The best advice I ever got from a career counselor was to approach my job search like it was my full-time job. I was about to graduate from college and venture off to a new city to make my fame and fortune (okay, truth be told I made neither fame nor fortune), so I scheduled […]
If you have recently landed a new job — congratulations! Now it is time to turn your energy from making a good impression in your job interviews to making a good impression on the job. How do you do that? Here are six suggestions that take a page from President Obama’s playbook on this most […]
Today Americans are celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, so I am — not surprisingly — thinking about dreams. I’m not talking about dreams of paying off the credit card and taking a vacation dream. I’m talking about long-term visions for yourself. What would you be doing and where would you be living if money […]
The current economic recession (or wait, are we calling it a depression now?) has caused forced a lot of retirees to go back to work. The uncle of a friend of mine is 63. He has been retired for a year, but just went back to work last month as a bagger at Trader Joe’s. […]
If you are a college senior, you are entering the most glorious semester of your educational career. You are riding high, about to graduate and start the next chapter of your life. And in the meantime, you get to enjoy enough collegiate-style entertainment to last a lifetime. Perhaps you know you are going to graduate […]
Happy New Year! With 2009 right around the corner (29 hours and counting), it’s high time to give some thought to your New Year’s resolutions. If you are looking for a job, no doubt finding gainful employment is right up there on your list. But are you doing everything you can to maximize your job […]
Last week, I talked about the importance of keeping the course during your holiday time job search. And while that advice is true, it does not take into account just how hard it is to follow. ‘Tis the season for joy and light, but when you are in the middle of a protracted job search, […]
My local paper ran a story in the Sunday edition about job hunting during the holiday season. It got me thinking. Their job expert said good job hunters know that there is no such thing as a holiday break when you are looking for a job. She suggested that there are two reasons for the […]
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