Oh, happy job hunter, your search has ended! Your tenacity, ingenuity, professionally written resume and cover letter, and savvy interviewing techniques have paid off. After what seemed an interminable search, and despite stiff competition, you have landed the job and are about to let your breath out. Our advice is: “Don’t!” Don’t take for granted […]
Old Dogs Learn New Tricks
As God is my witness, I once dated a man who admitted on our first (and consequently, last) date that his goal in life was to become a professional student. When I asked him to clarify this oxymoron, he explained that he’d hoped to achieve the highest level of education and continue to pile on […]
Starting Over
 To be perfectly blunt, the economy looks bleak.  American manufacturing jobs sold to foreign corporations, a flailing stock market, and companies paring staff down to the bare minimum: none of this paints a rosy future for job seekers. Those who are pragmatic will craft alternate plans as their idealistic counterparts search desperately for employment […]
A Team Effort – Not!
It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes only one individual to land a job — and that individual is the job seeker. If this concept seems elementary, as the old song goes, “It ain’t necessarily so.”  Recently downsized job candidates as well as those who have been pounding the pavement […]