Pay attention to the the type of job (and the skills it demands) and worry less about what industry it is in.
You show more flexibility and value when you can maintain relevance – no matter what the professional discipline
(re)Examining Modern Convention
Monthly Archives: March 2009
We Don’t Want Any: Why I’ve Stopped Trying to Convince People to Blog
Blogging is like a dirty word to some people. If you suggest it, they start gasping like you’re trying to convince them that prostitution is merely speed dating. These notions are fine when you’ve at least tried blogging (or speed dating).
Non-bloggers only seem to concentrate on the irrelevancies of blogging, how it has nothing to do with them (or the “real world”) and insist on questioning it’s usefulness. But value and relevancy are not always one in the same.
Business Cards…Kind of
I picked up these calling cards from the Paper Source on Chicago Avenue last week. I'm too cheap (now) to create my own business cards - but it beats writing my contact info on ...
Interview Questions and Comments That Make Me Cringe
Why not go further in political science? Why not go to law school? What does that have to do with me interviewing for an assistant position in the Fundraising department? And, if I had gone to law school, I think I'd be more than a tad overqualifed ...
Why Your Parents Might Be Asking YOU For Job Search Advice
They've been out of the job market for years. Parents mean well, but they can give a lot of useless advice to their kids. Especially when it comes to job searching. If ...
Quitting Your Job Without Giving Notice? It’s not as bad as you think
There’s all this talk that it’s common courtesy to give your employer 2 weeks notice when quitting your job. Yet, who is that really benefiting? Common opinion states that you burn bridges when you quit without notice.
Sex and the Unemployed Woman
While looking up research on dating and the unemployed, I ran across this article on Nerve. Might not be safe for work - take heed. I began to wonder how sex and romance are affected for an unemployed woman when she's in a relationship. And... when she's not. I've been ...
Fostering Multiplicity in Your Career Instead of Having a Series of Jobs
Creating complexity, meaning and autonomy in your professional life is not done through the 1-2-3 step process. For the best results, steps 1 and 2 may occur simultaneously while step 3 may not be ...