Wayne Gretzky, widely considered the best hockey player of all time, famously once remarked "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." In truth, this mantra doesn't just apply to the athletics arena. It's also not a bad philosophy to adopt for one's entire life, as well, and has a particularly strong application within the job hunting arena -- since when you're looking for work, there are going to be a lot of cases [...]
Happy new year, everybody, and with 2018 now officially upon us, I've (predictably) seen a ton of articles and news stories coming out reporting on the state of the marketplace and discussing the overall health of the economy -- as well as offering predictions for the rest of the year to come. In observing these reports, however, I find that many of them fail to make a distinction that's vitally important to the fortunes of [...]
If you're feeling a bit intimidated by the job market today and the many changes it seems to have gone through, guess what? You're normal. And these feelings are going to be even more pronounced if you've been out of work for a considerable stretch of time, either due to involuntarily circumstances, a self-imposed sabbatical, or some such thing. In fact, in working with people in this situation on a daily basis, I can confirm [...]
Of all the posts I've written in recent years, one of them that just keeps provoking conversation, time and time again, is the article linked below that I published in September of 2013. It discusses the extra degree of difficulty involved in finding a new job when you're simultaneously going through (or recovering from) a divorce. So if you happen to be going through this situation yourself, or know somebody who is, I'd invite you [...]
Have you ever been talked into buying something you were a little hesitant to purchase, at first? Or to buy a different product than the one you were initially considering? Or to pull the trigger on an item (a house, car, etc.) that might not have been able to offer every feature you were looking for, but had other characteristics or attributes that were just too compelling or attractive to resist? If so, you've witnessed [...]