Commanding officers and enlisted service people in every branch of our military often strategize and live by an interesting and sound concept whose adage advises, “If you want to eat an elephant, eat it one bite at a time.” Unless stranded on the African veldt or the jungles of India with the barest of supplies, […]
The process of confronting one’s own termination can be rather similar in its phases to the loss of a loved one. This is especially true of employees long embedded in their career with one particular company. The immediacy of disbelief is followed by a sense of betrayal, engendering the next stage, which is anger: itself […]
What separates job finders from job hunters often comes down to the techniques that they employ in their searches.  While most people are relatively passive about their job search – posting resumes on major job boards and responding to advertised and posted opportunities, some people go the extra mile. They seek not merely to respond […]
Understanding the critical role of online job sites in a serious employment search, and given the plethora of such sites, the situation begs the question, “Where to post your resume?” The most obvious answers to “Where to post your resume?” are the giants whose names, as a result of their scope and longevity, are renowned. […]
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. […]
One of the questions that clients frequently ask me is “how can I conduct an effective job search?” While some of the tools used to conduct a job search today are the same or similar to those used decades ago, much has changed. At one time, an effective job search entailed simply checking the employment […]
