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What You Need to Know About Psychometric Testing
Psychometric testing – for fun and in the context of employment – is a huge topic and industry. In this article, I explain the basics that employees and employers should keep in mind when using these tests.

Resilience – If You Don’t Think You Have It, You Can Get It
Obviously, I consider resilience to be an essential ingredient for career development, career management, and human resources (HR). My tagline ‘Building Resilient Careers and Organizations.™” In this article, I define resilience and share concrete strategies …

Summer burnout – what is it and how can it affect your job?
Summer … we all know to get the sunblock and hats out to shield us from the intense and dangerous rays. But, what about protecting ourselves from other, less obvious burns … like summer burnout?

What We Can Learn About Hiring from Viral Posts and Basketball
In this article, I use a viral post from LinkedIn and Barack Obama’s insights about the Toronto Raptors’ historic 2019 NBA Championship to describe what we can learn about hiring people.

How Leaky Time Management Can Sink Your Ship
There’s no shortage of general articles about time management, but there’s far less advice around “time leakage,” especially as it applies to professionals who can’t track all their time worked so they under-bill clients for their time …

In the Past There was Moonlighting, Now it’s the Side Hustle
Although many people look down on the ‘side hustle’ there’s plenty to admire. In this blog, I explain why a side hustle is a valuable career-building tool.

Scapegoats and the Glass Cliff: When Careers Get Derailed
Scapegoating and the glass cliff may sound like something made up or exaggerated. In this article, I’ll break down what these terms mean, who they affect and why.

The Times, They Are a Changing … But is Our Time Management?
The modern workplace has changed a lot – because of technology, globalization, diversity, and #MeToo. But, has our approach to time management kept up? Some modern time management suggestions are offered.










