One of life’s brutal realities is the loss of employment. Coming to terms with your layoff or termination is not easy. It is particularly difficult when: your pink slip marks the separation between you and a position that you have worked diligently to achieve; you must leave the corporation to which you have given many […]
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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 […]
Resume Writing Tips: Trumpet Your Accomplishments
If your looking to make a career move or find a new job, take a look at these resume writing tips that can help you land the new job that our looking for by having a powerful resume ready.
Career and Life Challenges of Single Moms
Riddle: When is a woman most like an octopus? Answer:  When the woman is a single mother. Every mother fills multiple, evolving positions that include and are not limited to educator, mentor, coach (literally and figuratively), chauffeur, cook, laundress, seamstress, baker of goods for last-minute school fundraisers, confidante, role model, and disciplinarian. Carrying these responsibilities […]
Career Advice: Are You Prepared for the Unexpected?
In the 1978 blockbuster motion picture Superman, Lois Lane falls from a rooftop in New York City. Recognizing her peril, the “Man of Steel” swoops down to catch the falling Lane. “Easy, Miss. I’ve got you,” he says with his trademark grin. “You, you’ve got me? Who’s got you?” replies Lane, looking down over his […]