John M. O’Connor Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Membership (fee-based) Leadership John M. O’Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. You cannot get along in this work world without a brand of some kind. You don’t have to be famous, brilliant or creative. You don’t even …
Why Top Performers Are Not Always What They Seem And What To Do About It
John M. O’Connor Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Membership (fee-based) Leadership John M. O’Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. It’s not just the act of causing someone or an organization to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid. “Top performers” can deceive …
Three Ways To Zoom Through Your Next Virtual Interview
John M. O’Connor Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Paid Program Leadership John M. O’Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. Rendering your experience and selling the value of you in a virtual interview didn’t just occur recently. In the past decade, sophisticated executive recruiters, companies and …
Inside The Bonkers World Of Hiring
John M. O’Connor Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Paid Program Leadership John M. O’Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. Tyler Fitzgerald: “Anybody can fly plane, now here: I’ll check you out. Put your little hands on the wheel there. Now put your feet on the …
Power-Balance Your Virtual Career Networking
John M. O’Connor Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Paid Program Leadership John M. O’Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. Virtual networking now powers many critical conversations today. If you are looking for your next “opportunity,” numbers matter, but balance that enthusiasm with classic networking tactics. …
Three Counterintuitive Reasons To Slow Your Job Search Roll
John M. O’Connor Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Paid Program Leadership John M. O’Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. What a job seeker intuitively expects and thinks about job search in some ways has not changed during my 29-year career coaching journey. Many of the …
Three Signs It’s Time To Leave Your Job
John M. O’Connor Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Paid Program Leadership John M. O’Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. Many very tough decisions must be made before you voluntarily leave a job, but there are times when you must, despite the hit to your finances …
Ways To Create A Better Virtual Networking Mindset
John M. O’Connor Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Paid Program Leadership John M. O’Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. Living and working behind your phone screen or computer screen or in a virtual meeting seems to be what most professionals must do to be effective …
Have Decision-Making Anxiety? Overcome It With These 16 Tips
Expert Panel® Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Paid Program Leadership With the seemingly endless amount of decisions they have to make, it’s fairly common for leaders to experience decision fatigue. Being in charge and leading the direction of a department or company is taxing. It’s OK to feel this way sometimes, but your decision fatigue shouldn’t get …
End The Handshake With These Alternatives
John M. O’Connor Forbes Councils Member Forbes Coaches Council COUNCIL POST| Paid Program Leadership POST WRITTEN BY John M. O’Connor John M. O’Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. “John, you probably haven’t had a client quite like me before. Or maybe you have, but here is what’s going …