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5 Options If You’ve Been Looking for a Job and Can’t Find One

January 9, 2024 Guest Post Comments 1 comment

1) Hire a Career Coach Not just any career coach, hire a career coach who has helped people like yourself return to earning a living in the recent past. Look for someone with a website that talks about your particular issues, such as: no experience, over 50, physical or emotional limitations, ‘overqualified’, etc. Ask them to tell you about some of their recent successes. You should feel confident or at least very hopeful that this particular career coach can help…

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Some of the WORST Advice I Ever Got About Unemployment…

January 9, 2024 Guest Post Comments 0 Comment

I’m late to this party of unemployment. I had worked steadily for almost 45 years before I was ever unemployed, and to this day, I still cringe when I remember what it was like to wake up and have no place to go. I didn’t need to pack my lunch or my planner. I didn’t need to check my schedule and do my morning ritual before leaving for the day. It didn’t matter if I had gas in my car…

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Best Career Advice Quotes

January 8, 2024 Guest Post Comments 1 comment

5 of my favorite quotes on work and career. From Walt Disney… and Sheryl Sandberg… I love this one For the writers and dreamers and for the sport fans and those who want to achieve… SHARE THIS with YOUR BEST FRIEND

A Career-Ending Injury: Robert’s Story (Part 1)

January 8, 2024 Guest Post Comments 0 Comment

I remember the day clearly. It was warm, not hot, with a breeze to keep us comfortable. I had been working at that site, building frames to install solar panels for several months. It was very physically demanding. I didn’t like the job, but I liked the money it gave me. I was working for the Laborer’s Union for about a year and was employed more often than not. I worked on demolishing buildings and road paving crews. The Union…

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I Thought I’d Disappointed Everyone in my Life

January 8, 2024 Guest Post Comments 1 comment

I graduated from a well-ranked liberal-arts college and thought finding work would be… a cinch! I had majored in business—often touted as one of the most employable degrees—had a high GPA and sported a long list of scholarships and merit awards. There was no shortage of professors and former supervisors eager to give me glowing recommendations or references wherever needed. Best of all, I’d worked 9 internships, which was a ton of experience for a college graduate. People said that…

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