Initial Housekeeping Make sure your resume is grammatically correct, up to date, and complete with relevant company and educational information. A good rule of thumb is to limit your resume to one page—two at the most—and keep it in chronological order. Start with your most...
Read MoreOur personal and professional lives are all about rhythm. No matter who you are or what you do, we all understand the importance of timing and how satisfying it is when things fall into place. When things go wrong and, if we’re self-aware, when they...
Read MoreMultiple offers, last minute indecision and reversal of interest, counter offers and the generally mercenary and hostile current recruiting market. While I was considering topics for the second article in my 25th anniversary series of articles, it became pretty apparent that nothing matters if we can’t...
Read MoreFrom The Observer: It never hurts to keep your options open, but once you decide to move on, it’s probably best to just do so. Things haven’t been right at work for a long time. You’ve felt stuck, unappreciated, and underpaid. In fact, it’s been a struggle...
Read MoreFrom US News & World Report: Thinking about using a potential employer's job offer to get your current company to counter and pay you more money? Stop right there. Using another job offer as a bargaining chip may be tempting, but too often, it ends badly. If you...
Read MoreFrom Construction Executive Report: If you are an employed job seeker, you may receive a counteroffer from your employer once he or she learns of your new job opportunity. If you receive a counteroffer, what should you do? Although some employer’s may react to your resignation by...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: How does a person get to be the boss? What does it take for an ambitious young person starting a career to reach upper rungs of the corporate world — the C.E.O.’s office, or other jobs that come with words like...
Read MoreGoethe gets it right on commitment: "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back – Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely...
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