Work, success, and meaning at every stage of your career
Whether you’re early in your career or an experienced candidate looking for your next big opportunity, your resume will be your primary marketing document. Resume advice abounds on the internet; some of it is very good (use strong action verbs, use language that resonates with the company culture and mirrors the position description) and some … Continue reading You Should Hire Me. Here’s the Proof.
If you’re planning to make a change in 2026, adding a side gig may be one of the best moves you can make. I’ve been writing about the benefits of a side hustle for years: more income, more autonomy over when, where, and how much you work, and the opportunity to turn doing what you … Continue reading Turn Your Side Gig to a Full Time Gig by the end of the (next) Year
This probably won’t come as a surprise: employees find it hard to reconcile what their employers say they value and how they act on a daily basis. That’s the takeaway from a new Values Gap Report from Resume Now. The 2025 survey of 1,000 U.S. workers reveals that while most companies promote their work values … Continue reading Workers Say Leaders Don’t Walk the Walk
Rack up another casualty of remote work and pandemic lockdowns: professionals are reluctant to reach out to other professionals, even as 70% say “your network matters more than your resume.” That’s one of the findings of Resume Now’s latest Networking in the New Job Market Report, based on a survey conducted with 1,000 U.S. workers … Continue reading You Know In-Person Networking Can Help Advance Your Career. But You’re Still Not Doing It.
If you’re an employer trying to figure out your employees, your best bet is Tik Tok. If the cool kids are doing it in the office, they’re bragging about it on Tik Tok in a space affectionately known as “Quit Tok.” That’s where the adults in the room first learned about “quiet quitting,” “rage applying,” … Continue reading A Guide to Quit Tok Slang
In a terrific article by Arthur C. Brooks for The Atlantic, he talks about how we humans love to criticize but hate to receive criticism. In other words, we love to dish it out, but can’t stomach receiving it. I believe that’s why internet forums are so popular and so toxic; we can hide behind … Continue reading How To Give Better Criticism – and Take it Better from Others
During my coaching career, I once heard from a jobseeker who had tried out a piece of advice she heard in a jobseeker workshop. She’d had a phone interview with a company’s internal recruiter about 4 weeks previous to the workshop and hadn’t heard anything from the company since. She wrote: “That afternoon, I called … Continue reading Target the Company, Not the Job
(Thanks to my partners at FlexJobs.com for this report.) One-third (33%) of workers said they have lied on a resume or cover letter, according to FlexJobs’Job Search Trends Report. Released July 16, the report surveyed over 2,200 U.S. respondents on their job search experiences to better understand the pressures and priorities of today’s workforce. The workers … Continue reading One Out of Three Workers Has Lied During Their Job Search
Ryan Holiday, who has authored several books based on Stoic philosophy, says that most self-improvement books are focused on how to succeed. But his book titled The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph focuses on how to overcome problems, failures, and other things that stand between us and our … Continue reading Getting Unstuck
In an economy that seems increasingly uncertain, new graduates and established jobseekers alike are looking for a career that has lasting power. Since no one seems to know when (or if) a recession is likely, jobs that hold the promise of being recession-proof holds real appeal. To be fair, every economic downturn creates some career … Continue reading 13 Recession-Proof Jobs
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