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2. CareerTips
3. CareerNews
4. CareerResources
5. CareerThoughts
6. CareerCalendar
7. CareerHumor

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Darrell W. Gurney, Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC), Certified Job & Career Transition Coach (JCTC), Licensed Spiritual Counselor (RScP)
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O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
--William Shakespeare
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Our advice nuggets from earlier issues continue to receive favorable responses, so we include another here.

We answer as many questions as possible but, if it's really important, remember our career coaching services.

QUESTION:
Jim wrote:
How does a reporter who is at near the top of the heap -- and has been for more than a decade, but not ready to quit -- step back?

By age, I'm ready for retirement. But I still enjoy the newsroom. And my father and both grandfathers lived to be about 90 -- mentally and physically alert. (My dad had polio in his mid-30s and suffered from post polio syndrome which limited his physical abilities more than age did.)

Does not 40 years of experience give one value as a mentor, teacher? If so, how does one sell this?


Hi Jim,
Well, first I'd say "Who wrote the rules saying you need to step back?" And, in addition, "Why would you subscribe to some prefab mindset called 'retirement' if it doesn't serve you?"

I don't know if I'm reading this right, but it sounds to me like you're tuned in and turned on about what you do. There's plenty--hear that...PLENTY--of ways to continue doing what you love, whether it be in the traditional reporting role or, as you say, as a mentor or teacher. First, get rid of the story adopted by so many of "retirement." This is a myth concocted at a party that you and I were not invited to...yet a myth that the rest of society (also not invited) bought into. Look, a "work of life" has no end. The end of a "work of life" is when the life itself ends. (Maybe.) Anyway, give yourself the right to keep pursuing what you love. Any grudgingly applied brakes will simply give your system less purpose for living. Next, if you're currently out of work, network your lively AARP butt off. You might not fare as well through the traditional method of applying for open jobs, so you'd want to pursue a back-door, what I call Stealth Job Search™, method...involving intense networking through informational interviews. If you're truly that good and highly esteemed at what you do, you won't go to waste: somebody will find good use for your talents.

Darrell W. Gurney, CPC, JCTC, RScP
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Gratitude among friends is like credit among tradesmen: it keeps business up, and maintains commerce. And we pay not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we might the more easily find lenders on another occasion.
--François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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Results from a recent (post 9/11) online survey of Netshare.com members (compliments of Kathy Simmons at http://www.Netshare.com):

1. How concerned are you in general?
36.5%--Very
47.2%--Somewhat
12.0%--Mildly
4.3%--Not that much
0.0%--No Response

2. How safe are you in your job?
9.3%--Very
17.1%--Think I am ok
12.5%--Not sure
13.9%--Less than confident
37.3%--Very concerned
9.9%--No response

3. A year ago, if you had lost your job, in most industries finding a new one was “relatively easy”. In today’s climate, how much has this changed?
77.3%--Significantly
19.7%--Somewhat
2.1%--Little
0.5%--Not at all
0.3%--No Response

4. In light of current conditions, how do you feel now about considering a job change?
58.4%--Not an issue
23.5%--Has to be the perfect opportunity
7.2%--Will stay where I am
10.9%--No Response

5. Which ONE of the following concerns you the most?
27.7%--The economy
56.5%--Your job or finding a new one
3.5%--The stock market
9.9%--Periodic attacks by terrorists
1.6%--A prolonged war on terrorism
0.8%--No Response

6. How much has the decline in the stock market impacted you?
20.0%--Severely
41.9%--Quite a bit
24.3%--Mildly
10.9%--Minimally
2.1%--Not at all
0.8%--No Response

7. To what extent has the market decline affected your retirement planning?
15.5%--Not relevant at this time
16.3%--Hardly at all
24.8%--Somewhat
23.2%--Enough to change my retirement plans
20.0%--Significantly enough to delay my retirement
0.3%--No Response

8. What is your best guess as to when the economy will turn around?
21.3%--Within 6 months
42.7%--One year
24.0%--18 months
9.1%--2 years
1.6%--3 years or longer
1.3%--No Response

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
--Victor Hugo
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Salary & Compensation Information Sites (compliments of Career Masters Institute):

Abbott, Langer & Associates http://www.abbott-langer.com
Administrative & Office Salaries http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos002.htm
America's Career InfoNet http://www.acinet.org/acinet/
American Compensation Association http://www.worldatwork.org.org/
Broadcast, TV, & Radio Salaries http://www.missouri.edu/~jourvs/
Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Compensation information--Very complete. Prices start at $40.00
http://www.claytonwallis.com
Compensationlink.com http://www.compensationlink.com
Consultant Salaries http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/jobs/mco/salary.htm
Economic Research Institute http://www.erieri.com
Engineer Salaries http://fairway.ecn.purdue.edu/ESCAPE/stats/salaries.html
JobStar--Source of salary surveys http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/index.htm
Medical salaries http://www.pohly.com/salary.shtml
MIS Salaries http://www.psrinc.com/salary.htm
Monster.com - Negotiation Coach http://midcareer.monster.com/experts/negotiation/
Salary calculator--Will compare salaries between any two cities
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/cmr/salcalc.html
Salary Survey http://www.salarysurvey.com
Wageweb http://www.wageweb.com
Wall Street Journal--Wide variety of surveys including the hard-to-find (e.g.: sales
and production) http://www.careerjournal.com/salaries/index.html

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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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Minding Your Own Business (Part 2 of 2)


You, a self-employed business owner, invest your assets in the employment “market.” Whether you invest them here or there makes all the difference in the ROI you will receive. You might consider your own business’s ROI as Return on Effort (ROE) or Return on Ability (ROA). Your owner’s equity, or “career equity,” will be impacted by your choice among investment opportunities. The degree to which you “own” your own business and, therefore, focus on managing your assets most effectively, is the degree to which you will get the most career satisfaction--and profit. So, the question becomes:

Where are you going to put your ass(ets)?

When used responsibly, recruiters can be viewed as brokers—investment advisors showing you the myriad career investment opportunities available. You put your paycheck, your money, in the bank so it can be managed by someone else, enabling you to deal with other things, right? Maybe you send it to your stockbroker so she can put it in the market to net you the highest return. Whatever you do with it, you place it in someone else’s hands so you can focus on what you do best. There is nothing different about using a good headhunter to help you invest your “employable” assets.
Now, I’m not suggesting that you, as an investing employee, should shift your “portfolio” every time the employment market moves a particular way. In the world of Wall Street, as in life, work, relationships, etc., holding a steady course and riding out the bumps is often the best option. However, if and when the “writing on the wall” gets too big to be ignored, is it not better to have someone who has continually watched the market for you assist in moving your assets elsewhere?

This ability to prudently re-invest, however, does not come from the old-style use of recruiters—on an emergency basis. You wouldn’t expect a doctor to know everything about how your body works the first time you walk into his office, nor would you want a stockbroker you just met to arbitrarily throw your money into this or that fund, would you? No. You would want a doctor to be fully informed about your medical history and have some personal, long-term experience observing your health. You would expect a stockbroker to know your long-term financial goals when determining your best investment portfolio. Similarly, to use a recruiter responsibly and have your long-range welfare taken into account, you want to establish a long-term relationship with that recruiter. I’m not suggesting that emergencies won’t occur when you will need a recruiter’s help right away. However, to the extent that you’ve been a regular “patient” or “investor,” you will often get better service.

(Excerpted from “Headhunters Revealed! Career Secrets for Choosing and Using Professional Recruiters”. No portion of this material may be reproduced in any manner without prior written consent from Hunter Arts Publishing.)

Darrell W. Gurney, Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC), Certified Job & Career Transition Coach (JCTC), and Licensed Spiritual Counselor (RScP), is Principal of A Permanent Success National Career/Search Partners and author of “Headhunters Revealed! Career Secrets for Choosing and Using Professional Recruiters” ($14.95, Softcover), available online at http://www.HeadhuntersRevealed.com or by calling 1-877-4-HEADHUNT. “Headhunters Revealed!” received the 2001 Clarion Award for Best Book by the Association for Women in Communications (http://www.womcom.org), was reviewed in Publishers Weekly and the American Library Association's Booklist, and has been featured in nationally syndicated career columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy's "Careers Now."

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I awoke this morning with a devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself to me in his gifts?
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Darrell Gurney, CPC, JCTC, RScP will be a guest at the following upcoming events:

The Learning Annex will host Darrell for the topic “How to Ma$ter the Hidden Job Market”, an evening of discussion on both recruiting and career coaching tools which allow the uncovering of the jobs you never hear about. Dates are December 18, January 21, March 19, and June 17 in Los Angeles. 6:30-9:30pm. Cost is $29 for members and $39 for non-members. You and your friends can sign up at http://www.learningannex.com

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
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Here are the Top Ten finalists from a recent real-life "Dilbert Quotes" contest:

1. "As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks."
--This was the winning quote from Fred Dales at Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA.)

2. "What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might encounter."
--Lykes Lines Shipping

3. "E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used only for company business."
--Accounting manager, Electric Boat Company

4. "This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important interfere with it."
--Advertising/Marketing manager, United Parcel Service

5. "Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule."
--Plant manager, Delco Corporation

6. "No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you know when it's time to tell them."
--R&D supervisor, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing/3M Corp.

7. "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say."
--Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation

8. "My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died on purpose so that I would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said, 'That would be better for me.'"
--Shipping executive, FTD Florists

9. "We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees."
--Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division

10. "One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He said, 'If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!'"
--Hallmark Cards executive

E-mail your CareerHumor and/or CareerQuotes to Editor@CareerSecrets.com.

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One of life’s gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.
Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.
--J Robert Moskin
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