I was watching NY1 right after a friend asked how to go about finding a career she can truly care about and hopefully even love – rather than just lots of jobs strung together. While arguably, sometimes jobs strung together can be the basis of a career, there on NY1′s New Yorker of the Week [...]
Entries Tagged as 'career advice'
To Discover Your Dreams, First Discover Yourself
July 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Career, Career change, Dream jobs
Tags: career advice·careers
20 Things You Can Do To Open Up New Possibilities at Work and Beyond
June 21st, 2010 · 10 Comments · *Job search, Career, Career change, Career development, Inspiration, Temp jobs
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 [...]
Resume Problems: I Keep Trying But My Resume Doesn’t Get Me Any Jobs!
June 14th, 2010 · 7 Comments · *Job interviews, *Job search, Cover letters, Resumes
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 [...]
Tags: career advice·job search advice·job search tips·jobs·resume
Does Size REALLY Matter When It Comes to Your First Salary Offer?
May 24th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Negotiating salary
I’ve watched new graduates trying to figure out how to negotiate salary requirements for their very first job after graduation. For many new grads dealing with the size of an offer (did I ask for too much? did I ask for too little? how much salary can I ask for? should I even try to [...]
Tags: career advice·salary negotiations·salary offer·Suze Orman
7 Career Pros Give Great Advice and Tips for Job Search 2.0!
March 8th, 2010 · 14 Comments · *Job search, Creative job search
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about just how much job search techniques and job search tools have changed over the last few years. It’s a whole different game now. With that in mind, I decided you might find it useful to have an advice overview of things you need to know about Job Search [...]
Tags: career advice
My List of 20 Favorite Career and Job Interview Help Blogs
August 5th, 2009 · 13 Comments · *Job interviews, Career
Let’s face it. There are plenty of good career blogs and interview help blogs out there. And there are also plenty of stinkers. In no way is this meant to be a comprehensive list of all the good ones – just a list of a few of the best career sites I’ve found in my [...]
Are You Too Stupid to Know You’re Being Stupid?
June 17th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Career, Co-workers, Working smart
I was amused by a study explaining why stupid people continue to think they’re smart. Stupid people, it claims, cannot see how stupid they are.
Tags: career advice·Forrest Gump·work
Do You Think of Yourself as a Failure?
April 7th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Career, Career development, Health & Stress Mgt, Inspiration, Job interview tips, Working smart
I know someone I’ll call Theresa who to me is a real success – career and otherwise. She lives her life based on her own thoughtful and caring values. During her career, she’s worked on issues she cares deeply about and always gives of herself as fully as possible, especially when it comes to helping [...]
