This Is Not The Career I Ordered™ Blog
Savvy Professional Career Wisdom by Caroline Dowd-Higgins
This is Not the Career I Ordered is read by thousands of careerists around the globe. With savvy tools, inspiration, and resources, this timeless book empowers you to enjoy your career, and love your life!
Celebrating My One-Year Milestone
A year ago, I left a senior leadership role in a large organization to pursue my executive coaching, speaking, and consulting practice full-time. My side-hustle entrepreneurial days morphed into a full-time venture, and I have never been happier. This was not an overnight decision. I had been pursuing my business on evenings, weekends, and precious […]
Older, Wiser, and Career Dynamic
I have several executive coaching clients in their late fifth and sixth decade of life who are navigating a career change due to lay-offs, or company mergers and acquisitions beyond their control. Others are career transitioning by choice and excited about designing a new chapter in life and career. My clients expressed worry about ageism […]
Tips For Landing A Job Over 40: Putting the 3 P’s To Work
There’s no doubt that being back in the job market in your 40s and 50s can be more challenging than earlier days on the job-hunting trail. Many of my 40-plus coaching clients feel out of interview shape and daunted by the job-search process – especially if they’ve been steadily employed for years, or even decades. […]
Give, Give, Get in Life and Career!
My life and career philosophy focuses on authentically giving to others. As the recipient of priceless wisdom and generosity from others throughout my life, I want to share ideas that will help you focus on paying-it-forward. When You Give – You Also Receive – Consider how you can give of your time, talent, or treasure […]
How to Keep Your Colleagues Engaged Through Better, Faster Meetings
Time is money: it’s been said and proven again and again. But never before has the definition of time been so clear-cut, drastic and incredibly precise—through advancements in business technology and communication, companies can track every second of work done by every single employee, with time management tools and productivity trackers to aggregate levels of […]
Landing the Job: 4 Sales Strategies For Interviews
It’s fair to say that we’re all sales people to some extent in our work lives – selling the team on a new strategy…selling the boss on granting a raise or promotion – and we’re most definitely in sales mode when it comes to interviewing for a job. When you walk into an interview, you’re […]
Blissful Beauty Sleep Can Help Your Career
I am delighted to feature this guest blog post from Jen Owen, an Adult Nurse Practitioner specializing in Integrative Medicine. She has over 20 years of experience working with natural remedies for health, including herbs, supplements, and nutrition. She combines this knowledge with conventional medicine to find the very best plan for each patient. Jen […]
A Survival Guide to Dealing with Difficult Colleagues
Professional behavior should be a given expectation amongst working adults but in reality, most of us have experienced unprofessional conduct in the workplace. You can choose your friends but you don’t always have the luxury of choosing your colleagues. In the iconic words of the late leadership guru, Peter Drucker, “We spend a lot of […]
Is Working Remotely For You? 5 Questions To Help You Decide
Have you ever considered trading in your daily commute, travelling several miles from home, for a commute where you’re travelling several feet to the closest computer in your home? More and more of my coaching clients are interested in exploring the option of working remotely, and according to an American Community Survey, there are 3.3 […]
Women Climbing to the Top in the Oil and Gas Industry
Many thanks to Miley Green for her insightful guest blog. Miley has investigated past and present gender biases across various fields of work. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree, hoping to delve further into the world of feminism and discover new ways to help women succeed in male-dominated industries. While men may dominate the […]
Cool-Power Leadership: 4 Guidelines To Cultivate Yours
What do you value most in a leader? The 4th annual Ketchum Leadership Communication Monitor (KLCM) recently came out with some interesting findings that point to changing views about leadership around the globe. An online survey went out to six thousand people in different parts of the world last spring – asking what they valued […]
It’s Time to Focus on Your Career Future
Summer vacations have ended and the kids are back in school so it’s a great time to prioritize your professional journey. According to a global LinkedIn study, September is one of the best months of the year to get promoted. “Now is a great time to check your career plan, and make sure that you […]
How Microlearning Can Shrink The Skills Gap
Chloe Britton shared this guest blog post. She is the Brand Manager of training app Wranx – which provides continual training and assessment to help HR and learning and development professionals extend their training and communication strategies out of the classroom and office. The skills gap between people and technology is growing all the time. But […]
25 Habits Of A Successful Job Seeker
Many thanks to Victoria Vein for this guest blog post. She is a specialist at the Resume Writing Lab Company helping people with job application documents. No one is born successful. Every admirable individual has to spend years, if not decades, shaping his or her character and attaining personal objectives. However, when it comes to […]
