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LinkedIn: Staying Safe & Achieving More through Professional Social Networking

When you apply for a job, or a recruiter/manager reaches out to gauge your interest in a new opening, what's the first document you're asked to provide? If you answered a résumé, you would be right about 80% of the time. What’s the second document you're asked for?...

How and Why to Track Job Applications & Networking

One important reason to track job applications as well as who you are networking with so that you can identify patterns or trends. For example, if you are applying for a variety of types of positions and you are getting a lot of responses for one type but not a lot of...

Thank You For Your Interest. Thank You For Your Time. The Role of Gratitude in Job Searching.

During the typical job search, we say “thank you” quite a bit. We thank each other for our time, interest, and consideration. We start emails with “thank you for meeting with me,” when what we really mean is “Please let me demonstrate for you how much I want this...

Answering the Interview Question, “Tell Me About Yourself.”

This is one of the most commonly asked interview questions, whether it is a screening interview with HR, one that you do with a robot, over video, or even as the final interview they will often ask you to tell them about yourself. There is a structure for this...

One Sheet: What it is and How it Helps You Ace an Interview

One Sheet: What it is and How it Helps You Ace an Interview If you go into Google and search for examples of resumes, what's going to come up are these really pretty documents that are really structured, contain graphics and are presented in a way that is usually not...

Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero: How to Soul Search while you Job Search without Losing the Search for Your Sanity

I have a confession. I’m not much of a Swifty. Never tried to get tickets to her concert. Haven’t seen the movie. I do, however, have a T-Swift hoodie. (Mostly because I bought it for my 9-year-old and it came drastically oversized.) However, the song Anti-Hero did,...

How This Mindset Speeds Up Your Job Search

In my previous blog post, I mentioned that a growth mindset can be good for your job search, so preparing to develop a growth mindset can help you along the way. I promised you another blog specifically on growth mindset and job searching. This is that blog – I know...

Preparing for Growth

Whether you’re seeking a promotion, transitioning careers, or looking to start a side hustle, setting your sights on the future is exciting – and perhaps a little scary. It’s also likely that when you’re planning to grow, you’re primarily focused on the tasks required...

Great Work-Life Balance Isn’t the Goal

As a career coach, one of the questions I’m often asked is how to bring up work-life balance in an interview, and I’m not quite sure which concerns me more: the fact that my clients are thinking about work-life balance or the fact that they are afraid to bring it up....

Why You Might Want a Dedicated Google Account for Job Searching

Job searching is a job in and of itself!  Whether you’ve been actively or passively looking, you know that from filling out applications to adjusting your resume for different positions, job searching can be time-consuming and frustrating. Fortunately, there is a...

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