| While more people are finding employment, more | | | | reason many people decide to go into business for |
| employed workers are discontent and experiencing | | | | themselves is because this transformation has not yet |
| frustration. In most cases it can be boiled down to four | | | | occurred. Despite the problems inherent in |
| factors: feeling undervalued, unappreciated and | | | | entrepreneurship and lingering world tensions, being |
| powerless, and world events.You can possess a | | | | able to express your creativity to the fullest and having |
| tremendous amount of creativity and skill, but if you | | | | greater control of your destiny speaks well to the |
| aren't given opportunities to utilize and express these | | | | self-employed scenario.We should not give up looking |
| qualities to their fullest, frustration can quickly set in. For | | | | for ways to mitigate employee frustration. The larger |
| most employees, there is a huge differential between | | | | effort can engage us in the process of relating to one |
| what they can bring to the table and the responsibilities | | | | another with greater respect, trust and honor. Then we |
| they have been given.It's rare that you hear of | | | | can begin the transformation in our professional and |
| someone working a forty-hour week. These days, fifty | | | | private lives to that which is profound and |
| and sixty-hour weeks have become commonplace. | | | | wonderful.Copyright © 2005 TopDog Group All |
| What hasn't changed is your compensation. Working a | | | | rights reserved.David Richter is a recognized authority |
| sixty-hour week yet getting paid for forty can feel out | | | | in career coaching and job search support. He has |
| of balance. It's certainly not conducive to feeling | | | | spent many years in recruitment, staffing, |
| appreciated.If you are a manager, this may sound | | | | outplacement, counseling psychology and career |
| familiar: You are given responsibility over a project and | | | | management spanning most industries and professions. |
| direct reports, yet you have not been given the | | | | David founded TopDog Group in response to the |
| authority to produce positive change. As a result, you | | | | needs of job candidates to have a higher quality of |
| feel powerless. It's similar to being the commander of a | | | | career coaching and support available on the Internet. |
| ship with tremendous responsibility, yet not allowed to | | | | David understands the mechanisms for success. He |
| enforce any rules or have any control over the | | | | has formulated specific strategies anyone can use to |
| environment.World events have a pronounced effect | | | | secure interviews and receive offers. His extensive |
| on our emotions and the way we tend to approach | | | | knowledge and experience sets David apart in this |
| life. It's been said that a butterfly flapping its wings in | | | | field, allowing him to offer a wealth of information and |
| one part of the world affects life around the globe. | | | | a vast array of tools, resources and strategies not |
| We are all interconnected. To look at the current state | | | | found anywhere else. He has shown countless job |
| of increasing discontent and frustration among | | | | seekers how to differentiate themselves and leverage |
| employees everywhere as an isolated event may not | | | | their potential to the highest possible level, making a |
| be an accurate reflection of reality.A transformation is | | | | real difference in their careers. David holds both a |
| needed in the way employers view (and respect) their | | | | Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering |
| employees, and in the shaping of world events, for | | | | and a Masters of Arts degree in Counseling |
| change in employee frustration to occur. A prevailing | | | | Psychology. |