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Kathy is available as a featured career expert for articles, videos, podcasts, blogs, summits, and/or speaking engagements - see some examples, below.
Rebuilding Your Career
After a Move to Quit
Returning to work with the same bosses and colleagues you were ready to abandon can be a minefield. Your reputation may be dented and your career stalled. Colleagues may be wary, or resentful, if your boss offered you a prize assignment to stay.
Working a room takes
lots of work
“Networking has always been important,” said Kathy Robinson, career and business coach at TurningPoint Career and Business Consulting in Arlington. “But this year it is practically impossible to get a job from inside your house responding to listings on job boards.”
3 Reasons to Secure Your Portfolio Career
Boston-based executive coach Kathy Robinson sees plenty of her clients stumbling into portfolio careers accidentally. Some may be dabbling in something new—and find they really enjoy it. Others have lost their primary job, and they’re looking to take on new work in their field…
FULL MEDIA LIST
NBC: Career Coaches Offer Help During The Great Resignation
CNN: How to Get a Reference When You’re New to the Job Market
Career Addict How to Break Into the Hidden Job Market
LinkedIn Blog Guest Post: Why LinkedIn is High Octane Fuel for Your Job Search
SmartBear:Software Quality Matters Blog, January 2014 When You Get a Counter-Offer: Should You Stay or Should You Go?
HubSpot Guest Blogger: Are You a Player or a Spectator?
Mendix, the App Platform Really Great Ways to Ruin a Job Interview
Boston Globe Money & Careers How to Leave a Job Without Burning Your Bridges
Chase Technology Consultants Landing a New Job Can Be… Stressful
Boston Herald Is That a Great Workplace?
Boston Globe Career & Money Big Help Career Makeover: Refining a World of Experience
Boston Globe Remote Control (Tips on Working from Home)
HP Input-Output How To Find A Resume Pro
Boston Globe Career & Money Try Temp Jobs to Get Started in a Field
Boston Globe’s Career & Money Big Help Extra Training Helps Workers Stand Out
Examiner.com The Top 10 Ways to Network Effectively
CBS (WBZ-TV) How Not to Act Old
Boston Globe Career & Money Changing Jobs in a Tough Market Requires Legwork
Boston Globe Career & Money Career Makeover: Generalist Needs to Get Specific
Boston Globe Career & Money Lack of Courtesy in Job Search can be Daunting, But Don’t Give Up
Boston Globe Career & Money Turn the Story of Your Disparate Job History into an Asset
CNN Money Relocating for Work, but Telecommuting from Home
Boston Business Journal Working a Room Takes Lots of Work
SheKnows.com Ways to Make the Most of Your Layoff
AOL Jobs/CareerBuilder Less Pay, More Job Security
The Ladders Tuning Your Resume to the Right Keywords
CNN Money Hired! New Job, New State, New Start
CNN Money Hired! Thanks to Friends
Also quoted as a career expert in career books:
The Art of Networking: Leveraging Traditional and Social Media Strategies to Get Hired, by Yusuf Wilson, 2011
The FabJob Guide to Become a Career Coach, by Jennifer Fishberg, 2010
Wall Street Journal: How to Renew Lost Career Motivation
Wall Street Journal: Unhappy at Work? Try Hacking Your Job
Wall Street Journal: Rebuilding Your Career After a Move to Quit
Monster.com: 5 Traits Employers Want Younger Workers to Have
Considerable Yes, You Can Still Get Promoted at Age 60
Monster.com How to Assess Your Career Skills in 6 Easy Steps
CNN Money Featured Career Coach: How to Get a Job in 100 Words or Less (Advice)
CNBC: 60% of Women Say They’ve Never Negotiated Their Salary- And Many Quit Their Job Instead
Forbes.com Anchor, then Sail: 3 Reasons to Secure Your Portfolio Career
NPR (Radio Panel Interview) Green Careers, Biotech and Job Creation: Is Massachusetts Poised to Lead the Recovery
Korn Ferry: How to Keep Those Promises (What Happens if You Don’t Get What Was Offered)
TIME.com: How to Steer Clear of a Toxic Work Culture
Money Magazine: How to Answer the “How Much Money do You Make” Question?
Korn Ferry: Rethinking the Workaholic
Huffington Post: Your Toxic Boss: A Survival Guide
Money Magazine: 5 Ways to Get the Career Skills You Need
DollarSprout: 5 How to Make a Good First Impression the First Day at a New Job
Korn Ferry: Meetings: The Ultimate Time Suck
Korn Ferry: How to Keep Up Your Self Esteem While Job Hunting
Boston Globe, 8 Unspoken Rules of Celebrating Valentine’s Day at Work
Korn Ferry: The Art of Electronically Praising a Colleague
Dice.com Confronting a Co-Worker Who Undermines You
Korn Ferry: Recovering from a Mistake at Work
Life Reimagined (AARP) Back to the Grind After Being Your Own Boss
Life Reimagined (AARP) Don’t Lose Your Identity When You Downsize Your Job
Life Reimagined (AARP) Self-Check: Is Your Career on Autopilot?
Life Reimagined (AARP) Your Business Partner is Letting You Down
Life Reimagined (AARP) Accepting a Controversial Promotion
Life Reimagined (AARP) How to Downplay an Embarrassing Job
Life Reimagined (AARP) The Upside of Getting Fired
Inside Story with Ray Suarez, Al Jazeera America (TV Panel Interview) Job Numbers Rise but with Hidden Costs
Lifehacker: How to Deal With a Manipulative Coworker
AARP Work@50+ Resumes and Cover Letters
Boston Globe No More Mr. Mom
Boston Globe Tips for Dads (and Moms) Returning to the Workforce
ABOUT KATHY
A transformative executive career coach, speaker and thought leader, Kathy Robinson elevates, refreshes and amplifies the professional identity and career potential of executives within their workplaces and industries. She helps leaders shape and share their unique, authentic leadership story, voice and vision, translating into better long-term career opportunity as well as higher professional visibility and impact.
Named a US Top Ten Career Coach by CNN Money, Kathy is the President and Founder of a career coaching platform called TurningPoint, where she oversees a network of 100+ career coaches who serve job seekers through group and one-on-one career coaching. In addition to leading TurningPoint, Kathy provides strategic, differentiated career coaching directly to executive clients.
Through her deft blend of strategic career management, marketing insight and understanding of the executive-level job and board market, Kathy leads executives through the process of discovering and building powerful executive branding and messaging that delivers high impact and return for job searches, board role searches, internal promotions and/or industry-wide thought leadership platforms.
Prior to launching TurningPoint in 2004, Kathy held a number of Human Resources and recruiting leadership roles across a range of companies and industries, helping shape leadership, culture, training, employment, and employee relations programs that propel and advance talented professionals. She has built career programs, internal and external personal branding workshops, and succession planning platforms to identify and nurture leaders of the future with targeted training and career opportunities.
Kathy has been featured as a career thought leader across many media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Business Journal, Boston Magazine, The Boston Globe (as their Career Makeover Expert), CNN/Money, CBS, NPR, Forbes and Time, as well as many podcasts.
Kathy consults with many emerging companies as a business mentor and is an active volunteer and advisor for numerous community groups. She holds a BA in Sociology from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. She resides with her family in the Greater Boston area.
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