UPDATE: These webinars have already been completed and are no longer available for purchase. Please sign up for our newsletter on the right sidebar to be notified of future webinars. ====== If landing a new job is one of your new year’s resolutions, you need to know how to interview. If you want to make [...]

Interestingly, I got a question from a reader about how to explain an employment gap specifically for LinkedIn and not for a resume or just in general. I wonder which of these options applies to this reader: She forgot to ask about the resume; She already solved the employment gap issue on her resume; or [...]

When GM announced it was laying off 15% of its workforce, I thought of the laid off workers now looking for a job under pressure. Even without a layoff ramping up the anxiety, the job search carries enough pressure. A job search already tests your resilience with its ups and downs and tests your nerves [...]

Just in time to ring in the new year, I am leading a new webinar that focuses on a topic that trips up even my most talented, hardworking clients – how to get started on your big career goals to: maximize your chance at success; and minimize time spent spinning your wheels on the wrong [...]

If you work for a company that gives official performance reviews, then you have a built-in structure at the end of the year for self-reflection. If you had a breakout year on the job, use the performance review to forward your career. If you didn’t have a strong year, this can still be overcome, but [...]

Perfectionism is a bad habit. It’s not something you’re born with that you can’t change. Somewhere along the road, you got into a rut where you put things off waiting for perfect conditions or you worked on things too long in the quest for a perfect quality that will never come. The good news is [...]

A recent Forbes post explored how much networking it really takes to land a job (spoiler alert: there is no guarantee!). Because networking deals with person-to-person interactions, there will always be some uncertainty. If you do X type of outreach, will networking will pay off? We can’t say with 100% certainty. However, while networking may [...]

My Forbes post on landing a new job after staying at the same company for a long time clearly struck a chord because I heard follow-up questions from a number of readers. Irena asked about how to make a career change later in life. I’ve written before about starting over after 40, and about how [...]

One perk of writing multiple blogs (or annoyance, depending on your point of view) is that I get pitched with trends, ideas, and reports on a variety of subjects looking for coverage. I recently wrote a Forbes post on the four-day workweek, inspired by a survey of 3,000 employees around the world that revealed almost [...]