The Top Job Search Trends of 2013
Happy New Year! I love new beginnings, and January 1st is the newest and freshest start of them all. If you’re a job seeker, now is the perfect time to reinvigorate your efforts, try some new strategies or consider a fresh perspective. With those goals in mind, here are three career trends I’m predicting for […]
Gen Y and the Pursuit of Happiness
I’m a huge fan of YPulse, especially their daily newsletter that keeps me up to date on all things Millennial. I was honored to have the opportunity to write a guest blog post for their site. As always, I’d love to know your thoughts on this topic — please share in the Comments! Gen Y […]
Does Your Resume “Resunate”?
I recently spoke with Mona Adbel-Hailm, the co-inventor of Resunate.com, to learn more about her company’s new approach to resume creation. In a nutshell, Resunate enables job seekers to create customized, job specific resumes. As I learned in a demo, your work experience gets screened against any job description and then indicates if you’re a […]
Are You Ready to “Crack the New Job Market”? An Interview with R. William Holland
A few months ago I received a surprising email from R. William (Bill) Holland. Bill reached out to tell me about his upcoming book, Cracking the New Job Market: The 7 Rules for Getting Hired in Any Economy, and we also reminisced about our shared connection. Bill’s son was a classmate of mine in elementary […]
Why Your College Major Doesn’t Matter
In honor of back to school season, I wanted to share an observation I’ve made over the past ten years of advising Generation Y on their post-college careers: When it comes to your job search and career aspirations, your college major doesn’t matter.* Yes, there are some professions (e.g., accounting), where you may need a […]
3 Simple Ways to Get More Feedback
When I run training programs for companies on how to better manage their Generation Y talent, there is a certain complaint I hear over and over again: This generation wants too much feedback! According to many managers, Gen Y employees want feedback “on-demand” — they want to know how they’re doing after virtually every meeting, […]
Yet Another Reason to Clean Up Your Facebook Profile
Over the years I’ve written multiple posts about the importance of cleaning up your online image and, specifically, your Facebook profile. When I first wrote about this topic in 2007, I found a study by the Ponemon Institute, a privacy think tank, reporting that 35 percent of hiring managers used Google to do online background […]
Why “Grunt Work” Matters
I’ve become increasingly distressed over the years by the number of students and recent grads who complain to me that their jobs or internships contain too much “grunt work.” (Interestingly, these complaints have not slowed at all in the bad economy, when one might think any job, including one that requires some gruntage, is better […]
Predictions about the Future of Gen Y at Work
As another cohort of young professionals enters the workforce this graduation season, I’ve been pleased to see some more positive articles about Generation Y appearing in the media. Sure, the members of this generation are still young and have a lot to learn, but, these articles assert, maybe they’re not as “entitled” and “coddled” as […]
Are You Ready to “Work on Purpose”?
In today’s changing economy and challenging job market, it can be difficult for a young professional to make choices about what type of career you’d really like to pursue. The options can seem nearly limitless, and it may feel impossible to truly consider all of the necessary factors involved in your decision-making. Furthermore, many Millennials […]