I have worked on a number of open jobs where the hiring manager or hiring authority has suggested that they’d prefer to hire someone who is already employed. In other words, they suggest that they’d prefer not to hire someone who is currently unemployed. In some rare cases, I’ve had hiring managers tell me to [...]

I recently got an email from a guy who had just experienced an interesting situation. He’d applied for a job before the stated deadline and when he didn’t hear back from the company he’d applied to, he contacted them to enquire about his candidacy. The hiring authority told him that his application had been received [...]

Adapting your approach is something you will need to do from time to time during your career. If your job search isn’t going well, doing the same thing over and over again probably doesn’t make any sense since you’ll probably just get the same (poor) result. During a job interview, you might need to change [...]