Let’s kick off this post with a note I recently received from a client: “Matt: Had a weird thing happen to me recently I wanted to pass along. I landed an interview with an HR person at a company I’ve had my eye on for a while. After the meeting, the HR person thanked me […]
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Top 10 Career Tips for Young Professionals
March 12, 2013 
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Tell you what, I’ll meet you halfway on this. Having recently been asked by a local non-profit to prepare a presentation on the “Top 10 Tips for Young Professionals” to be delivered in April, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on the best advice I could give to aspiring professionals who are just starting […]
Read morePenelope Trunk: Kook or Futurist Extraordinaire?
January 29, 2013 0 Comments
Given the billions of bytes of fairly ho-hum content out there in the blogosphere, especially about career matters, I can’t help but give credit where credit is due — and salute Penelope Trunk of Brazen Careerist fame for continuing to “bring it” time and time again — and for boldly going where no business or […]
Read moreLooking for Great Places to Work in Seattle?
January 11, 2013 2 Comments
In my line of business, you tend to hear about some pretty ugly employment situations. Many days, in fact, I thank my stars for being able to be self-employed, given that I get treated to so many stories of discrimination, bad behavior, and “conduct unbecoming” from employers and bosses out there in the marketplace. Makes […]
Read moreWorking at Microsoft: Tips & Realities
December 5, 2012 5 Comments
As you might imagine, being a Seattle-based career advisor, I’ve worked with hundreds of people over the years who have held jobs at Microsoft at some point or another, either as full-time employees or contractors. And how many opinions have I heard about what it’s like to work for the 37th-largest company in the country? […]
Read moreAge Discrimination: One Employer’s Rationalization
November 21, 2012 4 Comments
Hope everybody has some relaxing plans in store for the Thanksgiving holiday — and since I’m just getting ready to head out of town, myself, I thought I’d pass along an interesting blog thread regarding age discrimination that a client of mine recently brought to my attention. In the first link, below, you’ll see a […]
Read more12 Career Articles for Your Reading Pleasure
July 23, 2012 0 Comments
Hi folks! For those of you who regularly follow my blog, you’ve probably noticed that my article frequency has dropped off quite a bit in recent months. While you’re probably assuming that I’m just slacking off due to the summer weather, that’s only part of the explanation. And really just a small part, at that… […]
Read moreImprove Your Cyber-Sleuthing Skills!
July 10, 2012 0 Comments
Let’s face it. The Internet isn’t going away. And more and more, those individuals who know how to efficiently comb cyberspace to find precisely the information they might be looking for — be it job leads, target company ideas, Icelandic recipes, or the like — are going to have a distinct advantage over their professional […]
Read moreSix Cool Career Infographics
June 26, 2012 1 Comment
Visual learners, rejoice! Admist the sea of vanilla text out there that includes most of MY blog offerings, there are some more visionary souls among us who have done a great job of capturing some key career insights in “infographic” form. So for those of you out there that are like me, and always find […]
Read moreTop 10 “Rookie Job Hunter” Realizations
June 11, 2012 15 Comments
Having been in the career coaching field now for almost 20 years, I’ve ridden shotgun THOUSANDS of times on the job hunting process, helping people fire up their employment search and master the latest and greatest methods for tracking down new opportunities. One paradox that I’ve consistently witnessed, over all these years? Highly successful people […]
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