Category Archives: getting a job

Intuitive Personal Assessment “A Career Self-Assessment Tool”

This blog is written by my friend Paul Rega.  He is the author of an exciting new book titled, “How To Find A Job When There Are No Jobs”.  In this blog, Paul writes about the Intuitive Personal Assessment which I endorse for anyone looking for a career whether you are a high school or […]

What World Class Athletes Can Teach Job Searchers To Achieve Success.

Have you ever seen a world class athlete before their event?  If you have, you might have seen them with their eyes closed and head moving.  What they’re doing is not some weird superstitious ritual before competing.  They are performing their competition in their head.  Every movement their body will make is pictured along with […]

Surviving Unemployment: Write your way to happiness.

Remember the first days of the school year with your new notebooks and new pens?  You couldn’t wait to start writing with them.   And when bored, you doodled with those pens on the notebooks with curlicues, lines, arrows, hearts or anything that came to mind.  Now is somewhat different.  Instead of doodling we use the […]

Surviving Unemployment: Free is the key.

Free is the key or what your public library can offer you.  Free events keep you sane and your budget on track.  After you found out you were laid off, one of the first things you did was look at your budget with a hatchet.  Anything not vitally necessary was the first to go.  Next, […]

Eight Job Search Tips for the Dog Days of Summer

While others are enjoying the lazy, hazy days of summer thinking that no one gets hired in the summer, nothing could be further from the truth.  It may take more patience but if you remember the story of the tortoise and the hare, you know that the one who  continued on even though progress was […]