I often work with people who tell me all about their efforts to connect with hiring managers and other key decision makers when they’re applying for a job. Unfortunately, this effort is largely a waste time and energy because a) hiring managers aren’t willing or able to pay attention to every person who reaches out…
Things are so fast-paced these days! There’s an online hack for everything, everyone talks about efficiency, and we expect results yesterday. I get tired just hearing all this stuff. Which isn’t to say that I don’t sometimes get caught up in it. You probably do, too. If things aren’t happening within moments, we can…
Slow times when you don’t have a job are SO SLOW! It’s scary and frustrating, and in the midst of all this, it’s very easy to let your self-care side. But taking good care of yourself isn’t an indulgent luxury. It’s even more essential when things are difficult because you aren’t getting that important…
This is one of the questions I’m getting a lot these days. Why ARE employers increasingly asking for 6 or 7 rounds of interviews? Why do many people get asked to do giant projects before even one round? What the heck is going on out there? The answer, as you might guess, is that…
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…