Job Search

Advice from mental health experts on how to cope through a prolonged job search. Being let go from a job is difficult under any circumstances, but in today’s economy, it can be even more stressful. Mental-health experts and people who have been through the job hunt themselves offer the following advice for maintaining your emotional … Read More

Clinical psychologists and therapists provide insights on how not to lose your identity when you lose your job. One big challenge a professional faces when he’s lost his job is that he’s also lost a big piece of his identity. “Being out of work is a terrible feeling,” said Elizabeth Friedman, PhD, a clinical psychologist … Read More

Warning signs that a job loss is taking a toll on your emotional wellbeing. The loss of a job hits both your pocketbook and your very identity. Negative feelings are only natural after being laid off and going through a job search — especially in the current economic climate — but there are some red … Read More

Software sales representative changes jobs in order to focus less on high-volume quotas and more on meeting client needs. Joe B. left his last position as a software sales representative in the government sector when the job became untenable. “As the third representative in the territory in three years, it took longer to re-establish trust … Read More

Editor’s note: This article was originally available to attendees of Ladders’ finance-industry career event held in New York on Feb. 9, 2009. One thousand applicants for one position. Ron Dadina couldn’t believe what he was hearing. The job wasn’t an open call for an entry-level position; it was a senior finance position at The World … Read More

Professionals are often very diligent about their career when they don’t have a job, but the fact is they should be just as diligent when employed. Assume success. Assume that all of your hard work over all these years has suddenly paid off in the form of you achieving what you’ve always wanted. You now … Read More

The hiring manager may not explicitly give you feedback telling you these factors are why you lost the job – but these pet peeves may be the factors that made the hiring managers look elsewhere. Remember the old saying, “The devil is in the details”? Think about how those details can be the devil in … Read More

The basics, such as sacrifice and patience, can soothe an otherwise difficult job search. My parents majored in sacrifice and minored in thrift. Every day for the first 30 years of my life I heard the word “sacrifice” as in, “We sacrificed a lot so you could be better off.” And they weren’t kidding. My … Read More

High-level sales director considers relocating her H.S.-age daughters in order to land a job. Parrish said leaving her previous position, as the regional director of sales for the Southwest region of Reliant, which sold software to school districts, was “a gamble. The company had been a startup, and it had grown tremendously. It had gotten … Read More