Everyone wants job offers but sometimes you get an offer for a position you’re on the fence about. What do you do? This is the situation for one of my LYJ Search students. I found the following passages useful to consider if you find yourself in this fortunate position.
From the book: Interviewing and Salary Negotiation
LYJ is excited to have 3 events coming up in October and November. Thanks for letting your networks know about these opportunities:
1. Our very first workshop for women attorneys contemplating a change. This one-day workshop on October 25th will be co-led by former attorney and now legal recruiter Jennifer Bird and career coach Suzanne Grossman.
I showed an episode of Roadtrip Nation this week to undergraduates in my career development class including one of my favorites, the interview with Warren Brown, founder of CakeLove bakery in Washington, DC. I first heard about him in Po Bronson’s book, What Should I Do With My Life? Brown was a dissatisfied public interest
My good friend Dori Saltzman, a writer and editor, interviewed me about my LYJ Search classes for her blog:
http://ginksthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/interview-with-founder-of-love-your-job.html
Thanks Dori!
Here’s what I read this week that made me think about career choices and finding work you love:
Great interview in the Sunday New York Times Magazine with director Spike Jonze. I liked how he used all of his quirky interests such as skateboarding to create a career path that brings together all sides of himself, including
As most tennis fans know, top seed Roger Federer defeated Tommy Robredo in the fourth round of the U.S. open today to advance to the quarterfinals and move one step closer to a potential sixth consecutive U.S. Open title.
In the post game interview, Federer was asked how he advanced past Robredo, who had
I am a big fan of Joanna Lindenbaum, owner of Soulful Coaching for Busy Women, who is leading this free teleclass on Wednesday. Details below:
Your Soulful Coaching Call to Action!
If you are ready to take your projects and your life to the next level, join me for my complimentary teleclass, The 6 Secrets to Completing
Over the weekend, I saw the new movie featuring Alexis Bledel, Post Grad, which chronicles a recent college graduate’s attempts to find a meaningful job after falling short of her lifelong dream of working at a publishing house. It’s sort of like watching what would happen to Rory Gilmore if she decided to pursue publishing
This is a blog post I wished I had written so I am re-posting. It speaks to what I see as one of the biggest challenges of jobseeking right now: staying positive. This is a guest post from Lindsey Pollak’s Career Blog which I subscribe to and highly recommend.
This guest post is by Sandra Naiman, author of The
my hands-down all time favorite book for all things networking: Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-How for Cash, Clients and Career Success by Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon
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