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1. I guest-posted a few days ago over at You Should Only Know. Complaining about ingrates. Also, her whole blog is awesome; check it out. 2. If you’re job-searching, check your spam folder. This is my annual announcement. 3. It’s really not a good idea to use my sample cover letter as your own. Especially if you’re applying […]

Something is coming, and it is so very, very awesome!

How would you feel about a massive instructional guide full of my advice on how to get a job, a book crammed so full of my advice that you’ll never want or need to hear another word from me? People liked my “how to prepare for a job interview” guide, so now I’m doing something […]

If you’re in the D.C. area or reasonably close to it, and you’re a manager at a nonprofit, I strongly recommend attending an upcoming training session from The Management Center. The Management Center is completely fantastic, and their trainings consistently draw rave reviews. Unlike a lot of trainings, these aren’t geared to the lowest common denominator […]

I made something for you! In response to the survey I did last week, a lot of you told me that that you really struggle with preparing for job interviews and feeling confident going into interviews. So check it out — I now have a free guide to help with that. How to Prepare for […]

I’m going through the responses from the survey I ran earlier this week, and I want to say two things: 1. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who replied. You guys gave such thoughtful answers, and I so appreciate you taking the time to help me out. You guys are awesome. 2. Sooooo […]

When your nerves get the better of you in an interview, what exactly is it that’s causing your anxiety?  I’m not talking about mild nerves, but rather the type of nerves that are severe enough that they impact your performance and/or make the interview horribly unpleasant for you. When this happens, what specifically is going […]

You ask me questions all the time, and now I want to ask you a couple. I’m working with Ben Eubanks to create something kind of awesome, but I want to ask you a couple of questions in order to narrow down the direction we’re taking it in so that we can make sure it […]

I resigned my job a few weeks ago. I’ve always found it extremely bittersweet to leave any job, no matter what my experience was there, and in this case I left a job that most days I really loved. But I left because it is time for something new. For a while now, I’ve wanted to […]

Ask a Manager turns three today. I have no idea how I’ve managed to keep finding topics to write about for three years or how you all manage to keep finding new twists on the questions you send in! Here are some of my favorite posts from the last year: Combatting unhealthy power dynamics during […]