I think it’s fair to follow up a few days after you apply to a job to ask a few questions and elaborate on your excitement and interest in the job. This is one of the main things you can do to get the hiring manager to give your resume a second look. You can … Continue reading
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Can Your Credit Score Hurt Your Job Search?
Will prospective employers look at credit scores and/or other financial information and if so, how much weight will they give it (especially in this economy)? I know this comes up for certain types of employers (financial services firms, accounting firms, banks, and often the federal government) of for certain types of jobs (especially ones in … Continue reading
Tips for Transition from Private to Nonprofit Sector
A few books have been written about this subject, most notably Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector by Laura Gassner-Otting and The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Jobs for Sector Switchers by Steven Joiner. (My book, Jobs That Matter: Find a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service, touches on this as well). The main … Continue reading
Pick up the phone
Pick up the phone I recently gave away my old futon mattress on Craigslist (thanks, Craig!). Why does this have to do with job searching? I posted the listing in the “free stuff” section. As anyone knows who has ever posted anything in that section, you are immediately inundated with random emails and calls from … Continue reading
The job market is scary. Should I stay in school?
I get this question from time to time. I have to be careful not to get judgmental with my answer, because, ironically, I am a classic example of someone who stayed in school to avoid the job market, and for whom it worked out great. I was an anthropology major as an undergrad, and I … Continue reading
Civil Service Hiring: The State of New York
This post may be one of the longer ones I’ve written because the hiring process for New York State is so different from the private sector process. It is what I would call a “classic civil service” process, in which networking or personal connections will do absolutely no good—and this deliberate removal of any internal … Continue reading
Is Your Job Market Competitive? 6 Ways to Find Out
In one of my recent posts, I came up with a silly scheme to determine how long someone’s job search would last. One of the factors in this four-factor formula relates to how competitive your job market is. This data would pretty useful to have before launching a career transition or new graduate study program, … Continue reading
Applying for jobs is like voting. Do it early and often!
There are two types of job postings–those that are considered “Open Until Filled” and those that have an official deadline. What most people don’t realize is that speed is often of the essence, even for jobs with a deadline. JOBS WITH DEADLINES While it’s true that many employers will only start reviewing applications for a … Continue reading
Overcoming rejection: The Two Poisons That Destroy Your Job Search Chances
The Two Poisons That Destroy Your Job Search Chances There are two kinds of poison that can destroy someone’s job search, both stemming from your reaction to rejection. As most people know, the job search is filled with rejection. (In Richard Nelson Bolles’s classic book, What Color is Your Parachute, it’s described as “no no … Continue reading
A tale of two job-seekers
I recently spoke about my book Jobs That Matter at a major career networking event with over 400 participants, and made connections with probably 50 different people. I was struck by two of the people I met, both job-seekers but completely opposite in their attitudes. The first person, a woman who had years of experience … Continue reading
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