Category Archives: career coaching

The Job Search isn’t a One Fits All Process

Find a job today is like trying to hit a moving target.  The rules keep changing.  The people involved in the hiring practice don’t all agree on what is standard throughout the job search world.  What’s a job searcher to do?   Job searchers today must understand the status of the job search at this […]

5 Job Search Features on Your Smartphone.

If your smartphone is so smart, why can’t it get you a job?  Well it can with instant information, no more phone tag, and lets you know when you should be doing something.  Who knew that you can perform all this with one compact device?  The only problem is you have to remember to keep […]

Twas The Night Before Christmas of the Job Searcher

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was working, not even the mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes they wouldn’t show the wear and tear. The children were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of ipads, Abercrombie and Fitch danced in […]

How to be Jolly and Unemployed During the Holidays

 T‘is the season to be jolly. Or so the song goes.  But if you are unemployed at this time you are adding more stress to an already stressful time.  But it doesn’t have to be.  There are ways to cope with the season.  I have provided some suggestions for you to choose from as not […]

Networking tips for introverts, the shy, and socially challenged.

It seems that the road to success is networking.  It can be career suicide if you fail to network in this day and age.  Everyone is doing it and needs to do it.  But for many, networking is more painful than anything imaginable.   For introverts, shy people and/or socially challenged, it doesn’t mean the end […]