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My client was in a tough position, and she needed to make a bet.  As a career coach, I had a dilemma. We chose the conservative approach, and she is back to Wall Street!   In the Past ... Pushing the envelope on your resume was okay since the usual procedure was:...

Career Coach Weekly Wisdom: Culture  How do you go from running your own company (and determining your culture) to pivoting back into the corporate world? The potential employer's cultural fit is so important -- how do you make it work? In a job search, people are...

Has it been a hard day's night? I'm introducing a new series of blogs where I take words of wisdom from famous rock bands and channel them to the career/job search process.  Since this career coach has always loved rock from the 1960s through the 1990s, let's let the...

Summary Everyone wants to be found by recruiters on LinkedIn. Many of us have found prior positions with recruiters. 90% of all companies and almost all 3rd party Recruiters search LinkedIn for keywords appropriate for the job or industry when searching candidates. So...

Another former Wall Street client lands a Google career in the Cloud Division. My client was at a consulting company that did not value her digital transformation skills, artificial intelligence, and machine learning background.  The politics were horrible.  She felt...

I was honored to be part of the 3-member team representing the Columbia Career Coaches Network (network of coaches recommended to alumni by Columbia University for job seekers) in volunteering at the recent “iRelaunch Return to Work Conference” on October 2. The job...

You need to get out of your comfort zone if you want a new job. Many of my clients have feelings of being stuck. I admit I’m stuck in my comfort zone as a career coach since I only blog on LinkedIn and FB. I need to move to...

“It must be my resume.” This is the universal answer I hear when my clients get stuck in the job search process. While your resume is really important, it represents only about 10% of the reason you're stuck. Job search is easy to understand on a conceptual level, but...

Update as of 9-17-2020 to the original post as of 8-31-2020. Do You Take an Online Job When the HQ Location is Not Acceptable? As more and more Wall Street companies put pressure on employees to return to the office, I see a split with Tech. Wall Street will force...