Sometimes It’s Not Ageism, It’s Economics “It’s ageism!” This is the response I get when I ask senior-level job seekers why they think they are experiencing challenges in their job search… when they never experienced trouble before. “I am doing everything that I used to do that worked and now it’s just not working” is […]
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Why Just Updating Your Resume Isn’t Enough If you keep updating your resume by simply adding on to it (instead of being strategic with your positioning and branding) then you not only end up with a very disjointed Franken-resume, but you end up leaving tens of thousands of dollars on the table. A comment I […]
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The Worst Resume I Have Ever Seen Will a recruiter think you have the worst resume they have ever seen? Will they think you are marketing yourself poorly and then second guess wanting to represent you?
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Job Search Now or Wait Until January? An employed product manager reached out to me saying their job was in jeopardy. He asked me if he should start his job search now or wait and see if his job was actually going to be eliminated.
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Job Landing Magic: Get Hired During the Holidays A good friend of mine posted on Facebook that she had perfect sweatshirt weather at the beach recently. Going to the NJ shore during the off-season is truly one of my favorite times during the year. The beach isn’t flooded with summer beachgoers trying to take advantage […]
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The First Step to Job Landing Success Attitude is everything in a job search. It really is. I recently had a job seeker named Mark reach out to me to ask, “My observation is that if you don’t have a foot in the door the resume doesn’t make a difference. Is that not true?”
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