Posts Tagged Barbara Wulf MS
Best Effort Essential for the Job Interview
You have an interview scheduled. Great! Now it’s show time. You looked good on paper and now the employer wants to meet you in-person or perhaps with a phone interview. Interviewing will determine if you are the right person for the job. Like trying on a new pair of shoes at the store, the word [...]
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Up in the Air
You never know whom you will meet when you are flying. You can learn a lot from a stranger, if you are open to having a conversation and enjoy the art of listening. Case in point, on a recent flight, I found myself sitting next to a man who was returning from Florida to Michigan. [...]
Read moreReCareer in the Second-half of Life
Ah, Spring! Time for renewal, regrowth, ReCareer. ReCareer? What’s that about? ReCareering is about finding authentic work in the second half of life. I decided to learn more about the process of recareering recently with Richard P. Johnson PhD, author of ReCareer, Finding Your Authentic Work. We are still finding ourselves in the aftershock of [...]
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Go Green With Your Career Search
In April 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin launched Earth Day. It evolved after seven years of observation, discussion and planning to bring the environment into the “limelight.” Today, I’m buying bottled water and see our air, ground water, soil, oceans and glaciers under siege. As we hear more about Going Green to save the [...]
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Life is Like Mahjongg
I have read all of Amy Tan’s books starting with the Joy Luck Club, Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and more. Each book carries the reader to the Far East and often, the author mentions people playing the game of Mahjongg, an ancient Chinese game of skill, strategy, and calculation with a certain [...]
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The Perspective of Dawn
In the book, Dawn Light, Diane Ackerman states, “whatever else it is, dawn is a rebirth, a fresh start, even if familiar routines and worries charge in clamoring for attention.” I have been reading her book to gain appreciation for dawn, sunrise, a new beginning. Lets face it, after a year with a recession, a [...]
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New Year Still Is A Time Of Uncertainty For Economy
It’s a new year. It’s a new decade, yet job seekers must continue to vigilant and persevere in an economy that has a slow recovery. The holidays are over. It is a new month, a new year and a new decade. January provides us with a clean slate and a fresh start. There is a [...]
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