This article was previously written by JT O’Donnel, Career Coach and Founder of Careerealism.com. When I saw the announcement 2,000 people were laid-off from Yahoo this week, my first thought was, “I hope they gave them some good career coaching services.” Then, I realized I could shoot this quick video to share the four steps [...]
Pros and Cons to Becoming A Consultant
by Deborah Shane on April 10th
J.T. O’Donnell is the founder of CAREEREALISM and CEO of CareerHMO, a web-based career development company. I get at least a dozen e-mails each month from people asking for my advice on whether they should become a consultant. Becoming a consultant isn’t as easy as it sounds. Or, should I say, while it’s [...]
10 Ways To Tell If Your Job Search Is A Joke!
by Deborah Shane on February 20th
This article was previously written by JT O”Donnell, founder and CEO of CareerHMO.com. We have millions of job seekers right now. I’d argue more than 70% of them are conducting a weak job search. I guess the good news is, if you are reading this, you can avoid the lame job search efforts below and [...]
Great Tips From the Pros on Our Radio Show!
by Deborah Shane on January 6th
Deborah Shane’s Metropolis is a weekly business radio show launched in 2009, on the popular BlogTalkRadio Network. We feature authors, entertainers, experts, entrepreneurs, journalists and businesspeople who share their passion, insights and process about the current world of work, careers, new media, motivation and marketing. Our show has over 34,000 total downloads, hundreds [...]
Managers Lie Because You Want Them To
by Deborah Shane on November 21st
This is an article by JT O’Donnell Founder of Careerealism that ran previously on CareerHMO.com. One of my favorite books of all-time is called, Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn. Published over 50 years ago, Kohn predicted our obsession with psychologist B.F. Skinner’s theory of behaviorism was making us soft (a.k.a addicts). He used multiple [...]




















