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"Create a smarter career path to better Mondays."

Consider:

• Future knowledge workers will have 10-to-14 jobs by age 38, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

• More than half of U.S. professionals have been with the same company for less than five years.

• Today, our schools are preparing students for jobs that will not exist by the time our children enter the workforce, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

• About 25 percent of the population in China with the highest IQs is already greater than the entire population of North America.

Feeling the pressure? To stay ahead of the curve, professionals must develop winning career and job-transition strategies. BetterMondays explores the ways today's workers can regain control of their jobs, lives and careers with strategies for controlling professional ambiguities and making smoother job transitions in a volatile business world. BetterMondays provides a thoughtful, challenging and sometimes humorous look at topics such as job searching, interviewing, networking and the fine art of making great first impressions with and ever-changing cast of peers, bosses, recruiters, contacts and employers.

BetterMondays is made possible by Jobfox, the Web's only job site that introduces and connects qualified professionals to compatible employers. The Chief Career Evangelist for BetterMondays is Steven Toole, who also serves as the Vice President of Employer Marketing at Jobfox.

BetterMondays wants to hear from real professionals and their career-transition stories. Corporate recruiters are also invited to provide insider tips on what works and what doesn't. Finally, BetterMondays will provide weekly chronicles from Jobfox CEO Rob McGovern, now on his second startup mission after successfully founding CareerBuilder. No one is sure why Rob isn't on a boat in Boca somewhere, but he claims to have a passion for helping people get ahead. In addition to making waves in the online recruiting industry, Rob is a pilot, cyclist, noted speaker and author of Bring Your "A" Game: The 10 Secrets of the High Achiever.  He recently appeared on the cover of Personal Branding Magazine.

While Rob is a regular, BetterMondays will call on a host of experts -- including corporate recruiters -- for opinions and comments on smoothly navigating life in the fast lane and avoiding accidents.

3 Comments

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  By Peter Bourke, February 25, 2009 @ 2:16 pm

  Great content - thanks for taking on this topic - there's far too many who struggle with their work.

  Peter

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  By Robin, April 4, 2009 @ 6:59 pm

  That's interesting to read that a person may have 10 to 14 jobs from graduation to age 38. Then the next bullet reads jobs will be held less than 5 years on average.

  So then why do employers make such a big deal about job hopping? Why are they such immature babies at times, like when they say, "You'll leave when something better comes along"?

  If you really want to have an impact beyond Blue Mondays to Better Mondays, how about really helping reconstruct the employer/employee relationship? Yes, the one that author Joanna Ciulla says continues deteriorating as layoffs continue escalating, adding to that 10-to-14 job count.

  Making sense out of professional career transition can be done. I hope you can do something to rectify this us-versus-them mentality between employers and candidates. It's especially possible when some hiring managers realize they can become candidates again, voluntarily or otherwise.

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  By Jerry Colatrella, June 21, 2009 @ 12:44 am

  The very people who ask if you will leave a job only after a few years are the first people to do so when the opportunity arises.

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