I was poking around a few of my favorite job sites this morning, and discovered that a particular company was announcing that it was hiring.  Great! So what’s the problem?  One of my dear friends had just been laid off from that very company not one month ago. Oh.  Ouch. Chances are excellent that candidates [...]

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My friend Patricia Varley is probably the only person I would call a natural networker. Her worldly possessions have been in storage for most of the last 10 years as she goes where her heart tells her to (always beautiful places: Hawaii; Aspen; Naples, FL;  San Diego; hey! Why not?). Jobs and projects fall into [...]

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A client of mine got a verbal job offer but the job will not start until January. What’s going on here? Why can’t he start now? What’s the big deal of a of a months of pay when the hiring manager tells my client that her team is swamped with work and desperate for help?
Simple, this is [...]

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This Sunday the New York Times reported that there were only 2.4 million job openings in July for the 14.5 million unemployed.  This means there is a 6-1 ratio of job seekers to jobs – the worst ratio since the U.S. Government began tracking the data in 2000. To get this number, the Bureau of [...]

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If you’ve been between jobs for, like, an hour, you already know that wishing will get you only so far.   In fact, you might have been wishing that you weren’t on the list of people to get laid off.  So you know better than just about anyone that wishing has its limitations.
Now. Luck. That could [...]

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In London, there is a warning printed on the loading platform of the “Tube” (subway) station.  It says “Mind the Gap” between the platform and the train – a warning to passengers not to trip as they board the train.  When it comes to job search there is another gap that comes up – the [...]

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There are plenty of sad ironies around this current era of layoffs and job losses. It’s hard to just focus on one without feeling woefully inadequate about not covering all the bases. But for the purposes of this article, this is the irony of the day: Being without work gives you an awful lot of [...]

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I read yet another disappointing job search advice column in a special section of this Sunday’s Union Tribune.  It was the same old tripe that gets trotted out and passed off for quality job search advice.
I call it the 1-2-3 of job search.  Which often adds up to a big zero in today’s economy.   It goes [...]

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Not that you need the assist, but let’s make this really simple anyway.  If you were desperately looking for a gallon of milk, where would you go?  To a place where other people who were desperately looking for milk are hanging out?  I’m guessing probably not. You’d probably go where there’s milk. Or at least [...]

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Okay, so I have a quick question for you. Are you a nut? If I gave you this cup right here, would you be able to confidently take it into the bathroom, knowing that the results wouldn’t hurt your chances of a job? How do you blow off steam when you’re tense? If you found [...]

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