'success' tagged blog posts in SixFigureStart Career Coaching by Fortune 500 Recruiters

As a former recruiter and now career coach, I’m hearing a lot of anxiety from job seekers about how to get noticed in THIS market — job search strategies that worked in the past may not work anymore; high unemployment means recruiters are inundated by resumes making it impossible to break through; employers have unreasonably high expectations of candidates. I canvassed recruiters who hire for diverse industries and roles about what...

This career coaching post originally appears in my Work In Progress blog for Forbes.com:

Julia Goldin is global chief marketing officer and EVP at Revlon, Inc, where she oversees all marketing activities and product innovation. Goldin has over 20 years of experience in consumer packaged goods, including senior executive positions over 13 years at The Coca-Cola Company. A native Russian, Goldin has lived and worked in Russia, the United...

For my latest Work In Progress post for Forbes.com, I share 10 career and life areas where we can be more thoughtful, deliberate and proactive in the new year:

Another year has gone by. What are the highlights of last year? What did you intend to do but didn’t finish (or start)? Take an audit of what has already happened, so you can repeat what works and refine what didn’t. Regardless of...

The first quarter of the year is typically a busy time for filling jobs. Companies with a calendar year budget have money to spend. The new year brings on new projects for which new staff is needed. Here are things to do NOW to maximize your job search chances in 2013:

• First, think.

Confirm your target industry and the job function...

Don’t just stay where you are because you forgot to get out – Peter Pace, retired Marine Corps general and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

The above quote is a paraphrase of one of the many poignant points I heard in a recent lecture at Fordham Graduate School of Business. You can read a longer summary of the General Peter Pace lecture HERE.

It was an amazing lecture that...

My latest career coaching blog post for Work Reimagined focuses on career change strategies, specifically 3 things to avoid and 3 steps to take:

With careers spanning 30, 40, and 50 years, more people than ever are changing careers, so you’d think that employers would be used to hiring career changers. With all the emphasis on innovation, you’d think that employers would welcome the outside perspective that career changers bring....

Earlier this month, I posted career advice for about the military to civilian transition. This time, I cover career advice from a military leader that translates to the civilian space:

On November 14, 2012, Fordham Graduate School of Business hosted a lecture by General Peter Pace, retired Marine Corps General and 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the G.W. Bush Administration. It was an enthralling 90 minutes,...

I’m so excited about the Thanksgiving long weekend. We celebrated the traditional heavy meal with family last weekend due to preferred scheduling with the in-laws. So this means we can actually use this long weekend to refresh! We are taking a road trip to Montreal, and I’m psyched to have an extended period to rest, renew, and get excited about my business again when I come back.

Let’s face it. Sometimes the...

In my 15+ years of recruiting, I’ve interviewed many candidates with military experience – career and reservists, combat and administrative duty, long stints spanning decades and shorter stints less than two years. I’ve always been impressed by the discipline, early opportunities to take management and leadership roles, and diversity of activity and skills, and I know other employers feel likewise. However, even though the military experience impresses in general, you still...

I recently read The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time by Verne Harnish and the Editors of Fortune Magazine, an entertaining read of 18 stories (1 per chapter) of how an unexpected decision or innovation positively impacted a big company. If you love business books, the appeal is clear. But even for your own personal improvement, there are key lessons to be gleaned from what these companies did, and it...