
The Best Sites to Find Jobs Looking for job openings online is not my preferred method of landing a job for numerous reasons* – networking is – but reviewing job postings is a great way to explore the “terrain,” helping…

Interesting Survey Results That Contain Valuable Career Insights For Us All A recent article in the Washington Post (September 11, 2022* listed the median expected lifetime earnings of people who’d majored in about 100 different fields. Those who majored in…

What Do You Bring To The Table Over the past months a very large number of visitors to my blog have read a post: “What Do You Bring to the Table.” The post is certainly among the most useful ones…

Jim Weinstein in The Washingtonian Two career coaches talk about what they’ve learned about the job market, making a career change, and what makes people enjoy their work. How To Find Work You Love For Karen James Chopra, an unwanted…
What To Do When the Job Outlook is Grim Ten per cent unemployment. Dozens of applicants for every job. Superbly qualified people willing to take huge compensation cuts in order to regain employment. In the face of these phenomena, it’s no…
Seeking a New Job? Determine Your Niche. Your niche is the place where your background and abilities best align with the needs of your target employers. The fact that there are so many job seekers pursuing so few jobs right now…
Facts May Not Mean What They Say. A few weeks ago I gave a talk to the Forty Plus Club, here in Washington D.C., an organization founded in the 1930s as a support group and training site for workers forty…
From Hopelessness to Motivation to Success On Monday I will be giving a presentation to Forty Plus of Greater Washington. Forty Plus is a national non-profit organization with dozens of local chapters, founded in 1939 to assist older men (it was…
The Value of Internships – Even Unpaid Ones Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article on unpaid internships. In promoting the value of these internships the article concluded that “Employers look for a set of real-world experiences that…
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