top of page
CDA Insights
Sep 18, 20172 min read
Kindness and Respect: Two Keys to the Counselor’s Role
Beneficence, actively doing good, is a primary responsibility of career services professionals, according the NCDA Code of Ethics, and...
Aug 21, 20173 min read
Metaphorically Speaking: Using Language Tools to Convey Career-life Meaning
Does your client walk away from your sessions nonplussed? Do the vets you assist realize your compliment of “passing with flying colors”...
Jun 22, 20172 min read
Corporate Culture: Understanding Leads to Collaboration
My company focuses on providing quality career services. We offer employees flexible work options and we do not house everyone in a...
May 15, 20172 min read
The Job Search Jungle: The Rough and Wild Side of the Job Search
While I like to put humor into every situation, sometimes it is difficult to achieve laughter when talking about rough job searches....
Apr 17, 20172 min read
New Growth in Spring: Time for Professional Development
Being noncommittal to your professional development is like walking a tight rope across two tall buildings – once you fall off, it is...
Mar 20, 20172 min read
Execute is One Key for the Executive: The Optimal Package is The Goal
Creating and maintaining an effective strategy for an executive career is more work than most people can envisage. Networking, branding,...
Feb 20, 20172 min read
Staying Upbeat: Be Courageous, Dream On, Get Inspired
The winter months take their tolls on the psyche. Staying positive is important year round, and can require redoubled efforts when the...
Jan 16, 20173 min read
Being the First: Who or What is First in the Work Life?
Being the first, means you are a leader – you are key, cardinal, head, or premier. As a career practitioner, you lead your clients into...
Dec 19, 20162 min read
Outside the Box: Using Resources Beyond Your Desk
Despite sounding ordinary, in and out are very powerful prepositions. Someone may be “out of a job”, or “in a career search mode.” We are...
Nov 21, 20162 min read
Work As Identity: The Job is but one Story in Life
Discerning work’s meaning to the individual is like trying on masks at a costume shop. Quite often more than one is picked up, placed on...
Oct 17, 20162 min read
Technology Techniques: Apps & URLs & Social Media – Oh My!
If you think back to the days when all this technology at our finger tips did not exist (or are you too young to recall that), you may...
Sep 19, 20162 min read
Intergenerational Teams: Achieving Goals ~ Working with Differences
Stereotypes. You try to ignore them and they pop up again. They work for you, especially when faced with a team of players that you do...
Aug 15, 20163 min read
Performance: Examining Optimal Levels of Productivity as an Organization, Employee or Job Seeker
Dictionary.com offers eight different meanings of the noun performance and 19 synonyms were listed on thesaurus.com. Both include the...
Jul 18, 20162 min read
Soft Skills and Leadership: Developing and Implementing Traits that Go Beyond the Task
Effective leaders do not take for granted soft skills. New workers may ignore discipline, empathy, and motivation as hardly more than a...
Jun 20, 20162 min read
Change Happens: Aim for a Blend of Introspect, Retrospect and Prospect
Some people prefer to perceive change with their own eyes, ears or other senses. Yet other people prefer to follow their intuition or gut...
May 16, 20162 min read
May Mortarboard Momentum: Hail to the College Graduate!
Transitioning from backpacks to briefcases is no longer a cut and dried line on graduation day. Many students have already experienced...
Apr 18, 20162 min read
Overcoming Bad Career Moves: Forward Focus From Now On
Just because you have made one (three? sixty?) bad career moves, doesn’t mean you need to continue that pattern. Unless you have ossified...
Mar 21, 20162 min read
Warming Trends: Career Areas Are Springing Into Action
As one reads about the unique opportunities that exist or are coming into existence, it would be easy to fall into the trap of dwelling...
Feb 15, 20162 min read
How to Work Like an Entrepreneur: Whether You Are One Already or Aspiring to Be!
“Yes…And” – two key words entrepreneurs must learn to use wisely. Spoken to a customer, it sounds like this, “Yes, I can do this for you...
Jan 18, 20162 min read
New Year, New Hires: Helping New Employees Feel Welcome
If you can remember your first day at your current job, or the very first day of your very first job, you might recall feeling excited,...
bottom of page