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Should You Automate Your Job Search with AI?

In an answer – NO! I am definitely a proponent of AI in many areas, including research, but always caution to trust but verify what it gives you. However, it creates disaster for the job seeker, HR, and the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). From having numerous resumes and cover letters now looking eerily similar or […]

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Time Management Tip: Try Time Chunking

People often ask how I organize my time since I have a bit of a crazy schedule. From owning a full-time business, to public speaking, to being my church’s choir director, to volunteering and/or holding board memberships on multiple committees/boards around the Kansas City area, and helping out on my church’s website and social media,

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How Long Should You Have To Consider A Job Offer?

I saw an article today discussing how long you should take to consider a job offer, and wanted to put forth a few thoughts.  First, never be pressured on the spot at an interview to take a job, that is a huge warning sign that something is wrong in the organization.  If they can’t wait for a

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Adapt well to changing plans and priorities and deal comfortably with ambiguity: Who Writes This Stuff?

Well, this should NEVER be in a job ad: “Must adapt and deal comfortably with ambiguity.” However, I have been seeing it quite a bit in recent years.  Particularly since COVID.  That isn’t an excuse to put such a statement in a job ad.  Certainly, this occurs in a workplace occasionally, but ambiguity is defined

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Tech War for Talent – Is It Over?

Referencing comment to article on cooling of the war for tech talent, and they “why’s” behind it. Here are my observations as to why, and advice to keep it from happening to other companies, tech or otherwise: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/is-the-tech-war-for-talent-over-4827217/ So many startups were like many large companies prior to the great recession that started in 2006.

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The Ideal Work-Life Balance: Companies that are Getting It Right!

Thank you to Casandra Andrews and HerMoney.com for my latest interview with their publication. Here is the article in its entirety: Here’s how some companies are helping staff members strike a healthy balance between home life and their jobs. There’s nothing like living through nearly two years of a global health pandemic — with much

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