To Achieve Your Career Goals: Prioritize
I have a friend who I refer to as ‘my oldest and dearest friend’. We grew up together, got in trouble together, were in each other’s weddings, and is the one I can call for anything. Over the years however,…
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Debunking Career Transition Excuses
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Effective job search shares many characteristics of weight loss. For one, both require patience, sacrifice, time and rigorous, focused effort. Naturally, we resist taking the needed steps to start–and persist in–the strategic action steps to complete the…
How current is that job search advice? | Beware the dinosaur.
Bad job search advice is almost worse than no advice at all. Be careful of people who “should know better” spouting forth last century job search information. Unfortunately, some understaffed, financially stretched college career centers fall into that category. Click…
Steering the Career Change Ship
Whether navigating the passageways of career change, life change … or both, you will need to map deliberate processes to effectively (and sanely) achieve your destination goal. My own (and my husband’s) recent adventure transforming our careers as well as…
Job Seekers: Is Guilt Keeping You in Your Stressful Job?
Employees still working but desperately wanting to find new employment, often feel guilty because they know so many others that have been let go from their positions. Those that are still employed are usually doing the work of 3 or…
Ready. Set. Launch!
I enjoy working with young professionals in my resume practice. As part of the information gathering process for creating their resumes, I ask them if they worked on any team projects or major research assignments. I also ask about campus…
Shades of Gray
As you can imagine, a resume writer is asked lots and lots of questions about how to craft a resume, how to conduct a job search, how to do things career related. Frequently, the “asker” is looking for a definitive…
Job Seekers: How Do You Handle Rejection?
Even in rejection there are always ways to respond that will help you to learn either from your mistakes or just from the situation. Job seekers quickly learn that rejection is a part of any job search. Learning from not…
#1 Job Search Strategy: Give More Than is Expected
If you want to get noticed in your job and in your network the #1 strategy is to give more than is expected from you. You will get recognized for your hard work and people will want to work with…
Have You Ever Talked Yourself out of a Job – and Not Know it?
Many job seekers whether nervous or excited, tend to talk too much during an interview. In some cases it can even cause them to be passed over for the position. Have you ever talked yourself out of a job? Would…