Archive for the 'Job hunting' Category
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 [...]
Dogs can do it, can you?
This is the monthly #Career Collective Bloggers post. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to see the list of other bloggers and click on the links to read their valuable thoughts on the following question.
This month’s question is: What advice do you have to help job seekers transition and make the most of [...]
Holidays and a New Year. It can be a time of reflection – if you’re not too busy just getting by.
Or maybe, the problem is you don’t know what to reflect on? It’s all so overwhelming.
You might start here. Ask yourself,
“What can I do for myself, right now so I can manage [...]
This month’s Career Collective topic is: Specific tips to help job seekers ramp up their efforts for the holiday season and the new year. At the end of this post, check out the collective wisdom of the career bloggers in the collective.
Are you living with chronic illness and looking at the holiday season with [...]
This month the “Career Collective” collaborates with Quint’s Job Action Day. We’re asked to provide workers and job seekers with information, ideas and concrete steps to secure their futures in a changed economy. As always, I’ll do that with working with chronic illness in mind.
When I graduated with a degree in photojournalism in 1973, the [...]
Take a minute to ask someone, anyone: “Do you know what the Americans with Disabilities Act is?” Most likely you’ll hear Yes.
Now ask, “What does the ADA do?” Maybe you’ll hear that it protects people with disabilities from discrimination. Funny how many people, with and without disabilities, know about this Act but don’t really [...]
Resumes look different than when my parents were job hunting – – or for that matter, when I was first in the game. For most of the 20th century, a person took a job expecting to die in that job.
But sometime in the early 1990’s, job security and employee loyalty were pushed aside in a [...]
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Two chronic issues for people with chronic illness who are job interviewing are: disclosure and employment gaps.
In this post, I’ll discuss disclosure. I’ll cover employment gaps next time.
Disclosure centers on 3 big questions:
Should I say it?
What should I say?
What is [...]
