We recently published a blog post about “3 Simple Steps for Growing and Maximizing Your Career.” To recap, those steps were as follows: Plot a path for reaching your destination. Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize. Be proactive about your plan and priorities. While these steps are more general in nature, we also have some simple steps for [...]
The employment marketplace is hot for candidates right now. There is no question about that. As a result, job seekers and candidates have more leverage, not just with potential employers, but also with their current employer. That’s exactly why some companies present a counteroffer to employees who give notice because they’ve accepted a job offer [...]
Feedback can be a fickle thing, depending upon who you are. Some people welcome feedback, no matter how much it sounds like outright criticism, while other people don’t like any form of feedback that does not paint them or their performance in glowing terms. The latter approach is not a helpful one in terms of [...]
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 [...]