Posts Tagged ‘Duncan Mathison’
Happy Holidays – I’m Unemployed
I find news stories during the holidays filled who sadness and heartwarming hope. Sad stories of hardship coupled by heartwarming stories of generosity and courage. Holidays always evoke emotion as we reflect on our priorities (hopefully not being disgusted in the process) and take stock of the past and future.
In addition to a few media pieces, [...]
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Anger Won’t Get You Anywhere
A few weeks ago, Duncan and I published an article called “How to Network Without Sounding Phony, Lame or Desperate” on the AOL/Careerbuilder site. At last count, there were 73 responses, most of them angry, resentful, hopeless and raging. One commentator simply wrote, “Blah, blah, blah, blah.” How’s that for effectively moving the conversation forward [...]
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What to Do When You’re Flat Out of Friends
(This post is based on some of the principles included in the new book, Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough which I wrote with Duncan Mathison. For a free sample chapter, click here )
If you’ve been following my posts, you’ll know that I’ve been writing [...]
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Really Crappy Advice — And How To Keep It From Killing You
In recent weeks I’ve been watching events unfold in Sedona — that whole James Arthur Ray thing and how people died in an ersatz sweat lodge. I suppose for many people, a terrible event such as this (where people paid $9,000 for the privilege of dying a horrible death, surrounded in the gloom by their [...]
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Are You Too Shy to Network?
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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How to Give Good Luck a Leg Up
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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Why the 1-2-3 of a Typical Job Search Does Not Add Up
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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Locked Out by a Factor of “Too”
Job seekers – all job seekers – have, or at least believe they have, some vulnerability that they feel gets in the way of their ability to get hired. Under qualified, over qualified, too old, too young, too ugly, too pretty, wrong color, wrong name, wrong town – the list goes on. It is not [...]
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My Job Search is Running Out of Steam
Job searches run out of steam for a number of reasons and this economy requires searches to have staying power to deliver results. To reenergize a search it helps to understand where most people’s searches are usually the weakest.
Here are the common momentum killers:
Lack of Job Listings: If you are only applying to posted jobs [...]
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