Adele Scheele

If you've left your college campus but still don't have a job, consider these strategies to get you in the door of your new career. You won't be able to do it alone -- nobody does. You will have to start risking engaging with others to help you find leads...

Turning points arrive after crises, when we feel lost or are grief-stricken. Turning points are experienced as a sudden awakening -- an epiphany that directs us to the True North on our internal compass, spinning us to destinations that later we call our destiny. Only then do we embrace them...

Even though you possess talent or technical ability, having and honing is not enough. Here are six critical, transactional success skills to stimulate your most meaningful and fulfilling career.

1. Exploring: Most of us remain a prisoner of our obligations instead of listening to our instincts. A necessary step...

Graduation is just around the corner. Here are some gratifying things to take advantage of before you don your cap and gown.

1. Reach out to the professors, advisors, deans, and club sponsors who have made an impact on you over the last few years and thank them. Tell...

Women don't get as many raises or earn as much as men, and I feel it's largely because we don't ask for what we deserve in the first place. Instead, we buckle down to do better work, waiting to be recognized instead of stepping up. The fact is...

Career and job fairs offered by your college are a free and valuable resource to you. Go. Sure, it's called a "fair," but it is business -- serious business.

Recruiters pay money to attend these events because they need to recruit candidates -- students like you. They want to...

A young, beautiful, talented and experienced woman failed yet another interview in her second year of job hunting. She did not know how to do better because she didn't have a clue about why it was happening to her in the first place, time after time. What went wrong? Were...

For some companies, the usual Monday morning meeting is becoming unusual. It is revamping itself, becoming a stand-up, short-lived check-in. For those who still endure the old sit-down conference table version, the format is unbearably predictable: the boss unceremoniously starts the meeting by reading the agenda, reciting the latest sales...

You've been waiting for this day for so long -- a big promotion, award, or accomplishment! You thought you'd feel on top of the world, but for some reason, you don't. Not only are you not in any celebratory mood after you've realized this achievement, but you notice that you...

As a candidate for a job, boost your success rate by figuring out who and what the interviewer is seeking. Give up the idea that an interview is a test where "right answers" are the ones given by experts and "wrong answers" cause you to fail. There is no perfect...

So, you're no longer the young one on your team at work. Time speeds up so suddenly that after a decade or two, you find that you are working for or with others who are closer in age to your children than they are to you. And the longer you...

Moving, as anyone knows, is one of the top stressors -- along with family death, divorce, or the loss of a job. Having experienced them all, I have often thought that I'd become more practiced, maybe even immune to their emotional toll. But quite the opposite happens; it gets harder....

In these tough economic times, we need something to spur us on. Our own American exhortations -- Yankee ingenuity and "where there's a will there's a way" -- can be used to ignite the holiday heralding of the possibility of renewal. Renewal forces you to confront your own situation.

You are either going to be busy up to your elbows cooking the bird, or driving somewhere to eat it with family or friends. Either way, you probably have mixed feelings about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. No surprise. Like all of us, you are thinking about yourself. Have you gained...

When you think of visual artists, you expect them to be working from flashes of inspiration, totally expressive, struggling and poor, sometimes even stoned or promiscuous. You don't expect profound thinking, great discipline, political activism, guerrilla training for protégés, and the creation of new techniques. You don't expect someone like...

Your investment of time, hope, and money is about to pay off -- even in a still terrible economy, when your kid may prefer heading to graduate school over facing a still-tight job market. Take heart: employment is up a bit, according the latest National Association of Colleges and Employers...

Creating your own business is the latest slogan in this unemployment quagmire. But even if we want to, we don't know how to switch from being an employee to an instant entrepreneur. Made by many, this transition is often deceptively easy, like any great art. Let me share the back...

For my birthday in December 1976, my late husband, Sam Scheele, took me to New York City for dinner at the great Midwestern architect Minori Yamasake's renowned World Trade Center. While I had heard about these immense twin towers, I had no idea what looking at them, each 110 stories...

The junior year is when college turns serious. Most colleges require your child to choose a major and stake a claim in a future career. For some of you, declaring a major will be an obvious step for your child, one you hope to agree with. But for too many...

As a parent, your job is to help your child use college as a laboratory to discover his or her interests and develop a full set of academic and life skills.

In the freshman year, your child began the process of learning to separate from you, get oriented to...