The Career RelaunchBlog

One of the most important components of career management is building and maintaining your network.  Especially during times of transition, I’ve found my professional network to be invaluable in terms of generating job leads, securing speaking opportunities, and coordinating useful partnerships.  Anyone who has attended any of my career transition talks has heard me say […]

A couple weeks ago, I gave a TEDx talk (video post pending) about how to reshape the story of your career. One of the topics I touched on in my talk was about the tendency for people to resist change.  I talked about how this dynamic exists not only in our careers, but also when […]

Many of my career transition clients ask me about how best to leverage LinkedIn, especially when you’re proactively looking for a new opportunity.  I seek LinkedIn as being the most important professional social media network that you absolutely must be on if you’re someone who cares about maintaining a strong professional profile and network.  This […]

When I decided to leave my full-time job to run my own, independent career consultancy last year, it marked the end of my 10-year run in the corporate world.  I went from working within for-profit companies in fast-paced, dynamic, organisationally complex business environments to a 1-man operation building my own business one small step at […]

A couple weeks ago, I was at a business school here in the UK coaching an MBA student on the topic of preparing for a brand case interview, and she asked, “What’s a great ad that you’ve seen lately?”  I found myself struggling to come up with an answer because to be honest, very few […]