Posts Tagged ‘Martha Finney’

TMI! Scan Your Resume and Applications for Door Slammers

by Martha I. Finney

TMI! Scan Your Resume and Applications for Door Slammers

You know that a letter to an advice columnist is going to be good when it’s signed, “Anonymous.”  Personally, I’m thinking that if you feel you must hide your identity, you pretty much already know the right answer. You just want to go the other way.
A couple of weeks ago I was reading the Ethicist’s [...]

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Really Crappy Advice — And How To Keep It From Killing You

by Martha I. Finney

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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If You’re Worried About Acing the Job Interview, You’re Barking Up the Wrong Tree

by Martha I. Finney

If You’re Worried About Acing the Job Interview, You’re Barking Up the Wrong Tree

It’s hard to be choosy these days, isn’t it? It’s hard to hold onto hope and high standards for what kind of job you’d like to ultimately land when you’re surrounded by messages that the job market world is coming to an end. Buy into the terrible headlines that people are losing jobs right [...]

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