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...
Three Steps to Building a Successful Job Search Plan Looking for a job isn’t what it used to be. Today’s job search is an activity that requires organization, planning and scheduling. In fact, one of the most important building blocks of any job...
8 Tips to Up Your Small Talk Game Smartphones help us avoid face-to-face conversations. While technology can help people connect with one another, face-to-face conversations are still as important as ever. One often overlooked, but essential, conversation style is small talk. While it isn’t always easy, people really...
Embracing Employment Gaps and Career Changes in Your Résumé Working for one company for a long period of time or having gaps in employment history does not have to be a deal breaker when seeking a new job or career change. People move in and out of the...
Mom’s Thank-you Notes and Follow Up Turns out, your mother was right! Sending thank you notes is the right thing to do. However, in the job search process it is also required. The benefit in conducting good job search follow up is that it shows great persistence and professionalism. You can use the opportunity to expand, reinforce or...
7 Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview Ok, you landed an interview at one of your top companies to work for! Great job. Now, I’d like to share one of my tried and true interview tips before you get to the meeting—ask strong questions in the interview. Believe it or not,...