by Sheila Nielsen | Jun 18, 2015 | Job Search
“I am going to talk with everyone here at this event and ask each person if he or she has heard of a job.” I was at a fundraiser talking with an energetic young woman, I’ll call her Brittany, as we nibbled cheese and crackers. She was there with her mother who had...
by Sheila Nielsen | Jun 11, 2015 | Job Search
There are three big mistakes that many jobseekers routinely make that hurt their job searches. Don’t make them! 1. Too Much Time Responding to Online Job Postings Too many jobseekers plant themselves in front of their computers and spend hours and hours hunting for...
by Sheila Nielsen | Jun 4, 2015 | Job Search
Every workplace has people who can help you get past the castle gates and get you recognized by a hiring manager. Here’s a story from my practice; it’s an example of using rapid relationship and trust building to find gatekeepers to promote a job quest. It comes from...
by Sheila Nielsen | May 28, 2015 | Job Search
Aziz Ansari of Parks and Recreation fame has written a new book, Modern Romance, about love in the digital age. John Heilpern writes an interesting review of the book in Vanity Fair’s June edition. The meteoric rise of Match.com, OK Cupid, Tinder, and other online...
by Sheila Nielsen | May 7, 2015 | Job Search
Brené Brown talks about the power of being vulnerable in her 2010 Ted Talk. She originally set out to gather stories about how people react to questions about some of the deepest and most personal topics that give meaning to our lives. In the process she learned that...
by Sheila Nielsen | Apr 28, 2015 | Job Search
“There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow’ and soon...