6 Reasons Google is Your First Employment Contact in HR

It won’t be long before Google has the first say to every employer that anyone is a good job candidate. It’s hard to wrap your head around that one, huh? [...]

Personal branding lesson from Chicago (the band)

  Chicago is a band that started in the late 60’s and had hits extending well into the ‘80s. They toured with Jimi Hendrix who [...]

4 More Ways of Basic Salary and Employment Negotiation

A friend recently negotiated a $10,000 bump in a salary offer because he used reasoning with a company that came after him. The current company [...]

Basic Salary and Employment Negotiation (Part 1)

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Many job seekers ask about negotiating salary, yet never get in leveraging position. It is a passing thought or just too passive to strategize. There [...]

Time to Get Down to the Heart of Your Employment Matters

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Years ago, Don Henley released a song called, “Heart of the Matter,” that describes the broken and turbulent relationship is about forgiveness, …even if you [...]

Understand Or Be Misunderstood (It May Land You a Job)

The story I will tell not only has to do with my personal ignorance, but also our society’s ability to understand and communicate across diverse [...]

Make Career Defining Choices Like a 17-Year-Old

Make Career Defining Choices Like a 17-Year-Old

Adults make career defining decisions often think about benefits, and salary, but  rarely happiness. Everyone does things that they don’t want to do in their [...]

A Year Later, Where have You Taken Your Talents?

  On Friday, the sports world focused in on one infamous quote from an accomplished basketball player.   When asking the right questions along the [...]

The Changes, Challenges, and Chores of the Unemployed

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Whether a job seeker has chosen to be unemployed, or is a victim of downsizing, no one is perfectly prepared for the imminence of the [...]