My Kidney Stone and Your Job Search
Part I: Back Story A couple of years ago, when I was working at BambooHR, I had an immense pain in my belly/back/gut. I hoped it wasn’t something life-ending like …
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Election Results and 100% Unemployment
There are a lot of big questions waiting to be answered over the next few months, based on whoever wins this unprecedented election between Biden and Trump. One of the …
“Do The Thing!”
“DO THE THING!” My eleven year old son asked me to watch The Last Airbender series with him. It was one of the most brilliant series and animations I’ve seen. …
Question: How Do You Move Up The Ladder?
My Twitter friend from the UK, @itsamatar, asked me this: I’m inspired by your journey from intern to VP to MG and wanted to get your advice on how to move …
Reputation Question: When your reference is BAD
I have a great question from a friend and JibberJobber user, I’ll call him [Name Redacted]. His question: Jason, I have a less than great reference. The issue is that …
Introducing The 6 Week Job Search Program
Hey, so I’ve been crazy busy spinning all my plates… that is, I have a lot of things I’m working on, each of them are like plates spinning on sticks. …
An Embarrassing Tale and Career Lessons Learned from My $20,000 Mistake
A few years ago my wife and our found ourselves in a whirlwind of a few months as we surprisingly packed up our house and moved. Wow. That statement summarizes …
Job Search Tools or Job Search Tactics?
I’ve recently seen two posts on social media talking about resumes that struck me as odd. One was from a job seeker talking about how much time and effort you …
The Confident Job Seeker
In 2008 I wrote my first book on LinkedIn. Within a year or two I was in Minneapolis speaking at a few job clubs. Minneapolis (the Twin Cities area, really) …
Pluralsight Course: Prioritizing Tasks and Managing Time for Greater Productivity (version 2)
Today another course update went live, for my Prioritizing Tasks and Managing Time for Greater Productivity Pluralsight course. I have now created, or done major updates, on 40 courses for …