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Remember when I told you that I’ve been doing some pro bono work for Natasha’s Justice Project, which is working to end the backlog of rape kits? Quick refresher: Nationwide, an estimated 180,00 rape kits are backlogged — sitting on shelves unprocessed, for lack of money and/or will. That’s 180,000 rape victims who went through an […]

Are you a fan of my job searching advice? Are you a fan of cash?  Now you can combine the two! What: Encourage your friends, blog readers, and social network followers to check out my e-book, How to Get a Job: Secrets of a Hiring Manager. If they purchase a copy, you’ll get a 40% […]

I don’t often go off-topic here, and I promise to continue that trend, but I’m helping with something on the side that means a lot to me and that I want to tell you about. When she was 19, my friend Natasha Alexenko was raped at gunpoint in the hallway of her apartment building. Her […]

I don’t usually post this kind of thing, but for some reason I find this fascinating… The CBS daytime talk show “The Doctors” contacted me to say that they’re looking for a hot-tempered woman who hates her job with a passion and who would be willing to appear on the show. (The show wouldn’t identify […]

Five quick things for you: 1. I recently spoke with Debbie Laskey about hiring and all kinds of other stuff. You can read her interview with me here. 2. I also recently spoke with the Arizona Republic about things to know if you’re being fired. You can read that article here. 3. Speaking of being […]

So many miscellaneous things: 1. First, since I slammed the New York Department of Labor last week for ripping off my content without permission or attribution, I want to recognize them for how they handled it when I brought it to their attention:  After forwarding them five more links to posts on their site that […]

I loved reading the responses to the “what do you like about your job?” post. We traffic so frequently in bad workplace situations here that reading about positive elements was a nice change of pace. I have a step 2 to propose:  Why not tell whoever’s responsible for the thing you cited how much you appreciate […]

Reading all the comments on the secret fantasy career post made me wonder about the things that make you happy at your job in real life.  What do you love about your job, past or present? What things make you happy about your job that might surprise other people? Nothing about the paycheck or benefits here. […]

Just a heads-up that my resume review offer will end at midnight EST on Friday (tomorrow). So if you want it, get it now! Also, I need a synonym for “short” that begins with an F.

As I’ve mentioned before, I get a lot of requests to give people feedback on their resumes, but because it’s time-consuming to do it well, I usually turn them down unless they’re friends or family. But for a short time, I’m re-opening the resume review offer that I ran earlier this year!  When I offered this […]