Transforming Lives!!
Posted in career growth, Career Repositioning, Career Tips, Interview Skills, Job Search, leadership, Life & Living, Mentoring on Feb 5th, 2012
Because I specialize in client re-invention (I have done it four times myself) many clients come to me when they want to make a career change. A typical career change may involve a client moving from a consulting role to a corporate role (sounds easy, but it is NOT); someone moving from a product [...]
Posted in career growth, Career Repositioning, Career Tips, Interview Skills, Job Search, leadership, Life & Living, Mentoring, Office Behaviour on Jan 29th, 2012
In my practice I often have clients, who come to me wondering why, despite their great work and contributions, they have not received the recognition they deserve. When I probe and ask them about how they were able to champion an idea to make a change in their workplace that made a significant impact, they [...]
Posted in career growth, Career Repositioning, Career Tips, Enterpreneurship, Job Search, leadership, Life & Living, Mentoring, Office Behaviour on Jan 22nd, 2012
When clients come to me for help they are often looking for ways to advance their careers and to grow. Yet, when I look at their work and how they are engaged in it, I often find that they have slipped into a zone of comfort, and are not really pushing to grow. When [...]
Posted in career growth, Career Repositioning, Career Tips, Interview Skills, Job Search, leadership, Life & Living, Mentoring, Office Behaviour on Jan 14th, 2012
It is normal for us to display the state of our being in how we project ourselves and how others see us. So, when we’re happy we look happy and others who look at us witness our happiness. The same thing happens to many when they are out of work and are looking for a [...]
Posted in career growth, Career Tips, Interview Skills, Job Search, leadership, Life & Living, Mentoring, Office Behaviour on Jan 7th, 2012
Many of my clients are individual contributors vying to become managers. Others are already managers and are dreaming about executive positions. In such cases one of the recurring themes that comes up is the demonstration of their “soft skills.” There is such misapprehension around this phrase that I decided to devote an entire blog [...]
Posted in career growth, Career Repositioning, Career Tips, Job Search, leadership, Life & Living on Jan 1st, 2012
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”—Charles Du Bos, French critic and essayist (1882–1939) Happy New Year! As we embark on this New Year, I thought to use this space for some guidance to those who are still in the [...]
Posted in career growth, Career Repositioning, Career Tips, Interview Skills, Job Search, leadership, Life & Living, Mentoring, Office Behaviour on Dec 24th, 2011
In a keynote, Seth Godin, a well-known marketing and leadership consultant spoke (watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgKAuz_wsgA) about how we should put art in any job that we do. By art he meant an ability to have freedom to contribute something inspired, stemming from the creativity that freedom allows in a job. What a great idea! On [...]
Posted in career growth, Career Repositioning, Career Tips, Interview Skills, Job Search, leadership, Life & Living, Mentoring, Office Behaviour on Dec 17th, 2011
A segment of my client pool is always after new jobs. Some land laterally because they want a change, others get a promotion, yet others want to go into a new area, and do not much care how that looks on their résumé. In any case when they land a new job I often get [...]
Posted in career growth, Career Repositioning, Career Tips, Enterpreneurship, Interview Skills, Job Search, leadership, Life & Living, Mentoring on Dec 3rd, 2011
I’ve been a career and life coach for 10 years now. During this, my fifth career, I have worked with over 5,000 clients globally, and have come to realize that there is a life cycle to a professional’s career. These days a person can experience multiple careers during their working life, quite different from those [...]
Posted in career growth, Career Tips, Enterpreneurship, Interview Skills, Job Search, Life & Living, Mentoring on Nov 27th, 2011
When clients get a call for a job interview I strongly suggest that they work with me for practicing their interviewing skills. There is so much riding on how well you do in an interview that most underestimate its real importance. They also think that merely working hard on giving the right answers, especially in [...]
Dilip Saraf
Transforming Lives!!
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