Career Advice

Searching for a job is difficult. Most of us have gone through the daunting phase of searching for the “dream job,” been through multiple rounds of interviews and met with our...

One of the most frequent questions about resumes I hear from friends, coworkers, and many others, is, “How far back in time should my resume go?” Typically the answer is 15 to...

Finding meaning in your work even in the best of times can be hard, but at the moment, it might be harder than ever before. In a time when the conversation is heavily focused...

Achieving success can mean a lot of different things. Maybe you’ve secured a dream job that will keep you secure for years to come. Maybe you’ve just left a job with the...

A cover letter is your opportunity to shine. This is the place where you can control the narrative on where you’ve been, where you are now and where you’d like to end up....

COVID-19 has made work relationships more personal than ever. Employers have a chance to see what their employees are like in their home environment and connect on a more...

Anytime is a good time to consider the types of skills we can offer a potential employer. To be frank, there is nothing that can make us “perfectly employable,” and there will...

Imagine you’re on a job interview. You’re charming them, they’re charming you and it’s going great. Yet, something’s not quite right. There’s an elephant lurking in the...

When we sit down for a job interview, most of us, I think, are expecting to talk about the following things, ranked in order of importance: 1) Our work history, 2) Our...

“Do I include the high school car wash cashier job? What about the internship in college?” These questions (or some variation of it) are asked a lot. We want to showcase our...

Negotiating for one’s salary can be as intimidating as it is necessary. In our current economic environment, wages have notoriously refused to grow alongside other indicators...

The age of social media and data aggregation means that a lot of the legwork job recruiters had to do to identify candidates is now done collectively by the labor market on...

We’ve all heard a question in an interview that goes something like this: “It says here that you were ‘Operations Manager,’ what exactly did that entail?” Am I right? Doesn’t...

1. What is your biggest weakness?This is the one we’ve all heard in a million TV shows and movies (and maybe in our nightmares), but it is certainly a commonly asked question....

Granted, you are a team player with impeccable customer service skills. But how does that differentiate you from the bundle? Nearly everyone competing with you for that...