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Unconventional Approaches Often Produce Positive Results

Attributed to comedian and entertainer Emo Philips is the paraprosdokian “When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.  Then, I realized God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.”  Undoubtedly funny, Philips’ comment should provide a revelation to unsuccessful job seekers employing traditional […]

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Job Hunting Tip: Use the Summer Season to Leverage Your Employment Opportunities

Summertime and the living is easy; that is, unless you happen to be unemployed and searching for a job.  In that case, you are tortured and your level of anxiety grows daily. In job hunting and recruiting circles, it has long been axiomatic that the periods between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day and between Memorial […]

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Resume Formats and Job Hunting Strategies: One Size Does Not Fit All!

As the economy totters on a seesaw weighted heavily on the losing end, job hopefuls continue to flood the market.  Armed with current resumes and persuasive cover letters, and pursuing Internet and direct networking techniques that are beginning to bear fruit, many candidates take a false step at that crucial, pre-interview stage.  They request that […]

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Your Job Search: Hunting for Big Game?

Commanding officers and enlisted service people in every branch of our military often strategize and live by an interesting and sound concept whose adage advises, “If you want to eat an elephant, eat it one bite at a time.”  Unless stranded on the African veldt or the jungles of India with the barest of supplies, […]

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Reinvent Yourself: More Job Hunting Inspirations from Taylor Hicks

Several years before Taylor Hicks was crowned the 2006 American Idol winner at the famed Kodak Theater, it was a much smaller stage that he claimed in his native Birmingham, Alabama.  In a venue called The Open Door Cafe, Hicks and his band mates tossed up a mixed salad of classic-bluesy rock and Southern rock, […]

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Making Lemonade, Chapter Two: Getting Up Off the Couch Before You Ever Land There

The process of confronting one’s own termination can be rather similar in its phases to the loss of a loved one.  This is especially true of employees long embedded in their career with one particular company.  The immediacy of disbelief is followed by a sense of betrayal, engendering the next stage, which is anger:  itself […]

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