Tag Archives: career changes
Why Should You Buy Always Be Job Hunting?
And to give you a flavor for the book, I’ve assembled excerpts I published early in this blog’s existence onto a new page to make it easy for you to peer inside the book to read what you’ll find there. Continue reading
How Do You Start to Re-enter The Work World?
If you’re planning to leave the work world for any reason, Always Be Job Hunting by keeping current on who’s hiring, who’s expanding, etc., as I outline in my book, for the day when you do return. Continue reading
How Hard is It to Get Back in the Work Force?
How difficult is it to return to the workforce after a few years off? Very difficult but not impossible, as I detail about my own experience in Always Be Job Hunting. The Harvard Business Review’s November issue also looks at … Continue reading
Here Me Speak This Evening, Thursday, ay 7 p.m.
Hope to see many of you who are in the Chicago area at the meeting. The Bears are playing at the same time I start my talk, so we’ll see if I can draw at least a few interested job hunters away from their TV sets long enough to help them find their next jobs. Continue reading
Read the Book Bosses Don’t Want You To Read
Now I can tout the book as one bosses are afraid to have you read. I rather like that, expect to see me saying it more. Continue reading
Can You Find a New Job After Taking a Buyout?
A reader took a corporate buyout, thinking he would be able to find a new position in a different city. It didn’t work out that way, read some of the lessons he learned and how he’s adapted. Continue reading
Should Joel Ewanick Always Be Job Hunting?
The point is that everyone, no matter what level, should always be job hunting, always be thinking of a plan B should the job you have suddenly disappear. Even the mighty can fall. Continue reading
Guest Post Part III: What is a ‘Job’ Today?
One morning, tired of the traditional approach and with nothing left to lose, I put on a suit, commuted down the hall to my home office-studio and hired myself.
It wasn’t so much that I “formed a company with me as CEO,” as much as I stopped thinking of myself as “unemployed” or, even worse in my book, “retired.” Continue reading
Guest Post, Part II: What Does a Job Mean Today?
By the time I returned home late that night, my life and those of about 1,000 of my former colleagues had been dramatically altered. Our company had eliminated our jobs. Continue reading
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



