Posts by kateogroup
Staying Confident Through Rejection
A client asked me yesterday how he’s supposed to stay confident after the fifth “we went in another direction.” I don’t think he liked my answer. But here’s what I told him. And I told him. You’re not supposed to. Staying confident through five straight rejections in a senior job search isn’t resilience. That’s denial. What…
Read MoreYour Introduction Matters
A senior director called me last month. She’d been looking for six months. 52 applications. 4 interviews. 0 offers. The first thing she said on our call was, “I think I’m just too senior for the market right now.” I hear some version of that sentence almost every week. Here’s what was actually happening: she…
Read MoreYour Resume Doesn’t Get You Hired
In 20+ years of hiring senior talent, the one thing I rarely tell candidates out loud: Your resume isn’t supposed to get you hired. It’s supposed to buy you 15 minutes in a room. That’s it. That’s the whole job of the document. The problem is that most senior candidates treat the resume like a…
Read MoreWhat is Coaching?
People sometimes ask me what a coaching session really looks like. It’s a fair question. “Coaching” is one of those words that can mean almost anything depending on who you’re talking to. Here’s what it looks like in my practice. It usually starts with what the person says they need. Resume help. Interview prep. LinkedIn…
Read MoreSenior Leaders Communication Distortion
There is a communication pattern I see repeatedly in senior leaders and it costs them more than they realize. It shows up in interviews. In boardrooms. In high-stakes presentations. And most of the time, the person doing it has no idea. It’s over-qualification. “This might not be the right answer, but…” “I could be wrong…
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