Do you feel like you’ve been on the Job Hunt forever? If so read on

A client showed me an article he had written about fitness conditioning. He referred to Russian strength expert Pavel Tsatsouline, who used five principles to train the American military's special forces. At first blush, they relate directly to a successful job search:

1. Focused

Applying for jobs haphazardly, without a goal and without targeted employers or companies automatically weakens your job se

As a career coach and former High Tech manager, I’ve noticed that most people wind up in careers that are completely out of line with their college degrees or interests. When you ask people how they “chose” their careers, many of them answer with something very much like a track through the jungle

During skydiving lessons, one student asked: "If our parachute doesn't open... and the reserve doesn't open, how long do we have till we hit the ground?"
The jump master looked at him and in perfect deadpan answered: "The rest of your life."

For those of us who don't regularly skydive, our "parachute" is a figurative one - our backup plan; our escape route. And it pays to check, double-check, and even triple-check our parachute. That is, if we even have one

My husband and I currently both work outside of our home and our kids either go to school and daycare full-time or full-day camps in the summers. Our evenings are filled with sports and music practices for the kids, church activities and general housekeeping. We (like many other families) are so occupied with the busy-ness of life, that when weekends come, we are all ready to just veg-out.