Career/Job Advice Archive
Don’t get me wrong; planning is highly recommended and when it comes to many things – like running a business for example – action without planning is planning to fail. But sometimes being open to whatever comes your way can …
Feel anxiety and nervousness heading just thinking about going to a job interview? Much of that anxiety is really centered around the stress of willfully putting yourself in the situation of being questioned, evaluated and judged. I mean how often …
Suppose I were to ask you to name three or four strengths you have that are work-related. Now I start timing you. How much time would you need to do this? If it takes you 5 seconds to do this, …
The wrong way to conclude your interview is to answer, “No” when you are asked if you yourself have any questions you might like to pose to the interviewer(s). After all, they’ve just spent 30 minutes to an hour or …
Although the term, ‘active listening’ is not new, unless you are familiar with it, you may not really fully understand or appreciate in full what it is and more importantly why it’s so important. Active listening is a technique used …
Sometimes the advice we get can initially sound like the person giving it really doesn’t understand the problem. Take for example the situation where you are out of work and struggling to even get interviews. Your every waking moment is …
At some point during a job interview, you may find yourself being asked some version of the question, “Why do you want to work here?” Hopefully you’ve thought about that long before it gets asked of you and you’re on …
A major source of frustration for some people is firing off a resume to an employer, waiting for the phone to ring and hearing nothing. I hear this complaint quite often from job seekers I speak to. My normal response …
I want to preface this piece with an appeal to lay aside any of your own prejudices you may have about single parents. There are many people who find themselves raising a child or children on their own who believed …
There are two ways to avoiding getting stuck; one is to plan ahead, and the other is to take a different course of action once you are stuck so you don’t continue to remain stuck and can proceed. Consider just …
