Recently I was scanning through the resumes listed on Craigslist and noticed something very surprising. Most of the listings weren’t resumes at all. They were job seekers begging and pleading for a job. Once I pulled myself up off the floor from falling out of my chair in disbelief I said something has to be [...]

While things are looking a little brighter, the economy still seems to be in a bit of free fall. (Except if you’re at Goldman Sachs.)
If you aren’t looking for work yourself, you know someone who is searching for a job, who just graduated, or is tuning up their skills so they don’t get permanently furloughed [...]

With all the advice out there about the myriad ways to present your best self on paper, it’s hard to know if you’ve captured enough good ideas and made enough adjustments to your resume and cover letter to make them stand out among the crowd. In particular, you want your cover letter to have just [...]

1) If I had enough money to live on for a year, right now, I’d . . .
a. Quit my job and take off for a year because I may never get that chance again.
b. Keep working and spend the extra cash on fun stuff.
c. Try to save most of it.
2) I would change jobs [...]

It takes different forms, and attracts different practitioners, but it still seems to pop up every generation or so.
It’s not an interest in jazz, or open-toed shoes.  In fact, despite its trendy status, it may even touch on something essentially human.
It’s the idea of getting back to the land.
Judging from the double-digit increase in Burpee [...]

Concerned about your retirement savings?    You’re in good company.   Many folks investing for or in retirement are seeing their savings shrink.   Many are concerned about their inability to save more and enlarge their retirement capital.
In my book “Cash-Rich Retirement”, I argue that it’s time to take a different, much less speculative approach to enlarging and [...]

“Space, the final frontier…”  I must confess that my heart went a little pitter pat when Spock intoned those famous words at the end of “Star Trek.”
Why, I wondered?  It could be because I’m a least a partial nerd, but it felt like something more was going on.
Maybe it was because the famous theme music [...]

If you’re in the early stages of your management career, there are some basic ideas that we want to pass on so perhaps you won’t have to learn the hard way how to provide leadership to the people who work for you. As a manager, whether you know it or not, you’re under constant scrutiny. [...]

“I can’t recommend we hire him. His suit was wrinkled and the sleeves of his jacket were too long. His presentation just wasn’t right.” This was an admission of a fellow HR staffing manager, telling me all about her disastrous interview with a job candidate. I knew her to be a reasonable judge of a [...]

Despite the poor economy and continuing job losses, many people are still in denial about the possibility of returning to their former careers. They imagine “waiting it out” and re-entering the marketplace doing basically the same thing as they did before. But it is becoming ever more evident that the world has permanently changed and [...]