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Job Hunter Richard Burns Reports at the HR Network Breakfast
Richard Burns by Jane Rubinsky When Richard Burns was appointed the first chief operating officer of a private foundation in 2009, he instituted an outplacement program that sent departing employees to the Five O’Clock Club. Little did he… Read more
A Reason to Remain Optimistic
As a recent practicing HR professional, I still find myself amazed at the plethora of new terms the HR profession continues to rain upon us. Until recently, if you told me “talent management” was the current term for looking at employee… Read more
(Article from the Newsday) Help Wanted: Think like insider to get hired
April 23, 2013 9:58 AM By CARRIE MASON-DRAFFEN carrie.mason-draffen@newsday.com DEAR CARRIE: I have sent resumes to various companies that advertised job openings either in a publication or online. I felt I was qualified for the positions, but… Read more
The Press is Wrong — Again — They LOVE Mis-Reporting on Bad News
They’re not helpful, are they? The press loves to report bad news but they don’t tell you the whole truth. Where’s the balance? Atlantic magazine published an article titled, “The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment” by Matthew… Read more
First-Time Job Hunters and Five O’Clock Club Veterans Prove Our Methodology Works
by Jane Rubinsky Preparation and Focus Pay Off Like many people, Samantha found herself “floundering around a bit” when she lost her job handling mergers and acquisitions and partnership alliances for a large publishing company. “I sort… Read more
Everything is Negotiable
Blog by Chip Conlin, certified Five O’Clock Club coach In our Five O’Clock Club presentation on “The Four-Step Salary Negotiation Method” we discuss the four steps used to successfully negotiate a competitive salary/compensation package. … Read more
Stand Out from the Rest: Dress the Part
There have been many volumes written, and seminars given, about how to dress properly for interviews. Believe it or not, John Molloy’s Dress for Success has been around for 35 years! But I’m surprised that so many people haven’t gotten the… Read more
Handling Those Difficult Interview Questions
At a recent small group meeting, we decided to address the Five O’Clock Club topic of the week: “Handling Difficult Interview Questions” before we handled the issues each person faced in their job searches. Each group member was to come up… Read more
FALSE: To land that job, be among the first interviewed, study shows
The Five O’Clock Club says: NBCNews/Today got it wrong. Our research on experienced professionals, managers and executives shows that the person who is interviewed last has the best chance of being hired!! Read on to find out why. Here is… Read more
The Five O’Clock Club: A Family Affair for Career Success
By John Fitzgerald, Associate Editor, The Five O’Clock News Kevin considers himself, his wife and his two sons a family of Five O’Clock Clubbers. Today’s airport terminals may lack the grandeur of some of the great early twentieth-century… Read more
Get the Job You Want
By Kate Wendleton, President, The Five O’Clock Club and author of Mastering the Job Interview and Winning the Money Game Here’s a quick way to determine where you are in your job search and what might be wrong with the way you are… Read more
When Keeping it Simple Matters Most
At The Five O’Clock Club, we use a very defined methodology to help our members navigate their way through the complexities of job search. Within this methodology we speak of completing “assessment” exercises; brainstorming targets; knowing… Read more
Why Can’t I Get a Job?
How to Debunk the “No One’s Hiring” Myth: Twelve Proven Methods to Help You Land—Yes!—a Job Looking for a job right now feels overwhelming. But companies are hiring, and, if you do the right things, one will hire you. The Five… Read more
Summer is here..so..plan to keep the momentum going in your job search
Many people will be dropping out of the marketplace because they think summer is not a good time to look for a job. However, companies are hiring during the summer or selecting those they will hire in the Fall. Who gets hired in the Fall? Those who… Read more
How to Handle the Phone: A Life Skill
How to Handle the Phone: A Life Skill by Kate Wendleton I wrote to Betty, a senior HR executive whom I have known for years, asking her to be on a panel addressing about 100 other executives. A few days later, I called her office. Her… Read more
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
At The Five O’Clock Club we talk about four ways to get interviews – networking, direct and targeted mail, answering ads, and working with search firms. Our research and the experience of our members has shown that networking and the direct… Read more
Taking Your Cues From Others
I have become encouraged these past few weeks by the increasing number of informational meetings and job interviews many of our Five O’Clock Club members have been able to generate. While there is some evidence that when the stock market starts… Read more
Achieve Success through Effective Leadership
by Rob Hellmann, certified Five O’Clock Club coach Leadership skills are needed by everyone. In this article you’ll learn: why demonstrating leadership makes you a more valued employee; that leadership ability can be learned; how you… Read more
A Focus on Direct Contact and Networking: The Most Effective Job-Search Techniques
Most job hunters who are not Five O’Clock Clubbers search by contacting search firms or answering ads. But these stories from successful job hunters clearly bear out what our research shows: direct contact and networking are the two most effective… Read more
Unemployed Job Searchers Can Edge Out Those Employed Strategy and Time Management are Keys
Too many job hunters fall into the trap of believing it’s only the currently employed who get the best job offers quickly and command the highest salaries. Unemployed searchers may feel that they’ll get only second best. But research conducted… Read more
A Targeted Job Search Could Make 2012 a Very Good Year
Once again we’re into a New Year. Most of us have reflected on things that need to change and we’ve made our resolutions. Now may be the time to make a change that will bring more balance and happiness to your life. The truth is, the happier you… Read more
Job Searching the Old Fashioned Way
With the upcoming theme presentation at the 5OCC on “Shortcut Your Search: Internet and Other Research” I thought it would be helpful to remind our readers of the absolute joy and benefit of spending time at the library or other research… Read more
Enemy #1: Discouragement THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE SMALL GROUP FOUND JOBS IN HALF THE TIME
“Research”—sounds like a boring topic, right? Think again. We have just done research on the impact of Five O’Clock Club small groups for the last year, and guess what: job hunters who attended their small groups got jobs in half the… Read more
Mastering the Methodology Five O’Clock Club Coaches Speak Out About the Path to Certification
It is not a magic formula—just a common sense approach to career development,” says Phil Ronniger, a senior coach at The Five O’Clock Club. His sentiments are echoed by master coaches Roy Cohen and Chip Conlin. Roy makes it clear that they… Read more
The Shortest Route To A New Job
Instead of wasting your time on job listings, go directly to the source. In his editor’s introduction to this year’s Forbes 400 issue of Forbes magazine, chief product officer Lewis D’Vorkin recounts how he first came to work here. “I grabbed… Read more
Manage Your Search as You Would Your Job
Managing your job search can be a challenge. Five characteristics that can help you manage a successful job search are the same ones you used to successfully manage your jobs. 1. Perseverance: Your own resolution to succeed is… Read more
The (Not-So-Bad) Road to Happy and Hired: 11 Stress-Busters to Help You Sail Through Your Job Search…and Find Success
Looking for a job is always stressful. Doing so in a post-recession economy alongside millions of laid-off competitors can feel positively soul-crushing. But The Five O’Clock Club says that when you combine stress-busting techniques with smart… Read more
How to Debunk the “No One’s Hiring” Myth: The Five O’Clock Club Offers 12 Proven Methods to Help You Land-Yes!-a Job
Looking for a job right now feels overwhelming. But companies are hiring, and, if you do the right things, one is likely to hire you. The Five O’Clock Club says it’s time to apply some (proven, research-based) methodology to your job search madness…. Read more
Before You Say “Yes” to a Job Offer
Check Out the New Boss and the New Culture Over the last two years in my private practice as a Five O’Clock Club coach, I have had the pleasure of working with more than two hundred talented managers and executives who are looking for new jobs…. Read more
The Six Missing Pieces
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The Five O’Clock Club National Guild of Career Coaches In the fall of 2009, a member of the Club told me that he would like to change coaches. He said that he had been attending his small group for eight months,… Read more
How to Have a Systematic Job Hunt
by Kate Wendleton You ain’t goin’ nowhere . . . son. You ought to go back to driving a truck. Jim Denny, Grand Ole Opry manager, firing Elvis Presley after one performance. An interview on October 2, 1954. Man is not born to solve the problems… Read more
How to Target the Job You Want
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin Now we will work on firming up your job targets. You will do some preliminary research on each target through the Internet or library and by talking to people to see… Read more
How to Contact Companies Directly
by Kate Wendleton Without effort we cannot attain any of our goals in life, no matter what the advertisements may claim to the contrary. Anyone who fears effort, anyone who backs off from frustration and possibly even pain will never get… Read more
Are You Conducting a Good Campaign?
by Kate Wendleton The thing is to never deal yourself out . . . Opt for the best possible hand. Play with verve and sometimes with abandon, but at all times with calculation. L. Douglas Wilder The Quality of Your Campaign Getting a job… Read more
What To Do When Your Networking is Not Working
by Kate Wendleton In the old days, networking was a great technique. We job hunters were appreciative of the help we got, and treated those we met with respect and courtesy. We used networking to meet and form life-long relationships with people in… Read more
Are you Conducting a Good Search ?
How To Measure The Effectiveness Of Your Job Search. Take our FREE minicourse and find out quickly what you may be doing wrong. Most job hunters say, “I’ll know my search was good when I get a job.” That’s not a very good way to measure your… Read more
Lessons to be Learned From Those With Long Searches
Job Hunters Prove the Power of The Five O’Clock Club Methodology by David Madison, Ph.D. Director of the National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches Sometimes we hear about someone who gets lucky and lands a job in two or three weeks…. Read more
Don’t Miss the Small Group Strategy Session
This is not like any other group you may have attended. It’s not a support group, but you do get support. It’s not a networking group, but you may get networking contacts. In a Five O’Clock Club small group, you get one-on-one coaching in a… Read more
Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Job Search -Lots of Activity is Not Enough— You Need to Measure Quality Too
What do our competitors say? They measure the effectiveness of your job search based on your activity level alone: How many ads are you answering per week? How many meetings are you having? Yet, we meet many job hunters who have been searching for… Read more
The Five O’Clock Club’s Diagnostic Approach
So many poor attempts. Nothing is sadder than to meet someone who has already been getting job-search “help,” but the wrong help. They’ve learned the old-fashioned techniques that are no longer so effective. Most have lookalike Resumes and… Read more
What are these people talking about?
What Are These People Talking About? FIVE O’CLOCK CLUBBERS SPEAK IN SHORTHAND “It fell away through no fault of my own.” Five O’Clock Clubbers know the research: Out of six to ten job possibilities, five will fall away through no fault of… Read more
Using the Internet for Job-Search and Career Management
By: David Madison, PhD, Guild Director T his article is based on an interview with Wendy Alfus Rothman, author of the Five O’Clock Club Job-Search Bibliography, president of the Wenroth Group, and Internet research guru; and on a presentation by… Read more
The Job-Search Buddy System
Do you wish you had someone to talk to—fairly often and informally—about the little things? “Here’s what I’m planning to do today in my search? What are you planning to do? Let’s talk tomorrow to make sure we’ve done it.” You and… Read more
Do You Make These Job-Hunting Mistakes?
The Five O’Clock Club’s Book Series has enabled thousands of people to correct their job-search mistakes. Most who attend regularly and read our books–even those unemployed up to two years–have a new job within only ten weekly sessions. Most job… Read more