by John G. Self | Oct 31, 2017 | Career Management
Keeping a career journal can be a meaningful addition to your career management plan. I have long extolled the benefits of career journaling. Some of the nation’s leading executives keep records of each day, their major decisions, and their reflections on how they...
by John G. Self | Sep 27, 2017 | Career Management
LISTEN ON iTUNES The consolidation of healthcare continues apace, reports of troubled mergers and questions about the validity of the bigger is better strategy notwithstanding. TODAY, our big idea: The executive job market is tightening as hospital systems and...
by John G. Self | Aug 17, 2017 | Career Management
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you will fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker I am an advocate of career planning, beginning with...
by John G. Self | Dec 30, 2013 | Career Management
The New Year starts now. Unless you are a senior executive with a retirement plan that is set, or a lucky CEO with a generous golden parachute, you need to invest more time and energy in managing your career brand in 2014. Why? Because a significant number of...
by John G. Self | Sep 9, 2013 | Career Management, Recruiting
Over the past 20 years I have spent much time with early careerists, hundreds of freshly minted graduate school would-be senior executives. They all think they know where they are going, but clearly, the vast majority do not know how to get there. So they ask for...