How’s the job search going? If it’s stalled out a bit, you’re in luck – it’s summertime! Which, unfortunately, doesn’t mean that you can stop looking. But it does mean that you can take a cue from the changing seasons and change something up in your job search process. Let’s start with the schedule. Why [...]
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There’s nothing like awful unemployment figures to make you feel committed to your current job. Not loyal or happy, perhaps, but committed. Who would leave a job when new ones are so hard to find? The problem with this very grownup line of thinking – besides that it’s probably right – is that it can [...]
Yup, it’s tough out there. There are hardly any jobs it seems, for the new college or high school graduate. Unemployment in this demographic tops 25% in some areas, with little hope for improvement, at least for the near future. What’s a young adult to do? Get a job anyway. That sounded kind of clueless, [...]
When I first started career counseling, 25 long years ago, layoffs were still viewed as emergency procedures, to be undertaken only under the direst of circumstances. Companies feared negative publicity for kicking people out of the workplace, not to mention the public perception that they were one step from absolute failure. My, what a difference [...]
If you’ve been looking for work for a while, you might be experiencing a touch of burnout. That’s the stage where you feel exhausted, overwhelmed by the routine or lack of results, or hopeless about reaching an end. You keep trudging because you must, but the hope of achieving a goal has all but disappeared. [...]
Man, it was a long winter. In some parts of the country, the snow fell like something out of a disaster movie, and people got plain tired of the struggle. When you add the endless economic woes and the stalemates over political actions, it can seem like things will never lighten up. If the weather, [...]
I got a call the other day from a client who has been seeking a part-time job in a field she used to work in full-bore. I mean 80-hour weeks, jet-set conventions, the whole nine yards. Then she left to start her family and, nine years later, here she is: a former high-roller who just [...]
I love the New Year. January 1 is my favorite holiday for all the reasons you can imagine: No obligations, no family get-togethers, no gifts to purchase, no fancy dinner to cook. Just a long, lazy day when no one expects to find you home. I also love New Year’s for the clean slate it [...]
