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The rules for a successful job search are different from those of the successful academic career. There’s only room for one person to succeed with any one job opening, and you don’t get an offer — or even an interview — just by being qualified.
When they know you’ve taken steps to safeguard your health, you’re telling them you’ve taken steps to safeguard their potential investment.
One of the first things you want to do when you get set up with LinkedIn is to take control of the address and shorten it. It’s easy.
If you’ve just lost your 40-hour-a-week job, you’ve just gained 40 hours per week to devote to your employment search. Use that time wisely, not only by scouring the job ads, but by learning how to plan your comeback.
An employer doesn’t care what they can do for your career any more than you care about what you can do for your dentist. You want to know what your dentist can do for you.
If the prospective employer and your résumé were strangers at a party, your cover letter would be the mutual friend who pulls the résumé over to the employer and says, “I have someone I’d like you to meet; I think you two would have plenty to talk about.”
If the prospective employer and your résumé were strangers at a party, your cover letter would be the mutual friend who pulls the résumé over to the employer and says, “I have someone I’d like you to meet; I think you two would have plenty to talk about.”
Did you have to think outside the brick-and-mortar when your business model became a violation of state health codes overnight? How did you do it?