Career Management Tips – Smart Lemming – Career Management Guide

How can you have a successful career in today’s job market? By managing your career rather than letting it manage you and learning the Smart Lemming approach to career development. The 2011 job market Employers look for proven ability by cherry picking the employed rather than take a chance on the long-term unemployed. After the [...]

New Releases in Job Hunting & Careers Looking for new business books on career management? Below are the latest book releases on Amazon with their respective product descriptions. These titles are timely for individuals, who are proactively managing their career, learning new business life skills, or facing a performance review. 1. The Sequel: How to [...]

New Releases in Job Hunting & Careers Looking for new business books on career management? Below are the latest book releases on Amazon with their respective product descriptions. These titles look timely for individuals, who are proactively managing their career, coping with the Great Recession’s effect on a job market that forced job seekers to [...]

This week Lori Grant recommends three business books that help you find your core purpose in life, avoid making mistakes at work that make you look bad to your peers or manager, and learn the unwritten rules at work, giving you the upper hand with peers.

With so much valuable information on personal brands in book and blogs, don’t lose the forest for the trees. Personal branding ≠ career management. I repeat, personal branding by itself is NOT managing your career.

The Smart Lemming’s sent out the following tweets, recommending these additional resources from news, articles, and posts on business life, career management, management and leadership, and women in business: Career Planning using Mind Mapping Must-read book for people of color: Good Is Not Enough: Unwritten Rules for Minority Professionals From the Archives: All work and [...]

10 Action Items to Proactively Manage Your Career Now 1. Don’t Know Your Next Career Move? Write a Five-Year Strategic Plan: write your mission, vision, and values in your strategic plan to help you discover your next career goals, making the thought of work more meaningful rather than pointless. 2. Master’s Degree: Is It Worth [...]

What would you do, if you could start your career over? What you do with a clean slate, a tabula rasa, or a young mind not yet affected by your older self’s experience? Would you take a different career path? Would you take the same one, but tweak the experiences? Do nothing? I know I [...]