A Master’s in Machine Learning and Unemployable?

Yet More Questions My Clients Asked Me

Mistakes in Networking

When Someone "Fails to Launch"

Waiting for the Answer: A short-short story

Work as a Way to Heal: Finding well-suited work and the motivation to pursue it.

Work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths— Eleanor Roosevelt

Many more people find that well-suited work not only brings in money and provides meaning, it can be healing. My Psychology Today article today offers relatively easy ways to find well-suited work and to find the motivation to pursue it.

Finding a Good Job: A composite case study that embeds eight key principles and practices

My Psychology Today article today offers a first-person report that's a composite of my clients' experiences that embeds eight key principles, practical and psychological, for landing a good job. After, I call those out.

"I'm Over 60 and No One Wants to Hire Me"

My Psychology Today article today tackles the challenge of older people trying to be hired. I do so with a client case study, which embeds suggestions.

A Tormented Liberal and a Tormented Conservative Job Seeker

My career counseling practice isn’t immune from today’s political polarization. While many of my clients are politically moderate or apolitical, I have clients on both political poles, and they tend to be angst-filled.

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers composite letters from a tormented liberal and from a tormented conservative, followed by my responses

Networking for Fast Results

My Psychology Today article today offers an approach to networking that has worked for a number of my clients.

Career Gray Areas: Adapting conventional advice to your situation

Clients prefer crisp, clear answers. Alas, especially in the counseling professions but even in medicine, there’s much gray. Here are some gray areas in my field: career counseling. These may help you as you make your career choices.

A Gentle Approach to Finding a Job

Even if you could snooker an employer, I make a plea in my Psychology Today article today for a gentle, honest job search. Not only will you sleep better and be able tell your kids how you job-searched, you’ll more likely be offered a job at which you’ll succeed, and have a boss who expects a normal human being, not a superstar.

Networking for Fast Results

Everyone knows that especially in our COVID-tightened job market, networking is key to landing a good job. My Psychology Today article today offers an approach to networking that has worked for a number of my clients.

If I Got Corona-Cut: What I'd Do to Land a Job Fast

Amid the millions who’ve lost their job because of the economic shutdown, knowing what I know as a career counselor, my Psychology Today article today describes what I’d do.

Resume Fixes

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I describe the most common flaws in my clients' resumes and how you can avoid them.

Evaluating Your Current or Prospective Job

Sometimes, it’s hard to get clear on what’s truly important in a job. So, many people default to money and status. 

The list I offer in my PsychologyToday.com article today may be more helpful in deciding whether, when today, when unemployment is at a 50-year low, to stay in your current job or to seek greener pastures. And if you're a less-than-ideal employer, perhaps it will give you a gentle nudge.

How Job Seekers Can Foil Employer Ploys

I sit on both sides of the table, so I too often see dubious and sometimes outright dishonest tactics from both the employer and the job seeker.

In the spirit of encouraging the best people to get hired by the most worthy employers, here are tactics I’ve often observed and how to preempt or counter them. Today’s Psychology Today article describes employer ploys and how to foil them. 

Tomorrow, I plan to post an article describing job-seeker ploys and how employers can foil them.

Dismissed or Demoted and Dispirited Five tips embedded in a story.

I’ve previously offered tips for people who’ve been dismissed, for example, 55 and “Laid Off.” Now What?

But some people learn more when tips are embedded in context, hence as my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer a composite story.

Should You Take That Job? The art of vetting a position

So many people begin a job with high hopes only soon to have them dashed: a bad boss, cold workplace, poor ethics. job description changed for the worse.

Given that, I’ve been surprised at how poorly most job seekers vet prospective employers. My PsychologyToday.com article today offers tips on how to do it well.

The Emotional Gas Tank: How job seekers can avoid running out of gas

Every job seeker starts their search with a full tank of emotional gas. With each rejection or getting ignored, some gas is burned. 

My PsychologyToday.com article today should boost your chances of landing a job before you run out of gas.