Job Application Tips

If you need to write a message for business, be it an email, a white paper, or a text for the web, you want it to get you the desired response. Writing takes time and effort. To make sure that [...]

Validating your experiences with cover letters and LinkedIn recommendations is expected in the workplace. While modern resumes do not include a list of references, nor the phrase “references [...]

Whatever the stage of your career, you may be finding new professional associations to join from time to time. Association memberships and conferences are a time and cost investment and should be [...]

Many candidates view preparing a strong job application and submitting it online as the final step of the process. They have put time into the application, and now they wait for a response. If [...]

When events like Covid-19 or other economic fluctuations destabilize your work trajectory, take a moment to reflect on your actions and strategies, instead of dwelling too much on uncertainty and [...]

A client asked this question the other day, and it calls for a blog post. Indeed, what you do with your strategically written resume is as important as preparing career documents that set you [...]

If you are setting out to find a new job and feel held back by some of the ideas below, I offer a few ways to reconsider them and move closer to reaching your goals. 1. Too many jobs on my CV [...]

Over the years, I have often heard clients mention the long hours they put into editing their resumes and cover letters. Applying for jobs can be exhausting if you spend too much time tweaking [...]

When you set out to look for employment, being organized and equipped with tools is half the job. Consider job search a full-time, temporary enterprise and approach it with a focus and a [...]

Whether in government, academic, medical, technical, or business environments, we have all encountered “zombie prose”—opaque writing that fails to see the topic from the readers’ point of view. [...]