Let’s face it: there’s a lot going on right now, and you’re not alone if you’re overwhelmed with all of it, especially if you’re also looking for a job. How can you keep things moving? The first thing to remember is to curate the news you consume. You want to be informed, of…
As anyone who’s been looking for work these days can tell you, it’s a really tough job market! What if, like so many of us, you really need an income, ASAP? Enter the stopgap job! You can also think of these as just-for-now jobs or, as one friend calls them, serving-their-purpose jobs. The…
Whether you’re looking for a new job or not, updating your resume is an important task. I try to remember to give mine a review annually, usually during the first week of the new year, though you can also tie your reminders to things like your birthday, a holiday like Memorial Day, the start of…
If you’re like most people I know, you sometimes feel like a fraud or a disappointment to your loved ones. This feeling is pretty normal, but it’s also absolutely untrue. The truth is that success is a) not particularly linear, and b) something nobody else gets to define for you. That means that your interesting…
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you that I’ve had enough of living in unprecedented times! Give me precedented, give me utterly uneventful. Sadly, that isn’t likely to happen anytime soon, so how can we all survive? One of the biggest challenges is the economic uncertainty that so many of us…
If you’re older than 40, chances are good that you have wondered, at least once or twice, “Are they overlooking me because of my age?” And, unfortunately, chances are also good that they are. So here are some tips so you can get in front of employers instead of getting weeded out before you have…
Have you ever set a goal for yourself and fizzled out? A quick online check will tell you that, according to most measures, only about 10% of New Year’s resolutions actually happen, and I see much the same pattern in the rest of life. Why do we fail to keep these promises to ourselves? Step…
You may have heard about so-called ghost jobs, but what are they and why do they exist? More importantly, how can you avoid them? Ghost jobs are simply postings for fake jobs. In other words, unlike scams, these are job postings from real employers, but there’s no actual job to be had. There are a…
Let’s be honest, staying motivated during a job-search is hard work! Here are tips to keeping yourself going I this long slog. 1. Seek balance. Yes, you do need to find things to apply to, but because that can feel dry and uninspiring some days, add some other options for yourself. You can find old…
If you’re like me, you’re feeling the onslaught of bad news very keenly right now. Being overcome by events makes us unable to focus on our jobs, our job-search, and out personal lives. So how can you navigate saying informed, offering what help you can, and not getting overwhelmed? Step 1 is to curate…