Make the Right Career Move teaches the skills, tools, and branding to make all the right career moves, whether your focus is finding a new job, moving up to a better job, or making your current job better. It makes job search and self-promotion smarter, helping readers land their dream job and realize the benefits of a better job faster. It's a career guide that belongs in the hand of every executive, attorney or professional - or any ambitious job-seeker, from new graduates to senior executives.

This article outlines a four-step fask-track curriculum to help busy executives and aspiring executives find and do work they love: defining personal career satisfaction, developing a career plan with simple, measurable steps to guide progress; write an accomplishment-based resume that markets your candidacy powerfully; and define your competitive advantages to market yourself with the greatest impact to particular jobs and employers.

This short articles outlines four criteria essential to determining coachability, and ultimately the success of any executive coaching project: acknowledging personal responsibility for a behavior or area of improvement; openness to feedback; public commitment to change; and willingness to make the development effort a priority.

This article examines the importance of emotional intelligence in building a successful career, along with specific tips for building your own EQ. Tips include remembering the importance of reciprocity in building and sustaining your network; looking to your network for new jobs and opportunities; using your online network to streamline and update your network and your networking; and scheduling regular snatches of time for interpersonal skill-building.

How to get your career off to the right start? The best path to long-term career success as well as shorter-term success in a first job is to establish good career habits, from assuming responsibility for your own career development to putting together and implementing a simple career plan, developing your "brand", tracking your accomplishments, and learning to communicate professionally.

[or Dream Job the Second Time Around (I'm waiting to see if the latter gets published on Law Crossing because I'd prefer to use it but for now let's use the other & maybe I'll add to or replace it) Gender differences in communication style, and specifically women's less assertive communication style, can interfere with their career and business development success, as this article and specific real life examples illustrate.

This article shares a career consultant's eight tips that she wished she'd known at the start of her career to increase career satisfaction and success. These tips include everything from figuring our the kind of work that inspires you to soliciting tough and constructive performance feedback to provide continuous performance feedback and developing the career management and self-promotional tools (especially, a career plan, a resume, and competitive advantages) to help you find and do work you love from the outset of your career.