Laid Off: What to Do in the First Two Weeks
An ordered fourteen-day plan, from what to get in writing before your access is cut to the rhythm your search should settle into.
Turning Points
Layoffs, career breaks, changing track at 40, the first job and the last posting.
Changing Careers After 40: What Transfers and What Does Not
Judgment and stakeholder skill travel with you. Title, seniority and sometimes salary do not. Plan for both.
Your First Job After College When Entry-Level Roles Are Scarce
The broad entry-level tier for new college grads has thinned. Here is where employers are still hiring people with no experience, and what to send them.
Your First 90 Days in a New Job
The instinct to prove yourself by fixing things early is the most reliable way to fail a probationary period.
Leaving the Military: Translating Service Into a Civilian Resume
The experience transfers almost entirely. The vocabulary does not. Most of the work is translation, and it is learnable in two weeks.
How to Return to Work After a Career Break
The reason for the gap matters less than you think. The mechanics of the return are the same either way.
How to Resign Without Burning It Down
The two weeks after you resign shape your reference for a decade, and most people spend them thinking the job is already over.
How to Negotiate an Offer Without Losing It
The offer stage is the only point in the process where your leverage is real, and most candidates spend it on the wrong things.
Elsewhere on the Desk
Interviews
The 12 Questions Hiring Decisions Actually Turn On
Interviewers ask thirty questions and decide on about four of them. These are the ones that carry the weight.
Job Search
Ten Good Applications Beat a Hundred Rushed Ones
The math of response rates explains why volume applying feels productive and almost never is.
Interviews
Panel Interviews: How to Read the Room
A panel is not one interview with more people. It is three or four separate scorecards, and each panelist is grading something different.