Archive for the 'Job hunting' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FYI – If you tried to “comment” recently and couldn’t, that’s fixed now! 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 [...]
The good news, confided my client, is that so many people are in the same boat I’m in – for the first time. The bad news? The boat is sinking. Was he joking? No doubt, one difficult aspect of living with chronic illness, especially if you’re under 50, is that you feel so alone. You [...]
Looking for a job in a depressed economy and living with a chronic illness that makes your employment history a bit “sketchy”. Yikes, it doesn’t sound pretty. But at the moment, that describes many of my clients. Not surprising, is it? Ten years ago, a robust, growing economy made it much easier for anyone [...]
Happy Memorial Day! Whether or not you’re employed, there’s a 3 day “weekend” up ahead. Some will “parade’, others might picnic, or maybe you’re just taking it slow, resting up for the week ahead. Likely you’ll be on the internet, even a bit. So why not use that time to your advantage? Give some [...]
