Are You Going “Goblin Mode” in Your Career?
Here’s How to Get Out

It’s 2 p.m. on a Wednesday and you’re still in your pajamas, your hair uncombed. You’re in your home office (read: at your kitchen table) idly refreshing your work email—clicking the button but not focusing on the screen. The text messages notifications have been stacking up on your phone and no part of your...

Yes, You Can Put a Career Break on Your Resume. Here’s How.

I’ve coached hundreds of job seekers over the past six years, but never have I seen more of them returning to work after months- or years-long career breaks than I have recently. For example, I work with moms whose career plans got dashed by the pandemic and with immigrants who need a minute to settle their...

“Weak Ties” Might Be the Key to Your Job Search,
New Research Says

If you’re looking for a job, reaching out to people in your network you barely know may not be your first instinct. However, according to a recent study, that’s exactly what you should do. The paper, published in Science, found that having weaker ties in your network can help you get a new job, finally proving the “strength of weak ties” theory...

7 Tips for Creating Effective
Return-to-Work Policies for Women

What if you could return to work after taking care of a child or an extended leave of absence on your own terms? Sure, there would still be return-to-work policies you would need to follow, but ultimately, you would have more autonomy over what your return would look like. Sounds pretty awesome, right? Of course it does! But...

Your Essential Guide to Driving Your Own Career Growth: 4 Steps to Figuring Out What You Want

You might feel like you have no control over your own career growth, between a fluctuating economy, few chances to move up at work, and that pesky imposter syndrome (which up to 75 percent of women have reported experiencing). But, there’s hope! By putting a few tried-and-true strategies (along with some...

How to Ask for a Letter of Recommendation
(Example Included!)

Congratulations! You've made it to the final interview rounds, and the recruiter requested a letter of recommendation. Names of people who know your qualifications and accomplishments start to pop into your head; they'd be perfect for this task. There's only one hurdle: You don't know...

Here's When And When Not To
Follow Up After A Job Interview

After your job interview ends, your hard work is not over. Ideally, you want to keep the conversation going with a hiring team so that you can stay at the forefront of their minds. Oftentimes, that means sending a brief follow-up email about your enthusiasm for the job. You want to be memorable ―

Your Guide to Resume Margins—No, You Shouldn’t Make Them Tiny Just to Cram Everything In

Even if you feel like you have the content of your resume down, you might still have questions about resume formatting—including everything to do with the margins of your document. You might be wondering about the standard size for resume margins. Or maybe you know that you want to...

Here’s How to Craft a Compelling Answer to “What Does Customer Service Mean to You?” in a Job Interview

If you’re unprepared, an interview question like “What does customer service mean to you?” could catch you off guard. Is your interviewer asking you if you understand your own profession? Or are they looking for a personal confession of what your job or career path mean to you? Well, it’s actually...

Job Hopping May Be the Ultimate Career Hack for
Millennials and Zoomers Trying To Climbing the Corporate Ladder

For many years, job hopping was seen as a red flag to employers, but that perception is steadily changing. According to one Gallup report, just half of millennials strongly agree that they see themselves working at the company they’re with right now; in fact, 60% of millennials say they are open to...