Networking Primer

Kathryn Crawford Saxer Career Management

I don’t know what they teach kids in college these days, but it sure isn’t the basic professional survival skill of networking. The Seattle Times selected Trevor, an out-of-work Millennial, as a “career makeover” candidate for a feature in the NWJobs section of the Sunday paper. And the Seattle Times selected me as a “networking expert” to coach him on networking, and specifically LinkedIn, to develop his career. The following is an executive summary I prepared for the journalist writing …

Foop Foop, Part 1

Kathryn Crawford Saxer Career Management

A favorite coaching client is playing small. She’s a top performer, professionally driven, highly capable – “But anybody could do what I do,” she says. This is a manager who gets top performance reviews, has a staff that would follow her anywhere, is widely respected and admired and liked – and who wants to play big. “What does that mean that anybody could do what you do?” I asked. “I don’t want to seem conceited,” she said. “I don’t want …