Are You Ready For A Career Storm?
Do you have a career emergency kit in the eventuality of a storm? If you find yourself in a ditch, how will you get out? Do you have a toolkit of job search resources and a network of people to help...
View ArticleCareer Truth or Dare!
Here's a thought exercise for you. Once you identify the truth about your career, dare yourself to quit! Dare yourself to get fired. Dare yourself to get promoted. Dare yourself to ask for a raise....
View ArticleYou’re Fired! A One Person Show.
Directors will often give notes to actors to help improve their performance and contribution to the show overall. Be your own director, and give yourself notes. What events led up to your termination?...
View ArticleAre You Synchedin With Linkedin?
Linkedin has become particularly useful for job seekers. I highly recommend anyone looking for work to add Linkedin to their job search arsenal. You may find your next opportunity through networking on...
View ArticleReferees Call The Shots
Depending on the employer, references can wield enormous influence on the final hiring decision. And, if you don’t choose and prepare your references carefully, they can blow the whistle on some...
View ArticleResolution Redux
So it’s already mid-February. Do you know where your new year’s resolutions are? Are you inching toward your goals for the year? Or have your resolutions, career and otherwise, started to slip away?...
View ArticleShow Me The Money!
It's not that job seekers are necessarily insincere when they suggest that the opportunity is more important than the money. When they say it, they likely mean it. There's a certain hopefulness that...
View ArticleGet Interview Gold
Interviews are indeed set up as a competition. Candidates are being judged on a number of elements, compulsory and otherwise. This includes technical skills as well as style and deportment. However,...
View ArticleTop 10 Mistakes Job Hunters Make – Step 1: Getting Started
You may be eager to start pounding the pavement, or you may be stuck in a rut. You may be currently working or you may be unemployed. Whatever your frame of mind and whatever your situation, while...
View ArticleWorking With Recruiters
With over 25 years in this business, I speak from experience when I say there's a way to work effectively with recruiters. Many people, unfortunately, do not know how to do this. So I'm going to tell...
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