Career Advice & Insights

Don’t take a lowball salary offer personally. A low salary offer is not an insult; it’s just a lowball salary offer and it’s probably just the starting place from which you can begin a salary negotiation and work toward a bigger salary. Read More

Whether you’re on salary or on the hunt, you need to manage your time and energy. Approach the latter with the same focused structure you’d give the former. Read More

The 30-year-old electrical engineer wanted one job, that’s it, to carry him from graduation to retirement. When he was laid off by a large national pipeline company, he was mad. True, it wasn’t personal; he was only one of several hundred included in the company’s workforce reduction. But still, he was mad. “It really showed … Read More

The security of your job is paramount until you guarantee a new job offer. You’ve decided to look for greener pastures, but until you find those you want to stay in your current position. That reality requires job seekers who are employed to walk a tight line between publicizing their desire for new employment and … Read More

The way you follow up your resume submission can make or break your job search. Learn what to do after submitting your online application form to catch a hiring manager’s eye. Read More

A career lasts decades. How can you sustain excellence for the long haul? I’ve been asked to speak to the honors students at a local high school on the topic of excellence. The more I thought about it, the more I realized this is a topic for people who are searching for a job. Defining … Read More

Whether you’ve taken a less-senior position or started serving coffee to pay the bills, you can create the impression of career progress. We like to consider our careers a progression. And a progression only knows one direction. What happens when you have to make a career move that feels like a step sideways, backward or … Read More

Do you need to spend hours a day on some social networks channel or bopping from Facebook and LinkedIn to Twitter? Do you need to tweet? … Read More

Don’t give up! Here’s how to tweak your resume and try again. She was a senior human-resources professional who was laid off in summer 2009 from her job at large hospital in Texas. After the layoff, she did everything she knew from her years in HR would help her land a job. She woke early … Read More