Benefit from Rob’s broad and deep career and organizational consulting experience, and get results in the shortest possible time! Services include:
- For individuals: Career change, the a-to-z job search, executive coaching, presentations, pitches
- For organizations: Workshops on Presentation and Pitch skills, Advanced LinkedIn for Business, Hiring and Recruiting
Coaching Testimonials
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Seminar Testimonials
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Listen Up! Resolve a Work Conflict with This Technique
A work relationship can suffer greatly from poor communication, perhaps a result of clashing communication styles, faulty assumptions, or overly quick reactions to perceived slights. One effective way to improve communication and heal an ailing work relationship is to combine two proven approaches: “active listening” and “reflective listening;” let’s call this combined approach active/reflective listening. The key elements include: More
Looking for a Job? Don’t Tell LinkedIn
While having a resume means you’re looking for a job, having a LinkedIn profile doesn’t send the same signal. As a result, many jobseekers think their profile needs to say that they are actively searching. Otherwise, how else would an employer know to contact them? So they’ll add phrases like “open to new opportunities” or “seeking a position in…”
As I discuss in my book Advanced LinkedIn, however, you’re making a mistake if you add anything to your profile that indicates you’re looking. Here’s why. More
Graduating? Do these 4 Things to Ensure Career Success
Before you leave campus, you have a unique opportunity to take advantage of face-to-face interactions and your “student” status to set yourself up for career success. Graduates who implement these four ideas have faster job searches and easier career transitions down the road. More
Don’t Reject Yourself in a Job Search
If you want to speed up your job search, adopt the mindset of a successful salesperson. Sales professionals know a few things about rejection that can help jobseekers. They know you shouldn’t assume rejection if you haven’t heard back from a prospect. They know that it’s often possible to overcome an apparent rejection or hesitations about the services you are offering. And they know how to skillfully keep in touch when there’s no interest now.
Many of my new job search clients, however, are too quick to see rejection and give up. They More
How to get an Interview with a Phone Call
Once your resume and LinkedIn profile are complete, you’re ready to start getting interviews. And the most effective way to get interviews is to actively go for what you want; send high-impact emails to hiring managers who may be complete strangers, and then crucially follow up with a phone call to land that interview. This “active approach” is more effective than passively waiting for the ad to show up or the recruiter to call, and then responding.
Salespeople intuitively understand the active approach to the job search, since they use a similar approach every day in their sales jobs. If you are in a job search, you are effectively in sales whether More
Publications
Turn Job Search Rejection into Opportunity
That’s because in a job search, your “job” is now sales (you’re the product), regardless of what you do professionally. More