Resources for California workers If you have lost your job or had a reduction in hours as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, you can apply for the State’s unemployment program. You can find more information or apply online now. California Employment Development Department (EDD) COVID-19 page: https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019.htm EDD page to file an Unemployment Insurance…
Every year, the Easter Bunny stashes eggs throughout our home. Every year, our children wake us near dawn, straining at the leash. This means I’ve been up at dark-thirty filling and hiding eggs and want nothing more than to go back to bed. Much like Christmas as an adult, come to think of it… …
It’s Opening Day of the 2019 baseball season. With that, all teams are tied for the pennant race. Everyone’s got hopes. And I think there’s a lesson here for everyone engaged in a job search as well. One way to look at baseball is as an exercise in perseverance. A great player might have a…
I’m convinced that most of the people calling for infographic resumes are the people selling infographic resumes. Not employers. Here’s an article describing several cases against littering your resume with charts and graphs–and if you’re going to anyway, how to do it right. Protip: don’t eat the crayons. http://www.fastcompany.com/3037764/hit-the-ground-running/how-to-create-an-infographic-resume-that-doesnt-repel-hiring-managers
It’s obvious, when you think about it, that your resume and your job search is an exercise in selling. But there are many different kinds of selling. In “Simple Daily Habits of the Delightfully Successful”, HubSpot’s Dharmesh Shah presents a working definition of sales that doesn’t sacrifice your self-respect: …Not used car-style sales. Selling doesn’t involve…
Apparently Thomas Edison invented bizarre interview questions, too. Could you score the required 90% or better with questions like these? Who was Francis Marion? Where is the River Volga? Who invented logarithms? What is the first line in The Aeneid? What war material did Chile export to the Allies during the War? Where is the…