We’ve addressed the topic of personal branding before in The Doepker Group blog. To recap, the way in which you brand yourself depends upon the experience that you provide to people when you interact with them. More specifically, personal branding centers upon the experience that people feel they’ve had with you. That’s because you might [...]
Most professionals in the employment marketplace crave career growth and satisfaction. However, it’s all too easy to fall into a rut, one in which you’re focused so much on your current employment situation that you find it difficult to devote time to your career overall. Then, when you realize you’re in a rut, you find [...]
Believe it or not, there is less of a stigma attached to job hopping these days. One of the reasons is that people are simply changing jobs more frequently. This is especially the case with younger professionals, namely those who are members of the Millennial Generation. You would think that under these circumstances, people would [...]
During the course of your career, you’re not going to land every job for which you apply. (Unless, of course, you’re one of those “one in a million” type of candidates. If you are, then you just might.) As a result, disappointment is inevitable during your career. So it’s not a matter of IF you’re [...]
In our past few blog posts, we’ve addressed the top work habits of valuable employees and the work habits of non-valuable employees. These habits could determine whether or not you get hired . . . or whether or not you get fired. But what about your career overall? Which patterns of behavior could ultimately hurt [...]
There is a misnomer in the employment marketplace. (Actually, there’s more than one, but we’re going to focus on just one in the interest of this particular blog post.) That misnomer is this: you have to be looking for a job in order to consider a new job. That’s simply not true. What IS true [...]
It doesn’t matter if you’re not looking for a new job right now. It doesn’t matter if you like your current job and you like your employer. There are still benefits associated with having a conversation with a recruiter. As we explored in our previous blog post, talking with a recruiter does NOT mean that [...]
Professionals often get confused about recruiters, especially when a recruiter reaches out to them. This confusion is further exacerbated when a recruiter has never reached out to them before. Typically, they don’t know what to do. They don’t know what to say. Because of this, they sometimes do and say the wrong things. They think [...]
Welcome to the next blog post in our series about things that a professional in the Engineering or Information Technology fields can do to limit their career opportunities. We started the series with a post about why not being willing to relocate can hamper your career growth and potential. The next post in the series [...]
Welcome to the next blog post in our series about things that a professional in the Engineering or Information Technology fields can do to limit their career opportunities. We started the series with a post about why not being willing to relocate can hamper your career growth and potential. In this blog post, we’re going [...]