Category Archives: management issues

Always Be Job Hunting Excerpt: Landing a Management Job

Today, we continue to run excerpts from my new book, Always Be Job Hunting to give you the flavor of the book and encourage you to check it out on Amazon.com Chapter 3: Finding a First Management Job Once I … Continue reading

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Who’s the Boss? The Supreme Court is About to Tell You

It might sound like a technicality, but the court’s decision will impact your worker rights, so it’s worth keeping on eye on it to see the result. Check here for updates as they become available. Continue reading

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Missing HoHos Yet? How about the 18,000 Jobs that Went With Them?

The brand likely will be bought by another company now, I’m hoping they change and cheapen the formula to make them less desirable to me. Continue reading

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How Can You Help Hurricane Sandy Victims?

My high school in New York City reports that some 80 students in its school community are without homes now. Just writing that makes my heart ache for them. I have donated to the relief fund and urge you all to do the same Continue reading

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How Do You Go Back to Work After a Major Health Problem?

A week was enough time to recover physically, my surgeon assured me. What about emotionally? That isn’t his department, it;s something I, or you, have to address after such a traumatic event. Continue reading

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Should Marissa Mayer Have Been Job Hunting While Pregnant?

Should Marissa Mayer have been job hunting while pregnant? My answer is of course she should, my book is called “Always Be Job Hunting,” after all. Continue reading

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Guest Post: Don’t Be Thrown By a Career Setback

Tony and I do the blog GuysandGoodHealth.com, writing about men, health and eating there. This post ran on that blog but is relevant to AlwaysBeJobHunting.com too and so we are rerunning it here. At the beginning of my career I … Continue reading

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When is it Time to Walk Away from a Job?

Most people are so happy to find a job, especially in this horrible economy, that they don’t give much thought to knowing when it’s time to walk away from a job. But it’s important to know when to do that, … Continue reading

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The Budget Challenge Once You Have a New Job

The lesson for others: getting a job is a battle. As a manager, functioning in a new job also is a battle. Continue reading

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How Stressful Can a New Job Be?

I started a new job, and a new career, in mid-February and for the first few months spent time trying to learn a mountain of new procedures, forms and jargon. I was managing a veteran team of three who, more … Continue reading

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