As a certified Five O'Clock Club career and executive coach and seminar leader, Robert Hellmann builds on techniques and approaches that have been continuously refined by the Club over decades to get results for clients in the shortest possible time.  Services include:

• Career coaching for individuals, including
   Career Change, the Job Search, and On-the-job Success

• Training and Organizational Development Consulting for
   Higher Education, Corporations, and Non-Profits

Rob's insights and commentary have appeared in media outlets such as Forbes (here, here and here), the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the New Jersey Star Ledger, AM New York, Glassdoor.com, CNNMoney, CNBC.com, ABC News, WPIX News, and NBC News. For more information, please browse this site or contact Rob.

Improve Productivity with Effective Contact Management

Having an effective contact management system can save you a lot of time and missed opportunities, whether you are in business for yourself, in a job search, or on the job.  It’s just too easy to let your inbox grow to unmanageable proportions, miss an important follow-up, waste time with things like “filing” or looking for that one email, or lose touch with potential clients.  The key to solving all these problems and more, for me and for my clients, is to have a desktop-based or cloud-based system where all communication elements for a contact are associated with the contact, together in one place.  These elements include Read more…

LinkedIn’s VERY Useful New Skills Section

I’ve been sharing LinkedIn’s new Skills section with clients; they’ve found it very helpful for a range of activities including composing a resume or LinkedIn profile, evaluating a career change, deciding on companies to target, identifying contacts for meetings, and staying current in their present job. Once you input a skill you possess or want to learn more about, you get a “skills analysis” that shows you: Read more …

10 Ways to Take Control of Your Job Search

Some clients who first come to me for help after a long and frustrating search attribute their difficulties to something they can’t control, such as age, experience (i.e. over- or under-qualified), weight, ethnic background, gender or, less often, some other physical feature. Yes, these biases do surface at times in the job search. But, once these clients start describing their search in more detail, nine times out of ten, I see that the problem is actually in their job-search strategy or execution!

So, if you have that “out of control” feeling, here’s a checklist of 10 things to make sure you are doing, to help you get back into the driver’s seat and on the road to the job you want. (read more)

Employment Data Shows Pockets of Opportunity

The latest BLS report showed the unemployment rate stuck at a dismal 9.1%. BUT, more positive news for many jobseekers can be found within the data. In particular, the unemployment rate for those with a bachelors degree or higher remained much lower than the overall rate, at 4.3%, Read more …

Performance Reviews, Part 1: What Managers Should Know

Performance reviews are widely used in organizations, yet are implemented inconsistently and are often controversial: Do they work? What’s the best way to implement them? Don’t unfair grudges or favoritism, or other forms of bias, fatally compromise them? I’ll begin to share with you a few thoughts on each of these questions Read more …

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