Dan King is principal of Career Planning and Management, Inc., www.careerfirm.com and co-founder of MeaningfulCareers.com. With over 25 years experience in counseling, training, coaching and career development, he supports individuals and organizations in planning and managing a wide range of contemporary worklife and workplace issues.

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	Getting Unstuck: How To Jump Start Your Job Search by Dan King - Oct, 2010 Stuck. It’s how you feel when you've followed all the best advice, posted your resume on the major job sites, spread the word to friends and colleagues that you're looking, and you're still getting nowhere. You’re left wondering: "Will I ever get hired? Wouldn't any normal person have a jo...
	It's Hard To Find Good Help by Dan King - Oct, 2010 When you need advice on your career, it seems just about everybody is eager and willing to tell you what you should do. Never mind that their own career paths often resemble a runaway train careening toward eventual derailment. People love to give advice. They want to help. They just don't...
	So Where Are The Good Jobs? by Dan King - Oct, 2010 Recently, I attended a social event where I didn't know anybody. You know these occasions -- they're the ones where you're just the guest of the person who was really invited. The functions you attend merely to keep peace, where you endure a couple of hours of boredom in order to forestall...
	So, Tell Me About Your Weaknesses by Dan King - Oct, 2010 In a calm, confident manner, Sam replied, "My biggest weakness is that I can become impatient with people who don't set standards as high as mine." Huh? I should have let it go, but it was late in the day and I was already on my sixth interview. Pretending to be puzzled, I looked Sam ...
	What You Should Know Before Asking For A Raise by Dan King - Oct, 2010 Now that the economy is starting to simmer and hiring is heating up, you're getting fidgety. You’ve worked your butt off for months; dodged repeated rounds of layoffs and put in double-time to keep the corporate wheels turning. You've stuck it out -- and now it's time for your boss to ...
	From Survival to Revival: Getting Ready for the Recovery by Dan King - Feb, 2010 How high will unemployment go? Has the job market hit bottom yet? How bad will it get? And when will the recovery begin? I am frequently asked these questions – and the answers are not forthcoming. The fact is, “I don’t know.” I do know that there’s no shortage of “doom and gloom”...
	If Ben Franklin Were On Twitter by Dan King - Feb, 2010 I'm sitting in my office answering email messages when I glance out the window and see Benjamin Franklin leaning against a wall talking on his cell phone. I rub my eyes and refocus, but Ben is still there. Have I really been transported back in time? I run to the mirror to see if I'm still...
	Should I Stay or Should I Go? by Dan King - Dec, 2007 It’s Sunday night and you’ve got that familiar “pit in the stomach.” It’s now just another weeknight. Tomorrow you’ll return “to the grind,” begin your long, slow crawl toward “over the hump” day, and trudge along until, “thank God, it’s Friday” again. Sweet freedom. Is this what you...
	Negotiating Dollars With Sense by Dan King - Jul, 2007 Even before the call back for another round of meetings, Brad knew he had aced his interview. As he described it to me later, he was "in a groove.” Everything fell into place. He sounded articulate, bright, downright charming. Clearly, a strong candidate (isn't that what the HR Directo...
	Network, Network, Network: But I'm Not Any Good At It, I Don't Know Anybody, and Other Common Dilemmas by Dan King - Jul, 2007 Networking. Everybody says it's the sure-fire fastest way to a new job. If you know someone who knows someone who knows someone, so it goes, you'll get to the hiring manager more quickly and cut through the search process in no time. Networking has been promoted as, by far, the most effect...
	Overcoming Overload From Overwork: An Overview by Dan King - Jul, 2007 As a student...some time ago, I can remember predictions by respected scholars and forward thinkers that advances in industrial automation and labor-saving technology would supplant the need for a 40-hour work week by the turn of the century. Leisure studies programs blossomed on campus...
	Rants On Losing (and Finding) a Job by Dan King - Jul, 2007 A little courtesy, is that too much to ask? Apparently, yes -- and nowhere is this more evident than in the job search process. You can spend countless hours, days, perhaps weeks, crafting the perfect resume, tailoring your networking pitch, grooming yourself for the big interview -- o...
	It's Time To Get Serious About Your Career by Dan King - Jul, 2007 I love January. In contrast to the hot, humid "dog days" of August, the cool, crisp air gets me really cranked up about the potential and promise of the coming year. I’ll finish my book, trace my family roots, pick up my guitar again, knock two inches off my waistline. Hey, watch me go. T...
	Defining a Generation: Tips for Uniting Our Multi-Generational Workforce by Dan King - Jul, 2007 Our American workplace has become a playing field of competing viewpoints and values as four generations -- Silents, Baby Boomers, GenXers and Echo-Boomers -- share the same workspace. Living cubicle-to-cubicle, office-to-office, we daily navigate unknown cultural territory, where clashes ...
	Show Me The Benefits by Dan King - Jul, 2007 If you've explored health insurance options lately, you know that medical coverage costs "an arm and a leg" -- and that's presuming you've met the huge deductible and forked up the co-pay. To further add insult to injury, once you've sacrificed your body parts, you'll need your insuran...
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