Career Counselor & Business Consultant
Finding work today calls for more than the job-search practices universally advocated. I help clients bring their skills up to date and gain the confidence to compete effectively and find rewarding work.
Services
I have been helping professionals, business owners, and people-in-transition achieve their full potential for over 25 years.
Book
Ground of Your Own Choosing is a guide to a new work security not dependent on a job, but on your own capacity to generate work.
Newsletter
An email newsletter and blog dedicated to helping helping people survive and even thrive in the ever-changing world of work.
News & Upcoming Events
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Praise for the Prioritizing Grid
I recently received the following very enthusiastic message from a user of our online Prioritizing Grid. It makes me feel good that it has been helpful to so many.Wow! Wow! Wow! I cannot believe I ran into this! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I read this many years ago in one of the Parachute books, but believe or not, have never put it into practice. Now I find myself overwhelmed by my to-do list, and kept thinking there must be a better way. So I did a Google search and found you. Wow! How did you guys create this automated version? I plan to use it all the time, and look forward to learning more about your organization.
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Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce Business Book Club
The next meeting of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce Book Club will be at 5 PM on May 29, 2012 in the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce conference room, where we will discuss:
The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha.
This is a blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley’s most innovative entrepreneurs.
The career escalator is jammed at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The employer-employee pact is over and traditional job security is a thing of the past.
Here, LinkedIn co-founder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today’s competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you.
Why? Start-ups—and the entrepreneurs who run them—are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage.
These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today.
Latest Newsletter Post
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Respect Yourself
It was the beginning of rush hour, and the Green Line train was almost full, forcing us to stand. As soon as we boarded I grabbed the bar on the back of the seat nearest me and adjusted my stance to absorb the jerk which I knew would follow as soon as we started.
I noticed a man sitting in the aisle seat a few rows back, and two things about him immediately grabbed my attention. One, he was sitting with his back ramrod straight, and two, he was ex-military, wearing a black corduroy baseball cap embroidered in red and yellow letters that said “Marine Veteran” and a badge that read “Vietnam Veteran” above the pocket of his denim jacket.
His self-assurance was fascinating, yet I also found his eyes-front posture intimidating because of the oversize aviator sunglasses that hid half of his handsome face, making it impossible to read his expression. I aimed my gaze over his head and out the window and wondered what he’d experienced in that war that was more humiliating to those who fought in it than any other in America’s history, and how it had shaped him.