Katharine Hansen, PhD

Your brand should help you generate enthusiasm in others for what you’ve accomplished.
Just what is a career coach? These practitioners have been compared to personal trainers for your life, your champion, cheerleader, advocate, partner and sounding board.
Here are the keys to a smooth long distance job search. Follow these simple guidelines to avoid many of the stresses of job hunting from a distance.
Professionals have unprecedented opportunities today to become known, and the biggest opportunity comes from building an online presence.
Career experts advocate having both a mentor and a sponsor.
Some hiring managers will not hire those who don’t thank them; others, given two equal candidates, will choose the one who sent a thank you.
Not only can we humanize with storytelling; we can use stories to connect.
The idea is to have a conversation with someone holding a job like the one you’d like to have and perform informational interviews to ask all about what the job is like.
Virtually every aspect of what employers seek can be framed as an accomplishment – skills, values, experience, results, subject-matter knowledge, uniqueness, proof of performance.