Helping You Reach Your Job Search and Career Goals
In reading 50 Things You Need to Give Up Today, I found many of them can impact the health of your job search and career. I’ll highlight ten of them that I think are particularly important for you to abandon: “Give up trying to be perfect.” We all know that nobody’s perfect, and yet we [...]
Are your cover letters and résumés peppered with phrases such as “outside-the-box thinker,” “results-oriented,” and “team player?” If you don’t have some facts and stories that demonstrate why that is true, your résumé is likely to hit the circular file. It’s not enough to say that you are the next best thing since sliced bread; [...]
While they say that the economy is slowly starting to get back on track, the fact remains that unemployment is still very high. Combined with the prospect of being jobless in 2010, it can lead some to feel desperate to do whatever it takes to get a job, including lying on their résumés. A while [...]
