Four types of value to offer employers
Many job seekers won’t like the following: When you’re not selected for an interview, for subsequent interviews, or hired, chances are the hiring manager didn’t think you’d be a...
What if I told you ageism doesn’t exist?
When you read the title of this column, where did your focus and mental energy immediately go? What if, when job searching, instead of obsessing about all the things...
Quick fixes that will significantly improve your job search
“The devil is in the details” is an idiom highlighting how small details can significantly affect the outcome of something and that attention to detail is the difference between...
Job search: Hack talk to strangers
An impromptu conversation with an AI engineer, the chef of a five-star hotel writing down their lamb stew recipe for me, being told of a mechanic for my ’82...
If you were an employer, which candidate would you gravitate to?
As regular readers of The Art of Finding Work know, I stress that an individual’s mindset can make or break their job search—how you think is everything. Even though...
Employers are not in the ‘give a chance business’
Many job seekers become frustrated and angry because they believe employers should take a chance on hiring them. Most job seekers fail, or refuse, to grasp that hiring is...
Truths job seekers conveniently ignore
“You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand, Russian-born American writer, Atlas Shrugged (1957) Acknowledging current job market realities is imperative...
Including a cover letter gives you a competitive advantage
Nowadays, landing a job requires doing what others don’t. Thus, I find the never-ending debate and polarizing opinions about whether to include a cover letter with one’s application perplexing....
Your fear of being seen is costing you job opportunities
Imagine you’re an executive at a major Hollywood studio. You’re meeting with two producers you’ve worked with before. They’re pitching a screenplay set in 1870s Oregon about unrequited love....
When job searching you are being compared
Job hunting is a ‘winner takes all’ competition in which you’re compared and judged against other applicants. Putting in an application for a job is no different from entering...