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Taking Charge of Your Career: a book review
In Taking Charge of Your Career by Leigh Bailey, the author outlines tips for making your current job more satisfying and setting future career goals. Taking Charge of Your Career is a workbook that...
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Twelve questions to take into 2014
What’s so good about you? Recently, I searched through my library for tips on creating the perfect “elevator speech.” An elevator speech is a brief delivery of memorable facts about yourself....
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Phasing Out: the new way to retire
As an HR business partner, I have noticed how many employees were opting to gradually move toward retirement rather than immediate retirement. Over the years, I have seen many of my peers experience...
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Skills for your future: What every employer wants you to have
In her book, HER Corner Office: A guide to help women find a place and a voice in corporate America, author Trudy Bourgeois offers time-tested career development advice to women at any stage in their...
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Your work self: values at work
Introducing a new column from a longtime MSR contributor Now that you have started the journey toward self-sufficiency, you need to identify your values at work. Values are conditions and...
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Job renewal could be easier than you think
Years ago, I heard about a way to reinvent your job and improve job satisfaction without quitting to find a new one. The method is called “job novation.” Job novation is based on the legal term...
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Motivate yourself to achieve in the workplace
Years ago, I took a course on how to develop supervision skills in new managers. During one lecture, the professor stated that employees are not motivated by money. This philosophy was foreign to me,...
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Overcoming barriers to employment
Over the last several decades, the number of Minnesotans throughout the state with some type of a criminal record has increased to an estimated one million, or one in five. Some estimates put it even...
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Overcoming barriers to employment: the four types of jobs
Second of a three-part column Traditional career paths are made up of four types of jobs. Each plays a different role in moving you from where you are today to your ideal job. Let’s review how these...
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How to negotiate in the workplace
Once you have been offered a job, its time to think about what you need and how to get it. Oftentimes, job candidates believe that they have to take the offer that is set before them or else risk...
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Diversify your job search
Let’s begin by examining our job-searching mindset. Successful job seekers think one way, unsuccessful ones think another. What is the difference? In today’s marketplace, it is no longer enough to...
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Strategies for developing leaders of color in the workplace
Recently, I participated in a discussion on how to develop leaders of color in today’s workplace environment. While times have certainly changed, there are some strategies and tips that have been...
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