Career Advice Archive
Think for a moment about the candidate selection process for a job opening in a company. Traditionally, a company advertises, receives applications, creates a short-list to interview, interviews, checks-out references, makes an offer to their leading candidate and then hires. …
All over the internet you’ll come across people – and I am one of them – who will prompt you to enlist the services of a professional Job Coach. Whether you pay this person, they provide their services for free, …
Pick up a good book, and if you are like the majority of people. You start to picture in your mind what the character looks like, largely because of the information provided. Interestingly enough, the image you envision is different …
Today on my ride to work, I was as usual, thinking, listening and looking for something to write about in this job advice blog. Sometimes that inspiration comes from outside the windows of the car I drive, and other times …
Have you ever been sitting in the reception area of an office, perhaps scoping out how people dress so you can look like you fit in when you get an interview? Worse yet, you’re actually sitting there waiting to be …
Things I Have To Believe In I feel the urge to share some of the things and people I believe in. I was standing in line speaking with someone yesterday when a young woman walked by chatting with a co-worker; …
Where are You Going? Imagine yourself with your bags all packed, but having no idea where you are going? That would never happen in real life would it? I mean, how would you know what to pack? If you were headed …
SJS is expanding the topics we present and we are very pleased to introduce one of our newest guest writers, Kelly Mitchell, BA who focuses on Career Advice & Employment Counseling. This often overlooked area certainly affects all helping professionals. Career …
More of us will have lost at least one job over our lifetime due to getting fired, downsized, laid off or replaced in some fashion than ever before. When it happens then, (rather than ‘If’ it happens) you might actually …
The side of the desk on which you find yourself, whether it’s as an employee or someone looking for work, really boils down to one very simple thing in the end, and I think it is absolutely indisputable. Now that’s …