Frequently Asked Job Search Questions and Answers. Lawrence M. Light, a job coach with over fifteen year’s experience who has helped many different types of individuals through their career transitions, answers your questions. Some questions were submitted during the recent Webinar conducted by InternsOverForty; others are common questions that job seekers ask regularly. We welcome your questions…
Frequently Asked Job Search Questions and Answers. Lawrence M. Light, a job coach with over fifteen year’s experience who has helped many different types of individuals through their career transitions, answers your questions. Some questions were submitted during the recent Webinar conducted by InternsOverForty; others are common questions that job seekers ask regularly. We…
From the desk of Lawrence M. Light, Creator of eJobCoach.com. Since this is my first post as a Guest Contributor to Interns Over 40, I thought it appropriate to start off with what is undoubtably the most important thing to understand as a job-hunter in this terrible economic time, with too many people (who are…
Whatever Happened to my Resume? Astronomers define a black hole as a region of space from which nothing, including light, can escape. I have often heard job seekers refer to the application process as a “black hole where resumes go, never to be heard from again”. Did you ever wonder why this is? Considering the…
Whenever Robert Skladany conducts workshops for job seekers over age 50, he hears one word again and again: résumés. Among the men and women in these groups – some unemployed, others reentering the workforce – a common concern predominates. “They feel they are not at all familiar with contemporary résumés,” says Mr. Skladany, vice president…
Looking for talent? The smartest employers, who hire the best people, recruit a pre-qualified candidate pool of potential employees before they need to fill a job. Or, as Harvey Mackay, well-known, irreverent, author and speaker, says about networking, Dig Your Well, Before You’re Thirsty. You can develop relationships with potential candidates long before you need them.…
Whatever Happened to my Resume? Astronomers define a black hole as a region of space from which nothing, including light, can escape. I have often heard job seekers refer to the application process as a “black hole where resumes go, never to be heard from again”. Did you ever wonder why this is? Considering the…
