Impressing Employers in a Buyer’s Market (0)
8/25/10 •
It’s still a buyer’s market. Recent Bureau of Labor Statistics show more than 5 times more job seekers than openings. The May Job Openings & Labor Turnover Report showed an increase of nearly 50,000 to 2.7 million available positions in March. That’s good news. Employers are starting to hire again…
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Tips for Online Applications (0)
8/18/10 •
Everyone keeps asking me to write tips on how to complete online applications – yuk!
Finding Jobs Now (0)
8/11/10 •
A strange thing happens when we begin teaching and helping unemployed people to job search… we forget how jobs are actually found…
Balancing Careers & Caretaking – ‘Hope Management’ (1)
8/04/10 •
Increasingly, American adults are managing employment, raising children, and caring for aging parents simultaneously. The Sandwich Generation, we’ve been called…
Getting a Job Now (1)
7/28/10 •
My guess is that you are encountering more unemployed people now that you did a year ago, and that more of them could be considered “difficult”…
Important Lessons We Learn from Difficult Clients (0)
7/21/10 •
Today I am thankful, thankful for the difficult clients I have worked with over years and for the important lessons they have taught me.
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- The 4 Horsemen of Relationship Apocalypse
- Free Will and Motivation
- Settling
- When all else fails…what next?
- No One is Unemployable
- Letter: Resumes with no Legal Work History
- Attitude Counts!
- Technology Rules
- Overcoming Employment Barriers (Part 1 of 4)
- Concerned Objectivity (Part 1 or 2)
- Concerned Objectivity (Part 2 of 2)
- Letter: New job needed due to back problem
- Recycling and creativity
- Move on down the road…
- Letter: Fields of Fascination
- Letter: Long term Goals with Gang Kids
- Did you know?
- A Change in the Air
- Overcoming Employment Barriers (Part 2 of 4)
- Transitions
- Generation Now: Job Search Reflections
- Letter: Back Injury Option
- Overcoming Employment Barriers (Part 3 of 4)
- Overcoming Employment Barriers (Part 4 of 4)
- Swimming
- In a Recession…
- Treasure Hunting
- Motivating “Unmotivated” Clients: Three Stops
- Motivating “Unmotivated” Clients: Three Steps
- 4 Keys that Unlock Side Doors (part 1 of 2)
- 4 Keys that Unlock Side Doors (part 2 of 2)
- Employers are not looking for brightest and best
- Re-labeling
- Dreams
- Developing Good Answers (Part 1 of 2)
- Developing Good Answers (Part 2 of 2)
- Statistics and the forgotten
- Helping Candidates with Felony Convictions
- I Don’t Believe in Pessimists
- Helping Job Seekers with Disabilities
- KISS
- Keep Going!
- Culture Change
- 8 Rules for Successfully Using Hobbies and Unpaid Work to Get a Job (Pt 1/4)
- 8 Rules for Successfully Using Hobbies and Unpaid Work to Get a Job (Pt 2/4)
- 8 Rules for Successfully Using Hobbies and Unpaid Work to Get a Job (Pt 3/4)
- 8 Rules for Successfully Using Hobbies and Unpaid Work to Get a Job (Pt 4/4)
- Mining for Gold in the Dark! Resumes for People with Wacky Work History
- What I’ve Learned from Hostage Negotiations
- Explain This! Developing Good Answers to Tough Interview Questions
- Patterns (Part 1): Fear
- FREE Tool: Common Screen-out Check List (06/09)
- Top 5 Posts of May
- Helping People with Barriers Shine & Save Time
- Client Activity Idea: Resume Keywords
- Hope & Practicality… A Beautiful Partnership
- Patterns (Part 2): Accountability
- The Bricks of Life… and the Glorious Glue that Holds them Together
- “Career Business” changes in Recession
- New Media Section
- Critical Mass in Groups
- Thankful for Lessons
- Patterns (Part 3): Understanding
- Is Career Development A Reasonable Option for Clients with Significant Barriers?
- Career Development for Clients with Significant Barriers: Cultivating Career Resilience
- Career Development for Clients with Significant Barriers: The Creative Job Search
- Top 5 Posts of June
- What’s in a name?
- Patterns (Part 4)
- The “Un” unemployed
- Top 5 Posts of July
- 360 Degree Mirror
- When all else fails…
- I’m a Dinosaur
- Currency
- Intentions
- Snakes
- Job Advertisements
- Stuck
- Transformations
- Brain Strain
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