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How to Get Unstuck - 5 Steps
5 steps to breaking through the wall
How often do you have a project / task to do, but find yourself in neutral, with your wheels spinning? Staring at your computer screen, messing around with email, flitting from one piece of paper to another, and getting more and more frustrated because you have an objective, a deadline, and you are getting further and further behind?
It happens to me, but not as often as it used to.
There are different forms of being stuck and in an upcoming article, I write abo…
First job offer not your first choice?
When you're unemployed, unhappily employed or eager to change careers, jumping at the first offer you get -- even if it isn't quite what you want -- can be tempting. So should you?
While an offer can give you a sense of security, that feeling can quickly vanish if the position just isn't right for …
Analyze Your Career with a Personal SWOT
Want a fresh way to size up the state of your career? How about taking a page from the business-school playbook and running a SWOT analysis? SWOT, which stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, is a simple yet powerful model MBA students use to analyze the strategic positions of companies, products or business situations. But you don't need to be an MBA to apply the SWOT technique to your own career planning.
Take a look at my most recent Monster article: Analyze Your Career …
Your Physical Work Environment
Restructuring your work space
Questions for you: Where do you do your best work? Are there places where you do a certain kind of work better? What is the right space for you for a certain kind of work activity?
Me: I need to have multiple work environments for my best productivity. For example, I do my best writing either sitting outside on the deck (as I am now), in my living room, or, believe it or not, in a cafe. There is something about the ambient noise that allows me to write creatively.
Howe…
Make the most of key career moments
When you get right down to it, your career is shaped largely by just a few key decisions, conversations and actions. I call these "key career moments."
Take a look at my full Monster article - Make the Most of Key Career Moments to learn more.
My Mom said get your foot in the door...
You know, there isn’t a lot of room these days for the old-fashioned door-knocking job search and sales method. Or is there?
I have a client who, in his past, won his 2 jobs simply by showing up at reception and asking to speak to someone. They didn’t offer him a job then and there, obviously, but he got his foot in the door.
Currently (as I write this), he is interviewing at a company with the perfect job for him - simply because he did a bit of homework, and showed up at their office. He …