Lisa Kaye

Are You Committing Career Suicide?

Have you had enough of rejection letters, cancelled appointments, rescheduled interviews and your inability to gain traction in your search whatsoever? Are you continuing to blame the lousy economy, high unemployment and staggering competition for your lack of job progress or employment? Are you ready to admit that it might be more than just these issues causing you concern. Have you looked in the mirror lately and... (posted by Lisa 2 years 75 days ago.)

Build Your Job House

When the phone isn’t ringing, your email response to job inquiries falls silent and you can’t seem to get anyone to pay attention to you, it’s time to start some serious construction and pull out the tools to build your job house. I don’t mean career tools, like resumes, cv, references and updating your LinkedIn profile. I mean some serious, Extreme Makeover stuff that will make you visible in a crowd of hundreds of thousands of job... (posted by Lisa 2 years 87 days ago.)

Make It Work

For every fan of “Project Runway," you have heard the indelible Tim Gunn, utter his signature line “Make It Work" as he encourages, prods and sometimes embarrasses aspiring fashion designers to reach their goal of making it to the finish line and ultimately win the competition. For those of you who have a similar coach, mentor or someone you can rely on to encourage you to achieve your goals, you have received a rare gift. For those of you... (posted by Lisa 2 years 115 days ago.)

Is Your Career Blessed or Just A Mess?

In a time where you should be grateful for all that you have in your life, you can find yourself getting caught in the hail storm of worry, doubt and fear. When you know you should focus on the good things in your life, you can’t help but get dragged into the concerns, challenges and dread that has become your seemingly endless quest for the perfect job, or for some, just any job. When you look at your career, do... (posted by Lisa 2 years 163 days ago.)

Are You A Natural Born Recruiter?

What does it take to recruit talent these days? Is it as easy as it once was? When all it took was to post an advertisement in the trades, newspaper, job boards, Craigslist, or better yet, to actually pick up a phone and put the word out to your “network" for referrals? Do you remember when you would actually post jobs on a piece of paper in the lunch room so employees could apply to them before you even started the... (posted by Lisa 2 years 170 days ago.)

Hold The Vision & Trust The Process

I’m hearing from more and more people I meet with and interview how difficult it is out there. Particularly during the holidays when you are reminded about a holiday bonus, giving gifts and sharing good times with friends and family. You may not be in much of a mood to celebrate, but you have to show up, put a smile on your face, and pretend anyway. It’s not that you can’t be a good actor but why do you have to try so... (posted by Lisa 2 years 170 days ago.)