Helping You Reach Your Job Search and Career Goals
Scams that prey on job seekers are everywhere. Some that pretend to be legitimate organizations can be hard to detect. One I have been seeing quite a bit in my inbox recently is the fake LinkedIn invitation, so I wanted to take some time to address it. Below is a screen shot from a real [...]
A client recently sent his résumé to a contact he developed. Upon not hearing anything back after a week, he asked me: “Should I contact [name] again?” The answer to this question really depends on how the follow-up is framed. Let’s look at the scenarios: Scenario 1: You send out an email to your contact [...]
I was saddened to hear of the passing of motivational speaker Zig Ziglar yesterday. Here are just a few of his quotes that get you thinking about how you approach the management of your career: About attitude “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” This is common sense that a [...]
Last week, I attended the annual summit held by Career Directors International, a professional organization of which I am a member. My kids were not so sure about me being gone for several days, my five-year-old son in particular. The day before I left was hard for him. He had issues at school and it [...]
In my last blog post, I talked about workplace bullying, which is experienced by 35% of American workers. What if I told you there was another kind of bullying that folks face, one that is more pervasive? Sadly, virtually everyone is a target of this bullying. What’s worse, everyone is also a perpetrator of this [...]
