LinkedIn – Your Work, Your Way

You Know In-Person Networking Can Help Advance Your Career. But You’re Still Not Doing It.

October 15, 2025October 10, 2025 by candacemoody

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.

Target the Company, Not the Job

August 19, 2025August 18, 2025 by candacemoody

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

Why The Hidden Job Market is Hidden

April 23, 2025April 22, 2025 by candacemoody

One mistake many jobseekers make is assuming that every open job is posted somewhere. It’s easy to assume that if a company has advertised eight open jobs, they have eight open jobs, right? In fact, some of the best, highest level jobs never hit any job board. Here’s why. First, a definition. The “hidden job … Continue reading Why The Hidden Job Market is Hidden

Dance Videos and Career Opportunities: Gen Z is using Tik Tok for Their Job Search

February 19, 2025February 17, 2025 by candacemoody

According to Zety’s latest Gen Z Career Trends Report, a striking 76% of Gen Zers (born between 1997 and 2012 )rely on Instagram for career advice—more than twice the number using LinkedIn (34%). 95% of Gen Z say a company’s social media presence impacts their decision to apply, with 48% citing DEI initiativesas the type of content … Continue reading Dance Videos and Career Opportunities: Gen Z is using Tik Tok for Their Job Search

What Your Resume Can’t Do

July 30, 2024July 26, 2024 by candacemoody

When you’re in a job search, it’s easy to believe that it’s a game of numbers. The more resumes you send out, the more applications you submit, the better your chances, right? Nope, for two reasons. The first is that sending out dozens of applications feels desperate and looks desperate. If your goal is quantity … Continue reading What Your Resume Can’t Do

Tips for Successful Boomerang-ing

March 19, 2024April 16, 2024 by candacemoody

In a previous post, I wrote about the boomerang employee trend. Returning employees make up an estimated 25% of all new hires over the past couple of years, according to HR surveys. The 2020 pandemic caused millions of workers to re-think their careers. Now that the world has returned to (mostly) normal, many of those … Continue reading Tips for Successful Boomerang-ing

Hottest Job Categories for 2021 According to LinkedIn

January 26, 2021January 21, 2021 by candacemoody

Each year, LinkedIn analyzes its massive member database to see what job roles are experiencing the most growth. The job site recently released the results of its research of growth between April and October 2020. The results are grouped into categories that will be expected to see high growth over the course of this year. … Continue reading Hottest Job Categories for 2021 According to LinkedIn

Start your Job Search Now

May 18, 2020May 6, 2020 by candacemoody

Everything feels strange right now, and the future is almost impossible to predict. If you’ve been furloughed or laid off, you may be feeling like there’s no hope of finding a new opportunity until the pandemic is under control. It’s true that the New Normal won’t look like 2019, but job seekers who get a … Continue reading Start your Job Search Now