Employment and Career Observations and Opinion

Leslie Campos again provides us with astute insight and timely perspective for those committed to invigorating their careers. Enjoy Leslie's latest contribution: Image via Pexels It’s a strange ache—the realization that you’ve plateaued. You show up, check boxes, close laptops. Rinse, repeat. At some point, the thrill vanished. That upward glide you once trusted. It’s now a flatline. But here’s the thing: stalled careers aren’t dead ones. They’re dormant. And if you’re willing to disrupt your patterns, inject some discomfort, and make room for reinvention, the climb returns. The goal isn’t a complete overhaul. It’s friction. Small shocks to the ...

She's Back! Guest columnist Leslie Campos of Well Parents posts another one of her practical and timely pieces designed to assist readers with the challenges of life and career—this time with a possible recession looming. Image: Freepik How to Navigate and Rise During a Recession No one signs up for a recession. It shows up uninvited, hits like a cold wind, and makes everything feel just a little less certain. Layoffs hover, prices climb, and fear starts breathing down your neck like it has a right to be there. But the truth is, while recessions are real and raw, they’re ...

"Nursing is walking out of the building several times a week crying or crying while they're [nurses] in the building trying to take care of more patients than they're able to," says an ER Level 1 trauma nurse in New York City. She adds, "We don't want to offer poor care, and we do our best not to. But when you have the ratios nurses are facing now, there is no way to deliver the best health care that you want."  "Patients are being sent home from the hospital with higher acuity and less community resources such as home health ...

Guest essayist Leslie Campos of Well Parents is back with another timely career piece! Photo by Freepik Feeling stuck in a career can be a frustrating experience. When day-to-day work no longer brings satisfaction or a sense of progress, it might be time to explore new opportunities. Taking steps toward a career change can feel overwhelming, but with the right approach, it's possible to transition smoothly into something more fulfilling. Reflect and Realign Your Core Competencies Before diving into the job market, take a moment to deeply analyze your existing skills, interests, and values. Understanding what motivates you at a ...

A long standing concern involving employment transitions is mitigating the harmful effects of any red flags on your resume. Of course, we want to accentuate positives about ourselves as potential employees on our resumes, but sometimes risky content cannot be avoided. Such possible liabilities need to be managed instead. There are three significant red flags that often have to be managed effectively by the job seeker. These are long gaps of being unemployed, job hopping, and unplanned departures, especially from the most recent jobs. Potential employers rightly have concerns about all three of these situations and to assuage their worries ...

We often hear about the virtue of agility as both a requirement to achieve business success and as a needed worker trait when navigating a career during a time of flux. Knowing how to advantageously manage change is considered smart and profitable. Many however, may wonder how exactly agility is to be practiced. Is it just a matter of adopting a new mindset or are there specific actions that need to be taken? What follows are my thoughts on agility in the context of career development for the individual worker. Yes, mentally shifting away from habitual rigidity and unchallenged assumptions ...

So here you are putting the best you have into a job you have had for several years. The compensation is decent, but not great. However, other of your work preferences are in place such as hybrid work settings, respectable collogues, manageable work volume, and most importantly you are largely able to exercise your strengths with minimal time spent on dealing with your weak areas. On balance, it is a good job, which is why you have stuck with it this long. But as time has gone on you find yourself wondering if your bosses really care about you. You ...

Workplace culture unfolds to be what it is due to interactions of several influences. Included among these affects are how leadership and managerial styles project specific decision-making approaches, the modes of communication present, and guidance behaviors displayed by management and mentors. In addition, organizations may attempt to adhere to mission statements or other codified value declarations to drive operations, policies, and procedures. Workspace design can also matter when assessing the safety, comfort, and efficiency of the workplace. Further, diversity and inclusion, learning and development, and work-life balance initiatives can make a difference in employee attitudes. All of these factors are ...

Harvard Business Review recently released a 2023 talent management piece by Richard Florida from the University of Toronto and Vladislav Boutenko, Antoine Vetrano, and Sara Saloo, all with Boston Consulting Group, entitled The Rise of the Meta City. Their thesis reveals an emerging development in the evolving work-from-home (WFH) paradigm that is novel and worth considering as we envision the future of both our careers and where to become a resident. It is no secret that mobility-enhancing technologies combined with the face to face limitations wrought by the Pandemic resulted in a rapid expansion of remote work. From approximately 6% ...