How to Find Your New Job

Newest Job Search Advice

• Why Landing a New Job Requires More Than a Good Resume
  
  Recruiter Harry Urschel explains why the "best-qualified" applicant isn't always the one who is hired.  When evaluating job candidates, employers care about more than the competence and skills described on the resume. Here's what can disqualify a qualified job seeker. (Read more...)
• 10 Keys to a Rewarding Second Act Career, Part 2
  
  Your second act career may be the most rewarding in many ways, and no rule limits you to only one second act career. They may evolve as your interests and needs change, or change quickly as you face other challenges in your life. Here are 5 more keys to a rewarding career. (Read more...)
• 3 Assumptions You Should Never Make About Your Resume
  
  Job seekers make assumptions about many aspects of their job search that may be wrong. And making wrong assumptions can mean a longer job search. Even a fabulous resume won’t land you a job, but a poorly done resume will cost you opportunities. (Read more of this WorkCoachCafe.com blog post.)
  
  

Current Popular Posts

• How to Maximize LinkedIn Broadcasts for Your Job Search
  
  Trying to decide how “open” to be on LinkedIn, or attempting to tone down your job search activity? LinkedIn offers 2 types of broadcast or networking messages that can be issued on a mass distribution basis to other users, informing them of your activity and basically prompting them to look at your Profile to interpret your actions.  (Read more...)
• How to Improve Your Job Search with 3 Email Techniques
  
  Email is a standard communication tool today but it can do so much more than send your message! You can use it to gather business intelligence, improve your productivity, and remind recipients of your expertise. Learn how to work smarter, not harder, during your job search. (Read more...)
• How to Handle Long Employment Gaps
  
  If you have been unemployed for more than six months, an issue you might run into during your job search is the "Unemployed Bias." Employers seem to prefer hiring people who are currently working because the assumption is that these people have up-to-date skills that an employer values. (Read more...)
• Add Misspellings to Your LinkedIn Profile
  
  If your name may be spelled many different ways, is commonly misspelled, or has changed due to marriage, you should consider adding those common misspellings - and alternate names - to your LinkedIn Profile very carefully. (Read more...)
• 3 Assumptions You Should Never Make About a Job Interview
  
  Although all of these statements below will hopefully not be true, depending on the employer and the interviewer, go into the interview expecting that they will apply. Don’t be discouraged by that!   Expect these situations to arise and, knowing they might happen, you can be prepared. (Read more of this WorkCoachCafe.com blog post.)
  

Newest articles are posted above. Find many more topics and experts below.

Help with the Job Search Process

• Resumes - Susan Ireland
• Job Interviewing - Laura DeCarlo
• Working with Recruiters - Jeff Lipschultz
• Personal Branding - Meg Guiseppi

• Job Search Mindset - Harry Urschel
• Job Search Navigation - Hannah Morgan 
• Company Research - Debra Wheatman

Help with the New Job Search Technologies

• Social Media & Job Search - Joshua Waldman
• LinkedIn for Job Search - Laura Smith-Proulx
• Using Google for Job Search - Susan P. Joyce

Handling Job Loss

• Job Loss Recovery - Nan S. Russell
• Layoff Survival Guide - Susan P. Joyce

Help Figuring Out What You Want to Do

• Career Changers' Guide to Careers
• Lifestyle-Friendly Careers - Nancy Collamer
• Starting a Consulting Business - Bruce Katcher, PhD

Help for Specific Groups of Job Seekers

• Boomer Job Search - Phyllis Mufson & Renée Lee Rosenberg
• Veterans' Job Search - Patra Frame
• New Graduates' Job Search - Chandlee Bryan
• Introverts' Job Search - Wendy Gelberg

Job Search Help for Specific Industries, Professions, and Markets

• Federal Government Job Search - Camille Carboneau Roberts
• Information Technology (IT) Job Search - Don Goodman
• International Job Search - Megan Fitzgerald
• Canadian Job Search - Daisy Wright

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