Celebrating ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’

In honor of the opening day of New Moon, the latest film in The Twilight Saga, we thought we ...

The Cheryl Behind the Cheryl

Known to many as the long-suffering (ex)wife of funnyman Larry David, the man behind Seinfeld, ...

BlogTalkRadio Host of the Week: Alfred McComber from...

By Christina Blodgett In our continuing effort to spotlight more members of the BlogTalkRadio ...

 

Your show will start playing after this message

Profile

Michael Pocchiari

http://mpocchiari.wordpress.com/


Country: United States

Language: English

Visit on Facebook


On Demand Episodes

Friends

  • JohnCSweet

Michael's Career Corner  

Michael's Career Corner is a place those in career transition, or thinking about a career transition, can come to get information, insights and resources to help them on thier journey.

  • Archived Blog Post

    Date / Time:

    Where I'm coming from....

    In  1985 I graduated from Rutgers University, and thought I was going to set Wall St. on fire. Much to my surprise I landed a clerks position at a brokerage firm. Not the position from which you rule the financial markets as the next titan of industry. What I didn’t realize was this was the beginning of a journey. For the next few years I let the boat I called my career float with the current.
    In 1996 I was laid off for the first time in my working career. The first time in 21 years (I include my paper route when I was 12 years old) I was terminated from a job.
    At that time I lived in the old paradigm of job searching. You write a bunch of cover letters and resumes and mail them blindly to companies in your industry. I bought a book called the US Job bank, which contained names of executive officers and corporate addresses. My goal was to type and send out 50 resumes a day.
    The shotgun approach was all I knew. No one every told me about networking, planning or cultivating a job search. No one every explained to me that a career, not a job, is a journey.
    I got lucky; a vendor I knew from my previous job contacted me and clued me in about a company that was hiring human resource professionals. I was out of work only 3 months.
    Over the next decade I was laid off four times. The longest I was out of work was 18 months. You may be thinking, gee this guy can’t hold a job. Well the circumstances varied from down turns in a particular market place, reorganization and bankruptcy. The point being I have experience on both sides of the equation. As a Human Resources professional, I’ve had the dismal duty to release employees, and I myself (as I’ve stated) have been released as well.
    What I learned the hard way was that I never really was out of work. I was working all the time. Either I was contracting in my profession or working a temporary job to supplement cash flow. But I never really was out of work. I was constantly marketing my product and services; me!
    We must realize that we never stop managing our career. If you are in a relationship you don’t stop working at being a good partner, unless you want to find yourself alone. If you are a parent, you don’t stop raising your children, unless you want the authorities knocking at your door.
    Once you wrap your head around the fact career management is a continuous journey, then you must move on to the how, what when and where of your adventure.

Comments

There are no comments at this time.

Everything Else

Listen

 

Participate

 

Services and Terms

 

Corporate

 

BlogTalkRadio

 

© 2009 BlogTalkRadio.com. All Rights Reserved.