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Source: Harvard Business Review Check out the LABOR DAY RESET and get 25% off coaching and all guides with code RESET25. You can find all details here: https://www.elitecareersolutionsllc.com/labor-day-reset. Harvard Business Review published research that names something most finance and business professionals in their 40s have felt but rarely heard described accurately. A CEO of a large global company told a leadership meeting that his organization's burnout problem was no

Source: CNBC Check out the LABOR DAY RESET and get 25% off coaching and all guides with code RESET25. You can find all details here: https://www.elitecareersolutionsllc.com/labor-day-reset. CNBC published a piece on a question that derails more interviews than almost any other. Why did you leave your last role? Career expert Erin McGoff, who wrote a book on professional communication, says it is the question people struggle with most, precisely because the honest answer and

Source: Business Insider Check out the LABOR DAY RESET and get 25% off coaching and all guides with code RESET25. You can find all details here: https://www.elitecareersolutionsllc.com/labor-day-reset. Business Insider published a piece from Dominic Imwalle, a career coach who works with mid-career professionals pursuing roles above $100,000. The article is built around two questions he tells every client to ask at the end of an interview. The questions themselves are worth

Source: MSN Check out the LABOR DAY RESET and get 25% off coaching and all guides with code RESET25. You can find all details here: https://www.elitecareersolutionsllc.com/labor-day-reset. MSN ran a piece on why bosses are firing Gen Z workers at higher rates and what behaviors are driving the frustration. The article goes through the usual list. Gen Z sets firm boundaries, wants frequent feedback, questions hierarchies, prioritizes mental health, and expects meaningful work

Source: Business Insider Check out the LABOR DAY RESET and get 25% off coaching and all guides with code RESET25. You can find all details here: https://www.elitecareersolutionsllc.com/labor-day-reset. Business Insider published a piece that brought together two voices on the question of AI and work. Peter McCrory, the head of economics at Anthropic, wrote that by considering all available data, AI has caused no material increase in unemployment to date. His read is that the

Source: Business Insider Check out the LABOR DAY RESET and get 25% off coaching and all guides with code RESET25. You can find all details here: https://www.elitecareersolutionsllc.com/labor-day-reset. A special note from ECS. As we return from Labor Day, let’s all reflect on the spirit of the holiday, which includes taking time off and recharging our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. With that in mind, we hope this Newsletter will reinforce that reflection. Busine

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Source: Business Insider Business Insider published a piece featuring Matthew Siegel, a principal in Korn Ferry's executive search practice who interviews multiple senior candidates every day for roles ranging from private equity-backed companies to Fortune 50 corporations. He is also a former C-suite executive himself, which means he is evaluating candidates with the experience of someone who has sat on both sides of the table. The five mistakes he identifies are worth under

Source: Business Insider Business Insider published a piece featuring executive career coach Loren Greiff, who works primarily with professionals over 40. The central argument is one that most experienced professionals need to hear, even if it is not what they want to hear. Greiff's observation is that smart, credentialed professionals get stalled in their careers and their job searches not because they lack capability, but because they are running on an outdated operating sy

Source: The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal sent a reporter to a $4,000 executive retreat in New York's Hudson Valley this week. The people who attended were not struggling professionals. They were a bank vice president, a marketing director, a hospital executive, a technology entrepreneur, consultants with Ivy League credentials and decades of high-performance careers behind them. They had done what they were supposed to do. They had the titles. They had the comp

Source: The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal ran a piece on LinkedIn profiles that actually get people hired. The framing is around job hunters, but the more important point is buried in the second paragraph. Even if you are not actively looking for a new role, an effective LinkedIn presence has become essential in most fields. If you are ever hit with a layoff, it is better to have a sharp profile at the ready than to attempt an emergency makeover. That last line

Source: The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal covered a study that puts a number on something most finance and business professionals have either experienced personally or watched happen to someone around them. Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers before their peak earning years, going at least five years without a meaningful increase in pay or position. The study tracked 1.3 million mid-career professionals across industries since

Source: The Wall Street Journal This one is a little different from the typical ECS newsletter. It is still about career and professional development, but it has a personal dimension that I want to be upfront about before getting into it. I work remotely and have a full-time executive job. I also have two young kids. I built ECS in my “free” time, in part, because I wanted something that could generate income on my own terms without adding a third job's worth of time pressure

Source: The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal reported that major U.S. companies are starting to hire again after more than a year of holding back. Companies ranging from railroad operators to technology firms have told investors they need more people, not fewer, to meet growth goals and to work alongside AI tools that turned out to be less capable of replacing humans than many executives had assumed. The CEO of the staffing firm Robert Half told the Journal that AI

Source: Heidrick & Struggles Heidrick & Struggles released a report on CEO succession planning at Fortune 500 companies. The headline finding is striking. More than a third of companies currently have a CEO whose capabilities do not match what the organization needs to succeed over the next two to three years. Only 25 percent of leaders said they treat CEO succession planning as a priority. One in three companies have no metrics at all for evaluating whether their succession

Source: The Wall Street Journal I can't believe Newsletter 13 landed on a Friday; the stars were aligned this week! The Wall Street Journal published a labor market analysis that is getting attention for what it says about new graduates. The more important story is what it says about credentials in general. Honestly, these stories and their stats are changing by the day, just like AI. The piece examines unemployment and employment data for young workers and finds that college

Source: Fast Company Fast Company published a piece built around a framework from the CEO of Box that is worth understanding clearly, because it cuts through most of the noise around AI and careers in a way that actually holds up. The argument is this. When you watch AI handle a task, you are almost always watching it take over the first 80 percent, the heavy processing, the repetitive structure, the volume work that takes time but not judgment. The last 20 percent is where t

Source: The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal reported on a survey of roughly 1,500 executives that produced a finding most people did not expect. Companies that are using AI most extensively are not cutting entry-level hiring. They are increasing it. Nearly three times as many executives said they were bringing on more junior talent in 2026 than scaling back. The reason is straightforward. AI is absorbing the rote administrative work that used to occupy new graduat

Source: The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal ran a follow-up column to a recent graduation advice piece. The framing is aimed at new graduates, but the underlying lessons apply to finance and business professionals at almost any stage of an early career. Three of them are worth examining more carefully than the article does. The first is about brand obsession. The column makes the case that working for a recognizable company name can actually stall development if t

Source: The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal published a piece on how accounting professors are scrambling to rebuild their curriculum around AI. One detail in it stood out more than the rest. A professor at the University of Central Florida recently added a new chapter on AI to an auditing textbook he co-authored. He told the reporter that within six months, he may need to rewrite it again. That is not a story about textbooks. That is a story about the pace of cha