From Inside the Room Where Decisions About Your Career are Made.
From Inside the Room Where Decisions About Your Career are Made.
Don’t believe the hype
The Competition Isn’t What You Think It Is
Whether you were just laid off or you’re still employed but reading the writing on the wall, the instinct is the same: why look now? There are no jobs.
That fear is legitimate. The market is genuinely harder than it was two years ago.
But ‘harder’ isn’t the same as ‘closed’. And the math inside a hiring process tells a very different story than the one in your news feed.
Get ahead of the organizational changes
Confidence and options before a layoff happens
Even if no layoffs occur, people who do these things tend to have more confidence and options over the course of their careers.
Layoffs can happen overnight and feel like a complete surprise.
But most layoffs don’t arrive as a surprise.
They arrive as part of a pattern.
Most people don’t get blindsided.
#RealTalk
Missed Opportunity for Job Interview Practice
A Holiday Tradition
There’s no better time to start job interview practice than the holidays.
Every year, I watch close friends shepherd their little monsters through another festive season. I see the same missed career development opportunity playing out in public. It forces me to question the future of corporate America. Not because children are terrible. But because adults are raising future coworkers and teaching them exactly the wrong lessons.
Are recent college graduates trained for what is expected in the workplace?
Did COVID lower a college graduate’s likelihood of success in the workforce?
Are recent college graduates set up to succeed or fail post-COVID? Are you a manager hiring recent graduates? Today’s post uncovers a phenomenon I don’t think employees or hiring managers have realized. This post isn’t your “generational differences in the workplace.” This post covers:
These two didn’t get any interview practice for their meeting with the CEO of Christmas
Missed opportunity for job interview practice
There’s no better time to start job interview practice than the holidays. I have close friends with little monsters and see a wasted career development opportunity. Watching them go through another holiday season forces me to question the future of corporate America. There are plenty who feel I am insensitive and that I do not believe in humanity.
The salary is just the tip of the iceberg. Ask the right questions, and you can avoid surprises.
Job offer review, the hidden numbers
Do you know what job offer review questions to ask when contemplating a new position? I give a lot of job offers in my line of work, and it surprises me how often a candidate will take a job without asking for a job offer review. The candidate hears the hourly rate or the annual salary and “accepts”
The holiday blues are a real thing. Fortunately, we can minimize or eliminate these moody times. How to recognize when you are about to enter a funk and simple steps you can take to keep the holiday blues away.
Don’t mention that you can do the job in an interview!
The most common phrase in an interview
that candidates share with their interviewer is, “I can do this job”. Believe it or not, this is a phrase you want to avoid in your interviews. This is one of the last phrases you want to share with your interviewer and we will provide a number of reasons why this is the case.