Most people who come to this blog are looking for a job and therefore at the mercy of employers and anyone employers choose to do screening and interviews for them. (Including computers programmed to screen in ways that often miss a lot of good candidates.) But some of you may one day at one point [...]
Read More...18 Employer Interview Tips: How To Interview People for a Job (and Still Stay Human)
June 28, 2010 By 13 Comments
20 Things You Can Do To Open Up New Possibilities at Work and Beyond
June 21, 2010 By 10 Comments
Sometimes I like to go back and look at what I’ve written over these past 3+ years (eeek!) since I’ve been blogging about work and careers. One of my favorite posts – although admittedly not my biggest traffic-getter – is about something I call job morphing. Job morphing is a way of taking a work [...]
Read More...Resume Problems: I Keep Trying But My Resume Doesn’t Get Me Any Jobs!
June 14, 2010 By 7 Comments
Who doesn’t want a resume that will get them a job? I’d also like my resume to make me a sandwich and clean my apartment, but odds are that ain’t gonna happen. So why do I bring this up? While a good resume is important, I worry that job seekers are putting way too many [...]
Read More...I Got an Offer…But Why Didn’t I Get the Job Offer I Wanted?
June 7, 2010 By 10 Comments
Readers often want to know “Why didn’t I get the job offer?” Although I wish with all my heart I had an accurate crystal ball to see exactly what happened and what the person needs to do next time to get the offer, that’s a tough question to answer. Many factors on both sides of [...]
Read More...15 Job Search Tips from a Guy Who Just Got a Job
June 1, 2010 By 32 Comments
After looking for a job for well over a year, John finally got a real live job offer – and accepted. As a true testament to endurance (and willingness to go with the flow), he had been interviewing for this particular job for about FOUR MONTHS! And he even had to do a stint as [...]
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