Well, it’s now been roughly 11 months since we all started our quarantine. How’s yours going? Are you maintaining a semblance of sanity? I’ve been limiting my outings to the necessities: grocery shopping, medical visits, wellness checks for the pooch. In the warmer months, I was able to do some backyard wine visits with friends,…
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Trying to be perfect is a trap a lot of us fall into, but it’s definitely not healthy. Trying to be perfect is a trap a lot of us fall into, but it’s definitely not healthy. Of course you want your application materials to be free of typos and errors, and naturally you want…
DetailsAs the old mindfulness saying goes, don’t just do something, sit there! Plan some days to have no plans.
DetailsLast week I talked a little about taking time away from job-searching, but since I think it’s so essential, I thought I’d say more about it. We humans are natural pleasure-seekers. We like to do things when we know there’s a reward in it, either from the task itself (the energy we get…
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I was reminded this over the break. I took the last week of December “off,” with some actual vacation time planned, as well as some time to get to the tasks done— budgets for the new year, tax info for the old, that sort of thing. On Monday, I had loosely planned to get some…
DetailsAre you intimidated by video interviews? You’re not alone! In order to get ready, start by running a speed test on your internet. That will let you know if your current setup will allow for the interview to begin with, and if it looks like your system doesn’t have the bandwidth, consider finding…
DetailsTired of advice about what you should or shouldn’t wear? Whether or not to smile? How to look “professional”? Me too!
This isn’t the post I planned to write today– that was going to be about interviewing nerves– but I spent the weekend watching “A Bowie Celebration,” a tribute to the man 5 years after he left us, and metabolizing the events in Washington, D.C. And I started thinking a lot about both humanity and why…
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