Remember back when you were in high school trying to decide what you wanted to be when you grow up? Ok, maybe you asked yourself that last week. Either way, many of us chose or change a job or career based on what our parents, friends, or career advisors say. For others like me, you …
It’s all about hiring trends and job search! Welcome to 2022 and a hiring landscape like we have never seen before. To start the year off, here is my list of job search topics, hiring trends, and areas to consider if you are tackling a job change, resignation, or complete career pivot in 2022. Before …
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Does the idea of sitting home alone sending out thousands of generic cover letters and résumés sound like your idea of a good time? Probably not. Plus, only focusing your search on online applications does not speed things along. Fortunately, many of the top job search methods are quicker and a lot less tedious because …
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For many years one of my main roles with Kelly was to prepare the America’s region finance and accounting staffing teams monthly hiring outlook and hiring data. I don’t know how many PowerPoint decks I compiled, but we lived and died by that information. As you are probably aware, across news and media outlets, the …
Video interviews are here to stay. Whether it’s Zoom, Teams, Google Hangouts, one-way video interviews like Spark Hire, the technology is here and how a candidate reacts to it can make or break their interviews. If you want to give an outstanding video interview and get to the next step, I implore you to take …
Alternate Title: I’m Probably Going to Scare You As I was thinking about a title other than “How to Get Ready to Work With a Career Coach,” the lyrics for “Oops I Did It Again” ran through my head. See, there was a certain new client call I had recently that’s inspiring this post. Once …
Working from home is a great problem to have. For people like me, because of the lack of structure, it’s freeing to be home calling your own shots. However, as time goes by the isolation may end up leaving us feeling less professional and a little out of touch. Because of self-imposed rules that don’t …
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I’m not going to be the Career Coach who tells you that cover letters are the best thing ever and you have to send one off to everyone. No way! Not me! I am going to teach you how to write a cover letter – while we both just admit right now that cover letters …
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I love working with my clients who are returning to the workforce after a break. I know it seems daunting to anyone faced with the proposition of how to get back in the workforce, but if you are focused, savvy, and open to networking, there are opportunities out there. Read on for a few of …
In another blog I alluded to interviewing a recruiter before you start working with them. There are great people out there, but there are a lot of green recruiters out there who are great at email and uploading résumés into applicant tracking systems, but they don’t really know how to move forward and aggressively or …
