They were rehearsing for a concert, to be performed at five o'clock this afternoon.
Indeed, at five o'clock on a Thursday afternoon, just as I was leaving, a party seemed to be developing organically.
The Five O'Clock Club has developed a couple of exercises that may seem a bit labored but that Wendleton swears by.
"Around five o'clock the policeman knocked on my door and said Martin do you know your car is on fire, " he said.
For advice I turned to Kate Wendleton, founder and president of the Five O'Clock Club, a 32-year-old national career coaching organization based in New York.
Robert Hellmann, 47, like Sheffield a coach with The Five O'Clock Club, says a client of his turned a no into a yes through diligent, enthusiastic follow-up.
"I started work at five o'clock and at about five fifty (17:50 GMT) a police office came in and asked us to clear the bar, " she said.
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The students at Stanford Business School and the job-hopping members of the Five O'Clock Club might have a clear idea of the bargain they strike with employers.
Robert Hellmann, 48, like Sheffield a coach with The Five O'Clock Club, says a client of his turned a no into a yes through diligent, enthusiastic follow-up.
At five o'clock each afternoon, Somerset slips into soft-focus.
The gaffes surrounding such debates have become part of the folklore of American presidential elections ever since Richard Nixon's five o'clock shadow is said to have lost him the 1960 presidential race.
Many foreign tourists stay in that hotel so every morning from five o' clock, I would read English in front of the hotel and a lot of foreign visitors from USA, from Europe, they came.
For her, it's both good business to share a table at a benefit with clients and an enjoyable date night with her husband, a radiologist who "punches out at five o'clock" and is usually free after that.
"The most effective thing you can do to get to your next job is get a sense of where you should be going, " says Win Sheffield, a career coach with the Five O'Clock Club, a career coaching organization.
It is five o'clock in the morning and in a scene that would not look out of place in a zombie film, bleary-eyed youngsters, with fixed stares and many still clad in their night clothes, stagger into a leisure centre in west London.
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Win Sheffield, 55, a coach for the last seven years with the career counseling firm The Five O'Clock Club, says a lot of job seekers forget that one of the most crucial parts of interviewing is convincing the hiring manager that you truly desire the job.
Win Sheffield, 56, a coach for the last seven years with the career counseling firm The Five O'Clock Club, says a lot of job seekers forget that one of the most crucial parts of interviewing is convincing the hiring manager that you truly desire the job.
So far the system -- which uses a parent-set sunrise and moonset calculator, and also features a "Treasure Chest Music Selector" to pleasantly awaken your own little treasures -- doesn't seem to be commercially available, which is kind of a shame, because we know more than a few people who would love to trick their tiny terrors into bedtime at five o'clock on the daily.
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Come fall, Jay Leno will dominate the network, appearing five nights a week at 10 o'clock.
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