by John G. Self | Apr 6, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Early Careerists, Healthcare, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Podcast, Recruiting
Hello everyone! Today’s podcast focuses on how to work with recruiters. I am always surprised when I realize how little executives and candidates know about the recruiting process, and how various types of search firms actually work. We will provide you with...
by John G. Self | Apr 6, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Healthcare, Leadership
The hardest part of change is to take an action that runs counter to your beliefs, experience or, even more challenging, your basic nature. Over a broad range of industries facing radical transformation such as the print and broadcast media sector and healthcare, the...
by John G. Self | Mar 31, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Healthcare, Military Career Transition, Recruiting
One thing the military does better than Harvard, Yale, Wharton or Kellogg schools of business, is teach leadership. The Pentagon invests more per capita on leadership training than perhaps any US corporation, save GE. “After you strip away the rank, the uniform and...
by John G. Self | Mar 30, 2016 | Career Management, Early Careerists, Healthcare, Leadership, Millennials, Recruiting
I think the Millennials — the vast majority — are getting a bum rap. Previously, I wrote about some fairly damning criticisms of this group which I thought were unfair, especially when you consider that every generation has its own sociological quirks. An age...
by John G. Self | Mar 2, 2016 | Career Management, Healthcare
There are some interesting trends that will impact career management strategies over the next five to seven years. If you are someone who isn’t comfortable with change, now is the time to recalibrate your perspective and begin to prepare yourself for an entirely...
by John G. Self | Feb 19, 2016 | Healthcare
Integrity. Unfortunately, there has been a decline in the importance of this core value. This is not me ranting. I also recognize the risk of seeming to bite the hand that generously feeds but this is just too important to let it pass. I hear stories from board...