows the Golden Rule of “What goes around will come back around.” In the long run, the benefits and outcomes from NetWeaving will almost always exceed those of the more traditional “What’s in it for me?” (WIIFMe)...

Job Search

Top Ten Pitfalls to Avoid in Your Job Search

Top Ten Pitfalls to Avoid in Your Job Search

What Not to Do

by Pam Williams

I came up with my "gut level" top 10 reasons as to why people have a hard time finding a job. With as many people as I've worked with, my gut-level, practical, day-to-day real point of view, is probably pretty accurate as to why people have trouble finding jobs. The academic in me required that I research the topic. I researched...

Strategic Planning Tool

Strategic Planning: Find More Opportunity

Assess your business in the marketplace

The SWOT Analysis

A well established best practice in business planning is the SWOT analysis.  It stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and is a relatively quick and fairly informative way to assess your business in the marketplace. 

Each industry will have its own unique factors, yet the...

Professional Advice

What An Exit Strategy Isn't

Have a long term plan that sets the course for your career

by Dr. Elaine Eisenman, Nancy Widmann and Amy Kopelan

Let’s get this out of the way right now. A severance package is not an exit strategy. A severance package, which is basically the terms of disengagement, may be the culmination of an effective exit strategy, but that will be determined only after the rest of your strategy is firmly in place. In addition, an exit strategy is not just a plan to leave your current company, and it doesn’t have to be a terminal farewell.

So what is it? An exit strategy is simply a long-term plan that sets a course for your career. It answers the question, “what’s...