Discouraged jobseekers are those people looking for a job who have not actively searched in the past four weeks. They have almost given up on finding suitable work. Economists disagree on how many discouraged jobseekers are really there in the market but it is...
Planning for age discrimination? Are you kidding? Not at all. It’s one of the most important plans you will ever consider. Most working professionals approach their careers with trust, assuming it will all work out because it started out so well. They assume...
Back in the day, there used to be executive headhunters because it was difficult to find jobs. Then with the internet, there were executive job search that were only for jobs over 100k. Today, if they are not confidential, executive jobs are posted on all of the same...
Gaps Are The Devil One of the most significant permanent changes in the post 2008 job market is that gaps of any kind of your resume are treated with the fear once reserved for bad plastic surgery. Gaps on a resume are the devil when it comes to job search. Why is...
Retirement is an Obsolete Construct Our grandparents looked forward to retirement. That’s because they had more that Social Security. They had pensions. Remember that three legged stool that would fund retirement experts always mentioned? The retirement stool...
January is one of the biggest months for starting a new job. That’s why I advise career coaching clients to actively work their job searches through December including the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Recruiters will be working critical jobs and...