Job Search

One of the things that I want to do with this blog is give “case studies” of job searches women have underway, and provide advice and direction.  So here goes… E.D. of Pennsylvania wrote this to me:“I’m re-entering the corporate setting after being out for 11 years. I ‘ve spent the time running my own business…

One of the hardest things for women to learn—in or beyond the school years—is the difference between skills and attributes.  When you’re looking for a summer job, an internship or a real job after graduation, it’s important that you focus on skills. If I could teach you only one lesson through this blog it would be…

Here’s a networking quiz…which of the following is the most effective way to network?    Hand out your business card to everyone you meet—and even post it on the community board at the carwash   Attend every networking meeting that you can find and hand out as many business cards as possible.    Find a really quiet coffee…

In a precarious job market, you have to have eyes in the back of your head.  Even the best job can become the worst job when a department is restructured, and in a difficult economy you just never know when your job could be in peril. This means that to some degree you always have…

A smart, humorous and very witty guy I know lost his senior-level job and lived to tell the story.  To document the experience he wrote a job seeker’s manifesto called “Hope is Not a Strategy”.  Though my focus is wholly on women, I find that men sometimes have good ideas, too—so I’m sharing some of…

For the past 10 years I’ve been observing how women conduct a job search.  And although my work has been focused on women, I’ve also seen how plenty of men search for a job.  And the fact is that even in the most robust economy, I contend that a very high percentage of today’s job…