Category Archives: survivng unemployment

Let go and get a job.

When my daughter was young say around 3, she would always say she was a big girl.  She still played with toys appropriate to her age.  At around 9 she honestly thought she was a big girl; she wanted to dress and act older.  She would have preferred makeup and the like instead of toys.  […]

Job Loss Grief: The Unknown and Unacknowledged Emotion

You have either been laid off, downsized, right-sided, made redundant, let go, or whatever they called it, and you feel a wide range of emotions.  Or maybe you don’t feel anything at all at the moment.  All you know is you are now experiencing an unplanned change.  Everything you thought about yourself, your job and […]

Meet a friend of mine, an author with a great book.

Paul Rega is president of a retained executive search firm and a professional recruiter with over twenty-seven years of job hunting and career planning experience. His provocative new book, How To Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs strikes a nerve with millions of displaced workers and goes well beyond the principles of job […]

How to Discover What Is Sabotaging Your Job Search

What are you limiting beliefs? Last week I told that a limiting belief is something that holds you back from living the life you were meant to live.  It is something that you have acquired from many different sources.  The information you believe about yourself is false, but you believe it and trust it more […]

Is Your Job Search Sabotaged?

Sound like you? Do any of these statements sound familiar?  I’ll never get a job.  There are too many people out there looking.  There are no jobs.  I don’t know the right people. The above statements are limiting beliefs.  They are sabotaging many job searchers. Those statements are wrong but seem real to the owner.   […]