Food for Thought

Fuel for Learning Partnership, a PTA Council Standing Committee, will sponsor the Food for Thought Expo. Scheduled for Saturday, March 27th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm the expo will take place at Fairfield Warde High School, in Fairfield Connecticut. The expo is free and open to the public and will feature a wide variety [...]

2010 – An Opportunity to Practice Common Courtesy

2010 – An Opportunity to Practice Common Courtesy

I recently wrote an article on common courtesy in the workplace that stirred up a lot of opinions from my readers. I had suggested that our upbringing was a factor in how we treated others. Although some of the approximately fifty readers who responded thought that was a partial factor, most felt that the environment [...]

TMI – Too Much Information

I have been giving several presentations on interviewing lately for those seeking new employment. It is imperative to ask the right questions in order to make the best hiring decision, however, many hiring managers are not well trained (if at all!) and this leads to possibly selecting the wrong person who ends up being laid [...]

Seven Minutes of Silence – Why It is Necessary in Achieving Your Goals

Recently I was taking an early morning walk on the beach when I spoke with a man who was reading his newspaper sitting at the water’s edge. Besides discussing how peaceful the beach is at this time of day, he told me that he needed seven minutes of silence a day. As I walked away, [...]

When Life Throws You in a Rainstorm

Today’s blog post is from Beth Carter of Carter Consultants Ltd. Beth is a Fairfield-based career and life coach. Our lives can take unexpected turns and it is not necessarily the event that can affect us as much as our reaction to it. Last week I was asked to speak at a career workshop at [...]

Summer is a great time to work on your life plan

Summer is a great time to work on your life plan

Summer officially started over the weekend although this weather doesn’t feel like it. This is the perfect season to reassess your life before the start of the new school year. I always felt that even if you do not have children that right after Labor Day is a time for a new beginning versus New [...]

Trends in recruiting

Good news is finally happening in the executive search world! Execunet, a leading executive talent firm, states that “executive recruiters who earlier this spring had a much more negative outlook are now clearly seeing signs of new management hiring by their client companies, amid signs that economic conditions have stabilized and more companies are looking [...]

Building your professional network

I would like to welcome Beth Carter to the writing team at HeyFairfield. Beth is a local Certified Professional Coach and runs Carter Consultants Ltd. She’ll periodically drop in with an article about career development and job searching. Beth can be reached at www.carterconsultantsltd.com In this market, job seekers need to be much more proactive [...]