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Taking My Own Advice – The Job Search, Part 2
In the last installment of this piece I told you about all the things I had gotten wrong in my job search. As I said, it was a learning experience. Thankfully, however, I wasn’t wrong about everything....
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Opinions are Like Cover Letters – Everybody Has One, and Most of Them are Wrong
Ah, the magical cover letter. We slave over our sentence structure, we toil over getting just the right words. We stress over balancing the “what’s in it for me” with the “what’s in it for you”. We...
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Absence Makes the Search Grow Harder – The Stigma of Extended Unemployment
I received the following email from a reader who is concerned about the current state of her job search: “I don’t know if you’ve heard the recent debate/theory over whether companies avoid reviewing...
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How to Stand Out (the Right Way) at a Job Fair
For years, I held onto the notion that job fairs were a complete waste of time for everyone involved. For job seekers it was a waste because you get to meet a bunch of companies that you probably don’t...
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33,000 Career Experts Can’t Be Wrong(?)
I got an email the other day making the claim that “33,000 recruiters can’t be wrong.” The email wanted me to buy whatever it was that the company was selling (OK, the email didn’t want that. Emails...
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