by Sheila Nielsen | Aug 26, 2015 | Career Transition
Now that the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.3% and may go even lower, many people are considering getting back into the job market after being out for a period of time. Over the years I have worked with many re-entry moms and re-entry dads. After being home with...
by Sheila Nielsen | Aug 20, 2015 | Workplace Behavior
The New York Times exposé of the workplace culture at Amazon has a lot of people talking about whether intense competition and the use of metrics to drive performance is a good thing or a bad thing. On the plus side, Amazon has apparently outstripped other companies...
by Sheila Nielsen | Aug 12, 2015 | Workplace Behavior
Nobody is perfect. To be human is to be flawed. And part of being flawed is having something you might think of as emotional allergies. We all have them. We probably get them from our imperfect childhoods: an overly critical mother, a combative belittling father, the...
by Sheila Nielsen | Aug 6, 2015 | Job Search
Everyone knows that when it comes to getting a job, it’s who you know. Right? Actually, think again. After counseling and coaching and watching hundreds of successful job searches in my counseling practice, I’d say it’s who you don’t know … YET that matters just as...