What To Do When Your New Job Sucks
A friend of mine just asked me this question: “My new job is not going well. The culture is not good, the expectations are different than what I was led …
Joe Job Seeker
JibberJobber Is Relationships: Job Search, Gig Economy CRM, Just Networking
Liz sent an email this morning to JibberJobber users quoting my blog post from 2016. This was from an email that Steve Krum wrote with feedback about JibberJobber. You can …
The Great 2019 Texas Career Management Tour! July 15th in Austin and Dallas
I am going on a road trip this summer… and what better place to go in the summer than Texas! I hear it’s a lovely time of the year! For …
What To Do If You Hate Your Job: There’s More Than 1 Way to Change That
Do you hate your job? If you hate your job you are not alone. I was chatting with Liz this morning about Project HOPE (what became the Job Search Program), …
The Nervous Job Seeker: Do It Anyway!
I need to tie up my post from Wednesday (The Job Search Interview Process Is Full of Emotions!) and my post from Thursday (The Job Search Program Better Than Sliced …
The Job Search Program Better Than Sliced Bread
A bit of history on this “better than sliced bread” phrase. There was once a time in history that was so horrible where people were so deprived, that they had …
Job Search Interview Emotions: 2 (of many) Challenges that can Cause a Meltdown
I recently had a job interview and went through the frustration of job search interview emotions. Bleh! I know, I know. I’m not supposed to interview for jobs. I run …
What To Do When Interviewers Don’t Know What They Are Hiring For
Last week I was talking to a friend of mine, a senior technical recruiter. We were talking about a scenario like this: You read the job description and think: Yep, …
The Lie of the Best First Step in the Job Search
My friend Jacqui Barret-Poindexter recently wrote this on Facebook: In #jobsearch, so many of us want to say, ‘this or that’ is the best 1st step in order to conduct a …
Another Tactic To Quantify Your Cultural Fit and Soft Skills
Yesterday I wrote How To Quantify Your Cultural Fit And Soft Skills. I shared a simple tactic that is just one piece of the puzzle to help people understand that …