In an economy as distressed as ours, every iota of positive news is both welcome and fraught with the advice to take it with the proverbial grain of salt. Economists in our nation’s capital have recently released the news that fewer layoffs have occurred in July ’09, since the economy took its worst nosedive last […]
It’s inevitable. Your co-workers have arranged a little celebration for a colleague and have invited you to join them, after work, in a restaurant not far from the office. Whether it is one of your fellow employee’s birthdays, bridal showers, or a small holiday fete, you have qualms about attending.  You’ve only been on the […]
Resist the urge to create a buzz around the workplace by inferring or stating undeniably that you have been wronged, even to just one other person (office gossip spreads like germs at the height of flu season). Trying to coax co-workers into your corner may backfire, particularly if those colleagues respect or genuinely admire your […]
Understand that your immediate supervisor may very well be younger than you are, significantly younger. Degreed with a Master’s and perhaps with a PhD in progress, he commands a higher salary and is (on paper anyway) smarter than you. He is possessed of an attitude of superiority and to add insult to injury, is thinner, […]
Your relatively brief period of unemployment has been an eternity. After an extensive and significant career, you became a statistic: an older worker displaced as a result of this latest and deepest recession. The art of mastering the online job search (“Old dog learns new trick”), the debilitating process of interviewing, and the resultant rejections […]
Your audience, of course, is that narrowing strait of employers and/or academic committees empowered to consider you a candidate valid enough to grant interviews resulting in employment or entry into an institution of higher learning. In order to swim that channel during the screening process, your resumes and cover letters must not only be rich […]
