Filling out an application can be filled with land mines if you’re conducting a confidential search, and filling in an application online can be even trickier if the fields require a certain type of answer before letting you progress. This topic was a recent conversation on one of my professional e-lists, and what follows is…

As a member of the Career Collective, a blogging community of resume writers and career coaches, this article is one of many in support of Quintessential Careers’ 2nd annual “Job Action Day”. I encourage you to follow our hash tag: #careercollective on Twitter and visit my colleagues’ responses posted at the end of this article. Have you been…

Our guest author today is Nadia Crum, a young military wife, mother of two, and author of the blog, A-B-C Frugality, where she shares her tips on how to survive – and thrive – on a shoestring budget.Gone are the days when the white collar was a safety net of employment; when employment was an assumed privilege of a…

A colleague and friend of mine, Erin Kennedy, CPRW, CERW, shared a smart revelation in a recent blog post. As parents, we focus on celebrating our children’s victories, but what about our own? At the end of a busy day, we tend to brush our own achievements under the rug. True, but not very fair, is it?…