Welcome to the Career Potential Blog
How do you handle salary negotiations?
My most important piece of advice on this subject: Your past salary has nothing to do with your next salary. Nothing. Your past salary was given to you in another time, another place, and for ... Read More
Knowledge and Intellect
In a down economy, the greatest asset you have to sell is your knowledge and intellectual resources. When business gets tough, the demand for people who can think strategically and deliver results goes up, not ... Read More
What’s the most desperate thing you’ve done for a job?
We've all seen the pictures in the papers of down-and-out businessmen wearing sandwich boards that say GIVE ME A JOB; it's a sign of the times. As I told Dawn Klingensmith of the Philadelphia Inquirer, ... Read More
Get the Job You Want, Not the Job Everyone Else Wants
Ford R. Myers shares, Philly.com has a great article advising college students to major in what interests them instead of the "golden majors" that are "guaranteed" to get them a job and a big salary ... Read More
Online Job Tools
There are tons of job boards and employment web sites, and there's no reason why you shouldn't take advantage of them. Free resources are especially helpful to those in job seeking mode ... Read More
Getting Noticed
Ford R. Myers, Award-Winning Career Coach says, when the job market is down and your competition has decided to sit out the rest of the game, that’s the worst time for you to quit, because ... Read More
