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The Most Powerfull Word In Career Management: ask!
We have all gotten a little spoiled with the advent of AI. We have a question, and we rapidly fire up our favorite AI platform. And there are a ton of them, from my favorite, OpenAI, to Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic, Claude, Meta AI, and seemingly hundreds of others. And the results are truly…
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Can You Execute a Professional Job Search? Probably Not!
Can You Execute a Professional Job Search? Probably Not! Why would I say something like that? Experience. I spent my working life hiring, training, mentoring, and growing people. In 2008, during the Great Recession, I constructed and executed a series of unemployment seminars. I expected to help a handful of people in my surrounding area.…
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Career Management lessons from my Grandmother
Once, when I was very young, a group of adults was talking. I decided to join in. My grandmother looked at me with a very serious face, and she said the following: “Billy, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and to be thought stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.“ It was…
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“Help! I’ve been Laid Off”
Several months ago, I got a text from an old friend. She had been a manager with a very prominent high-tech company for 30 years and had just been laid off. She wanted to go back to work and was asking me for my thoughts. This happens to me a lot, and I responded in…