Common Ground on Organizational Culture: How the Right Cultural Assessment Tool Can Help Your Company Thrive

When people throw out the terms “workplace culture” or “organizational culture,” eyes often glaze over.  Why?  Because although everyone agrees that culture is critically important, nobody agrees on what precisely culture means.  Is a workplace culture described by how people dress?  What time do people come in each day?  Does it refer to a company’s […]

How Can You Find Your Calling?

Lots of people kick off the new year by evaluating changes they’d like to make, including (and perhaps especially) within their career paths.  Often, we think through our current situation by comparing to what other people seem to experience.  I like to engage in this task as well, which is why I am re-reading two […]

Informational Interviewing for Vocational Exploration

You’ve taken your jobZology assessments, read through your results, explored your career matches, and identified a few vocational pathways that pique your interest. Now what? A good place to start is by reading career information available on jobZology and other internet sites that outline job descriptions, typical tasks, and summarize the knowledge, skills, and abilities […]

Four Ways to Help Your Children find Their Callings

If you’re a parent of young children, you may find yourself looking at your kids and wondering: What are they going to end up doing when they grow up?  Will they feel about their jobs the way you feel about yours?  Either you hope so—or you hope not!  What you do with your work is […]

Understanding “Culture Fit” – How to Improve Fit-Based Hiring Practices

A recent article from the Association for Talent Development dives into the concept of hiring for fit, discussing how hiring to a corporate culture relates to equal employment opportunity and workplace diversity.  The author raises an interesting point – “Could building a culture based on ‘fit’ keep out those who are different in some way?” If […]

Discover What Makes You Happy

Gretchen Rubin is a best-selling author of the books The Happiness Project, Better than Before, and The Four Tendencies. She is described as one of the most thought-provoking and influential writers on habits and happiness, and has terrific advice on how to begin to make small changes to experience happiness on a daily basis. With […]

Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation

As an individual born between the years of 1980 and 2000, I’ve had my fair share of encounters with that dreaded word. You know, the “M” word. Alright, I’ll say it…I’m a Millennial! While I have a number of thoughts about the label and the baggage that comes with it, I cannot argue with the […]

Own That Career, You Know You Want To

When I was 10, I had my “choice” of three television channels to watch, we could not watch TV until after dinner, and the TV was off by 8:00 PM.  My kids grew up with at first dozens and then hundreds of stations to watch, and now as young adults they watch whatever episode of […]

Start the Semester Strong with Self-Exploration

As a college student, mid-to-late August always brought a large wave of mixed feelings: coming to terms with the imminent end of summer; reminiscing on nights spent fireside with friends; getting excited to see familiar faces bustling around campus; yet still dreading the onslaught of readings, assignments, and projects that comes with the start of […]

The $35,000 question: What should I major in?

The $35,000 question: What should I major in? According to a new analysis by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher at Edvisors, the class of 2015 represents the most indebted college graduates in U.S. history. Many of them will leave school with loan obligations of $35,000 or more. Students at the beginning of their college experience see a […]