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When Trauma Meets Work

by admin | December 24, 2024 | Work-Life Balance | 0 Comments

I have a confession to make. I love the holiday season. Yes, as a single mom with 3 kids, the holidays are absolutely stressful. However, twinkling lights, random acts of kindness, peace on earth, and LOTS of cookies. Well, those things are definitely my jam. (Pun...

Do I Dare Apply for a Federal Job During the Upcoming Trump Administration?

by admin | November 25, 2024 | Job Searching, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Morley Career Solutions has always been a true blue business. We've also helped thousands gain federal employment. Here's our advice about federal job seeking for the liberal professional during the upcoming Trump administration. By Miranda Morley On November 6th, I...

You are enough. Now, do the work you want to do.

by admin | September 23, 2024 | Career Development, Uncategorized, Work-Life Balance | 0 Comments

I got my first resume job with a phone call from a connection of a connection who had found me via Craigslist. "Can you write resumes?" she asked. "I can write anything," I replied. I was a grad student, creative writer, published poet, writing teacher, and owner of a...

LinkedIn: Staying Safe & Achieving More through Professional Social Networking

by admin | March 12, 2024 | Business, Job Searching, LinkedIn, Online Tools, Personal Branding | 0 Comments

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

by admin | December 4, 2023 | Career Development, Job Searching, Networking, Resume | 0 Comments

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.

by admin | November 23, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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.”

by admin | November 10, 2023 | Career Development, Interviewing, Job Searching, Personal Branding | 0 Comments

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

by admin | November 4, 2023 | Business, Career Development, Cover Letters, Interviewing, Job Searching, Networking, Personal Branding, Resume | 0 Comments

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

by admin | October 19, 2023 | Career Development, Personal Branding | 0 Comments

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

by admin | October 7, 2023 | Career Development, Interviewing, Job Searching, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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...