Originally published February 3, 2015 You’ve submitted more than 200 applications, résumés, and cover letters in the last six months. You’ve made impressions at numerous job fairs. Somehow, though, you’ve been on less than a score of interviews. What are prospective employers missing here? Moreover, what might you be missing in all this? As this…
Originally published January 20, 2015 If you’re anything like me, God forbid, you probably assess yourself as rigorously as your employer does during your #First90 days on the job. I don’t have a system or scale by which I measure the start of every job I’m hired to do. Still, I make it a point…
Originally published January 15, 2015 One of my connections on LinkedIn wrote me to compliment me on what he describes as a unique background. Specifically, he clarified, mine is a long list of diverse job experiences. I’m grateful to him for pointing this out. After he mentioned it, I started looking at my experience a…
Originally published January 7, 2015 I love visiting the offices of the nonprofit and small-business relationships I maintain for part-time income. And don’t worry; relationships are what most businesses call customers or clients. I prefer “relationships” because the other two words are so clumsy. Anyway, whether I’m juggling a full-time job and independent contracts or…
Originally published January 4, 2015 Happy New Year. It’s 2015, and I’m facing new opportunities, new goals, and a new focus for life and work. Still unemployed and seeking the next great employment opportunity on my career path, I am more convinced than ever that 2015 is my year for a fresh start in some…
Originally published December 24, 2014 Do you sometimes feel braggy when crafting your CV or résumé? Do you think you come across as cocky during job interviews? Crazy thing is that in business – and job hunting is your business – it’s not bragging at all. It’s marketing. More to the point, it’s self-marketing, or…
Originally published November 7, 2014 In the life of every great house – let’s just pretend that houses have lives – there are many shifts in furniture, fixtures, accessories, appliances… When my house began its minimalist movement earlier this year, first steps were tiny. Following a visit last evening from an aspiring interior designer (we’ll…
Originally published October 1, 2014 Ever go through one of those slumps that convinces you you’re depressed, only to discover that it’s not depression at all? Since making a tough call about employment and breaking off a potentially amazing friendship before the label even got out the gate, I’ve been tossing around a few emotions….
Originally published July 12, 2014 You know how you always seem to know the perfect thing to say long after the moment has passed? And you mentally kick yourself for not having thought of it sooner because you know that if you say it later, someone will inevitably judge you as slow for taking so…
Originally published July 7, 2014 It happened one Friday. Specifically, it happened Friday before last. In a casual conversation about careers and projects, someone made a remark to me. It’s not important who said it, what was said, how it was said, or even whether it meant anything. Suffice it to say that the comment…
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