Job Boards are Necessary it’s What You do Before and After That Matters Most
You sit at your computer, log on to your favorite job board, put in your job search keywords, and because your resumé is already uploaded to the site you...
You Get Knocked Down and Get Up Again. Five Reasons You Didn’t Get the Job Offer
You were a promising candidate. The interviews went well but you didn’t get the job. Rejection sucks. It also sucks you’ll likely never hear from the employer as to know...
Ten Rules of Engagement When You Start Your First Professional Job
Your first few years on the job will set the tone of your early career and can jump-start the next few decades of growth and achievement in the workplace....
The Big Interview You Have Coming Up is Simply a Good Conversation
Interviews are an important screening tool for companies. Done well, an interview helps the hiring manager decide whether you’re a right fit for the position and the company. If...
A Changing Workplace Demands New Skills if You Want to Succeed.
Today’s college students and those of you about to enter college, will reshape the workplace over the next decade by both your attitude and use of new technologies. The...
You Won’t Get a Job Offer When You’re Not Heard or Understood and Other Telephone Interview Tips
Phone interviewing is unique. You can’t count on visual stimuli such as your good looks or power suits, eye contact or body language, to aid your presentation. Neither can...
Having a Plan is Sometimes Just Folly, Life has Other Plans for You
I’m not a planner. As much as I like to know what my day and week looks like, and I’m typically the one tapped to plan vacations with friends...
The Post-interview Thank You Email is a Marketing Tool
Like the cover letter, the post-interview thank you email is not dead. Both are musts in a job search. And both are not what they appear on the surface....
How You Answer This Revealing Question Can Determine Your Future
Fast Company has a video series entitled, “What is the most revealing question you asked in an interview?” This month’s feature is with restaurant consultant and Food Network star...
Conducting a Job Search: Why This Outcome Was Inevitable and Avoidable
Over the weekend this post, An Open Letter to My CEO went viral. The now former employee of Yelp/Eat24 Talia Jane wrote the letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman....