Better Job Search: Lessons from Contractors
I’ve worked with a lot of contractors over the years, and have always come to a conclusion that if a contractor wants to get a job, they simply need to …
Jason Alba
The Rip Tide and Your Job Search
A couple of years ago I was in Hawaii with my family. The perfect series of events lined up so we could afford to go, and we had an added …
COVID Got You Down? Had Me Down!
Whelp. It’s been a while since you heard from me… almost a month. Sorry about that. I am pretty sure I had Covid. I self-quarantined and did some traditional and …
Fear and Overwhelm
I got laid off in January of 2006. The writing had been on the wall for a while but you know, until it finally happened I figured I’d be hopeful …
5 of My Pluralsight Courses I Wish Everyone Would Watch (and why)
I have 36 courses in Pluralsight… kind of. Two are retired and “one” is a 6-session job search course. I started in 2012 with a LinkedIn course and have done …
Should You Have a Portfolio: Regrets of a Single Tweet
Welp. Apparently I tweeted something yesterday that caused a small brushfire on Twitter. Since Twitter has a limit of character you can write, I wanted to take what i’ve learned …
Of Camping and Careers
Two weekends ago all the girls at my house left for a girls weekend, so I grabbed my youngest son and we went camping. It was an epic weekend of …
Internet Job Search Do's and Don'ts
Back in the 1900’s you found a job with the help of a newspaper. I lost my job in 2006 and guess what I did? I went to look for …
Step Away from Your Job Search
I recently wrote a tweet about “stepping away.” This is based on a project I was working on, and getting stuck. I could stare at the screen for minutes… er, …
JibberJobber is 15 Years Old Today!
Well, we did it! What is “it”? Maybe it is just staying alive for the last fifteen years. They say most businesses fail in the first few years… and we …