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Resume Rules for the 2020s
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Candidate Advice
Using Your Layoff to Change Careers
If you’re among the 40 million-plus people in the U.S. who have been laid off or furloughed by your employer, you may...
Landing Your First Job Out of College – During a Pandemic!
Talk about rotten luck! To be a newly minted college graduate in 2020 means you’re headed to job market unlike...
Embracing the Up, Backwards and Sideways Career
Content No one’s career moves straight up. Most successful people see their share of failure and even simple treading water (no movement up or down). Just a few examples of people who failed on their way up: Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper...
Moving from Colleague to Manager
Congratulations on your promotion to manager! Now you’re the supervisor….of your past colleagues! Moving from co-worker to boss can be, well, fraught. No longer can you be true buddies. No longer can you dish on the boss together because, well,...
When You Have to Give Tough Love at Work
No matter if you’ve just become a manager or supervisor or you’ve been serving as one for a few years, there’s going to come a time – perhaps sooner than you think – where you’re going to have to provide some tough feedback to one of your team...
Researching an Employer Before an Interview
We talk a lot here about how important it is to research a potential employer before a job interview. But we’ve never explained in detail about how and why you should do so. Take a look below for why researching an employer is valuable and how to...
‘So, Tell Me a Little About Yourself.’
The following questions are so common, there’s no chance you’ve never heard them in a job interview: “Tell me about yourself.” “What’s your biggest strength/weakness?” “Why should I hire you over someone else?” Common interview questions, all. Yet...
Striking a Friendly Balance at Work
Work is a great place to make good friends. In fact, having at least one good friend at work is pretty much required in order for us to enjoy our jobs. Friends also make us more productive. What’s more, having a good work friend also may be...
Dealing with “The Gap”
While most of us will work until about our mid-60s, not all of us will work all the time until then: most of us probably will have a gap in our work history either due to illness (ours or a family member’s), raising children, being laid...
Acing the Phone or Video Interview
Many companies conduct preliminary screening interview with a phone or video interview before asking candidates in for an in-person interview. Such calls are real interviews and should be treated as such. (You won’t get a chance to shine in person...
Can I Wear a T-shirt to a Job Interview?
Our first thought when hearing this question is “Heck, no!’ But then we realized: the workplace is much more casual today than even five years ago. Many people wear t-shirts on the job, so it’s an understandable question: why couldn’t you wear one...
