Career and/or Job Search Burnout

Although most people do not work hard or smartly enough in a job search, there is such a thing as over doing a job search and burning out. Burnout comes up on one slowly, and as such it may be hard to spot. The trick is doing proper self-reflection, living properly, and setting clearly articulated …

How to handle a job loss?

On the first day, have a good cry / moping session, catch your breath, because the following day starts a new and better chapter. The loss of a job means that your task completed or that you were not that good of a fit for your expertise. You might have done something wrong, or some …

How to Negotiate Salary

In order to emerge from the interviewing process a winner and reach your earning potential, you must be prepared to do homework and work. First of all, do not discuss salary. The employer should want you. Discuss what you can do for them and how you are valuable to them. The reason that an employer …

How to Properly Do a Job Interview

The standard approach to an interview is to just show up and roll with the flow. Some people might rehearse possible questions, but that is usually as far as it goes. In this article, I will talk about the proper way to prepare for and handle an interview. Before going into details, let us step …

Job Seeking Misery: Not Just the Recession

Since the end of 2007, most of us have heard about “The Great Recession”. Okay, many of us have not only heard about the recession but are living it. In this morning’s Los Angeles Times, Faye Fiore writes about a Philadelphia woman, who recently exhausted all her unemployment benefits and is now suffering unable to …