5 Steps To a Better Job Search
5 steps to a better job search: there are dozens of macro or micro steps… this is what I’d say is most important for people as we wrap up 2021. …
Jason Alba
Better Job Search: 7 Lessons from Contractors
I want you to have a better job search and I think there’s a lot to learn from people around us. In this post I want to talk about better …
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 Soft Skill Courses I Wish Everyone Would Watch
I have 36 soft skill courses in Pluralsight… kind of. Some are “retired” and one is a 6-session job search course. I started in 2012 with a LinkedIn course and …
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 Dont’s
This post is about internet job search do’s and dont’s. You’ll find that whether you are doing an online job search or focusing on offline, many of the ideas here …
Step Away from Your Terrible, Frustrating Job Search
If you are in a frustrating job search fear not: you are not alone (even though it feels very lonely). I recently wrote a tweet about “stepping away.” This is …