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...but are all your wonderful execuses taking you where you want to go?  We all make excuses and procrastinate, but especially when it comes to the BIG things, like our careers, excuses don't serve us in any good way. 

I've come across this with just about everyone; a recent example is classic.  Someone with about 20-25 years of working life left potentially; has been working, happily, in a specific professional for seven years.  However, he is "searching" for a career and…

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There are so many unknowns in a job search that it's not worth naming even some of them. Yes, be ware of pitfalls in your preparation, but make that your focus? NO WAY. There's a not so secret to success...focus on what you DO know. Some of the best job searches you'll ever have maybe be the ones that have unexpected good endings, well, actually beginnings, but I would argue that success comes from preparation and focus on your goal. The one thing that you can always be sure of is...drum… Continue

...whether these tools would work for you or not, and what your expectations of them are.

These two tools are mainly used with people you know. They work in certain types of cases and with certain types of people more than others. We can debate, which one is better, but the bottom line is that you want them to work if you're looking for a job - right? And if you do want them (either of them) to be worth your time and effort, look at HOW these tools work, WHEN they work, and…

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A colleague was working with a client who had training opportunities for over 20 years, all paid for, but the client never used them. The client was downsized and with it went those paid for professional development opportunties. The client lamented about it. But they weren't willing to spend personal money for training while unemployed. They had learned their lesson, but would wait until they had a new job and hopefully have paid for training, and promised themselves that they would use the…

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Hopefully I got your attention with the title. Is there really opportunity to do what you want when the job market is so unpredictable and so tight?

Whether it's crazy or not is unimportant. The point is that creating the job you want in a down job market IS possible, or at least for those that want it to be.

And what I mean by create your own job isn't necessarily entrepreneurial. It can be. But it can also be a job that you have, but you switch it up so that…

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