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You’ve probably heard this line before:
No one hires during the holidays.
It’s nonsense. While it’s true that hiring may slow down for some industries, hiring tends to happen along a fiscal year, not a calendar year. If a company’s fiscal year and calendar year are aligned, and they’ve run out of money for new headcount, they...

Years ago, I had the pleasure of working with a young woman who was smart, funny, hard-working, and capable. For some reason, however, her projects were consistently ineffective—some were downright failures. When I started poking into the reasons for...

As we approach the holidays and start to look toward 2019, many of us will be thinking about making resolutions. Aside from the ubiquitous (and usually short-lived) resolutions to lose weight and exercise, many career-minded people will also be resolving...

A few years ago, a colleague of mine (let’s call him Josh) completely upended his life. He was newly divorced, hated his job, and wanted to move to a different state. He woke up one morning and thought, “I don’t want this life anymore.”
In that same position, most of us would take the long way ’round; we’d figure out where we wanted to live, try to see if we could find a job opening there, maybe start applying for a few jobs, even if they weren’t directly in our field or didn’t quite...