It’s already hard enough competing with the hundreds of other applicants fighting for the same job during this pandemic. …

With how many months we’re already into the pandemic, there’s no doubt that some of us are now facing that question head-on. My heroic peers who have hit or are already well into the three-digits of applications know that it’s a real reality to ask “when should I give up?”…

54 Online applications and 32 Referrals later, I finally have 2 interviews scheduled. For some additional context: I am in tech, working as a product manager with about 3~5 years of experience. “Brandname” university and tier-B companies on the resume for professional experience. And to expand on what I wrote…

And so it begins. I’ve recently started applying to jobs again — half to assess my professional market value and the other half to actually test the waters and see if there is a good opportunity to change companies (as you should if you can every few years!). And it…

Unfortunately, this articles come out too late for the readers who most need to read it. And that’s because we’re already a few months into our shelter-in-place orders no matter where in the world you are. …

A recent Quora question asked: What 3 skills should you have if you want your resume to be recession-proof? And that was such an interesting question. For me at least, I had always considered resumes to be things that were pretty much copy & paste. Find the template for our…

Now that states are reopening and many of us are looking to get back into the workforce, the inevitable question comes: What do we do if someone asks about why we’re unemployed? With how heavy employment is ingrained into us as one of the very core aspects of our being…

Networking sucks. Whether it’s done passively when you’re still working or actively when you’re aggressively looking for leads, there’s always this sense of grossness and artificiality. And that’s why it’s almost universally hated. I know I still dislike it, and there’s this little voice in the back of my head…

You need a professional presence. If you are in tech, business, or any other office work — or have plans to be — you need a presence online. Why? The reasons and trends of modernity that have led to this deserve an entire article of its own, but to put…