Archive for the 'Job hunting' Category
Do you tell yourself your chronic illness would be more manageable if you had more control over the rest of your life?
Do you believe that if you could find a job, influence your boss or be more effective at work, you’d feel better?
Yet, do you feel powerless to take action, worried it might not be [...]
Networking: as easy as 1,2,3
This month’s CareerCollectiveBloggers topic is : NETWORKING. This is a terrific opportunity to get input from many experts on this topic so scroll down to read what other bloggers write about this subject.
From what I’ve seen, most people think that networking means showing up at an event where potential employers might attend. They bring [...]
If chronic illness impacts your work life, a job interview can feel like a massive hurdle you can’t climb over. But I’ve seen how much easier this becomes when you normalize your situation.
What’s normal about chronic illness you ask? Nothing, really. But isn’t there more to you than just this illness? Here are two examples [...]
Getting out from under chronic
This week’s post is part of the Monthly Career Collective Bloggers. This month’s topic is: How to Heat Up Your Job Search. Scroll down to see what my fellow writer’s suggest!
Is being unemployed feeling like a chronic condition? Chronic — it’s not sexy, exciting or fun. Worse, chronic means it’s not changing and won’t go [...]
This month’s career collective bloggers question is: “What should job seekers do now to prepare for interviews?” Scroll down for thoughtful ideas and useful tips from my fellow bloggers.
MY FANTASY: With every chronic illness diagnosis comes a toolkit filled with all you need to prepare for the unpredictable (more on this in my [...]
This month’s career collective topic is “foolishness’ and job search/career (it is April 1!). I won’t offer specific tactics to avoid making a fool of yourself (I’ll leave that up to the other creative bloggers). But in my coaching practice, I get to see how people fool themselves and I’ll share my thoughts on that. [...]
Since hanging my shingle as a “chronic illness career coach”, the question I get asked most often is: “Should I disclose my illness when interviewing for a job?”
Naturally, as a coach, I have more questions than answers. But there is one guideline I’ve found is worth following:
If symptoms get in the way of doing [...]
Finding opportunity in quicksand
Being a career collective blogger gives me a monthly reminder that people living with illness face the same issues as healthy people. This month’s questions are (you can find links to my fellow blogger posts at the end of this article):
What do you do when you’re really, really, really discouraged about your unsuccessful job search?
How [...]
After many hours spent filling out forms and dotting my ” i’s”, I’ve been awarded a contract as a vendor for the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work program.
I tend to do poorly with forms and details (just ask my husband!) and I knew it would be torture. Yet another example of the devil is [...]
Living with chronic illness can leave even the toughest person feeling vulnerable. You just wish that other people could “get it”, don’t you?
I know from personal experience how hard this is in a marriage (How a Marriage Survives When One Person Gets Sick, MORE Magazine) . And marriage is all about the relationship, where two [...]
