For much of January, the gym in my neighborhood is packed. Eating healthier and exercising are among the top resolutions for 2019 — along with finding another job. But I have a wish for you: Don’t change your career search...
COVID-19 and its effect on employment is top of mind for job seekers and employers. The labor crisis is affecting millions of people who were gainfully employed just two months ago and are now applying for unemployment benefits. When industry...
Active duty military spouses face a 24% unemployment rate. And over 31% are working part-time even if they would prefer to work full-time. Though it might sound like these are historic data points, this is current data. Our military spouses are...
It doesn’t take an economist to connect the dots. As a result of the coronavirus, we are in a perfect storm to impede college graduates from landing meaningful jobs upon graduation. Three massive trends are colliding: Many colleges and universities...
What are you waiting for? Newsflash – Nobody cares about your career as much as you should care. If you don’t take control of your next move now, it may just be taken care of for you. Let’s put the...
The importance of a well-crafted cover letter cannot be overstated. A résumé contains the information potential employers need to know about where you’ve worked and what you have done, but they may not even get to your résumé if your...
3 Inevitable Career “Struggles” and How to Learn from Them Everybody’s career will have ebbs and flows, challenges, and opportunities. No matter how great someone’s journey may look on paper, everyone goes through career and business struggles. Even those who...
Get Ready to Job Search in 5 Steps For anyone getting started with the job search process, getting started might be the hardest part. Learn 5 steps you can start today that will help get you energized and prepared for a productive and successful job search. Find Motivation We all learn...
HOW TO STAND OUT ON A PHONE INTERVIEW Although it may seem that video interview technology is all the rage, knowing how to handle yourself on a good old-fashioned interview phone call is still important. Phone interviews and phone networking are on the rise, so it’s vital to develop a professional phone...
Get your Head in the Job Search Game You are finally ready to take the leap: find a new job or try to move within your existing company. Getting to this decision may have been a journey, but what do you do now? Before...
5 Tricks for Online Job Searching Have you ever said to yourself: “There just aren’t any jobs out there; I’ve looked.” One issue could be where you are looking and how you are searching because today there are more online sources than time in a day. The entire job search system can seem overwhelming, especially if you have not...
5 Myth Busters on Getting Help for Your Small Business Perhaps you have discovered that the right path for you at this time is to go out on your own. After 30 years in the corporate world, including over a decade at Microsoft, I made that decision. It isn’t...
How to Make your LinkedIn Profile Shine Let’s face it, in the world of job search, if you are not on LinkedIn, you don’t exist. LinkedIn offers the broadest array of resources to move your job search, and your career, forward. Having a strong LinkedIn profile is...
Learn from U.S. Military Veterans: Get Your Mindset Ready to Compete for a Job Changing careers, industries, companies or geographies can be overwhelming. This is especially true for U.S. Military service members transitioning from the military to civilian employment. An important step for them is to get in the right...
Secrets to Researching Your Next Career Move You all know that great research is a critical step in your job search process. Duh, right? So, why do career coaches, like me, continue to talk about it? It is because we are continuously surprised at the lack of...
Build a Tribe and Shrink the Gender Pay Gap Do you think a company with more women in leadership positions is more likely to offer employees equal pay and have less issues with the gender pay gap? It seems like a natural assumption, right? However, researchers at Oxford University found the opposite to...
4 Reasons You May Not Be Getting Traction as a Leader Even with billions of dollars of corporate investment in training, leaders at all levels can still find themselves in ‘leadership traps’ that only come to light once key performance indicators, revenue or bottom–line contribution start trending in the...
Clean Up Your Social Media for Future Employers While conducting your job search, it is imperative to set yourself up for success. Just as you want to know all that you can about your potential new employers, they are also eager to learn about who you are. One...