Category Archives: job search help

Surviving Unemployment: Take care of you.

How frustrating it is when you want a cold glass of milk, but someone before you took it all.  The carton is empty.  When it’s gone, it’s gone.  Nil, zip, zero.   No matter how much you want it, there is nothing there.  You can squeeze and squeeze, but you won’t get anything.  The same is […]

Surviving Unemployment: Be a people person.

Last week I introduced my upcoming series of blogs about coping with your job loss. This week I will tell you how being a people person will help you endure the wait until you land your next job. I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, therefore I cannot give you […]

Surviving Unemployment: When one door closes, another opens.

When one door closes, another one opens.  Or so the saying goes.  If you are like many job searchers, you are thinking that if you had one dollar for every time you heard that, you wouldn’t have to look for another job.    Waiting for the other door to open is a slow process requiring much […]

Declare your freedom from your past job.

It’s the 4th of July weekend.  And we are celebrating our independence as a country from another country that was interfering with the path we wanted to follow.  We needed to rid  ourselves of the ties that were holding us back in order to be free to pursue our goals.  It was a difficult fight […]

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 […]