It has occured to me today that I’ve only ever seen a handful of articles about dealing with the inevitable, and sometimes devastating, rejection letter on a job search. Thinking about it I realized the reason for so few articles is that there isn’t really anything you can do about…

Building a resume is a skill. A learned skill, one that no one in the history of the world has ever been born with. It is okay if you feel like you suck at making them because everyone sucks at making them. They defy logic in some ways, as we…

Welcome to Part Three of the Occupational Misadventure series. Today we will be covering how to make your applications sound like they were written by Bill Shakespeare himself (minus the balcony scenes). If you stumbled upon this post looking for some help in how to actually fill out applications online…

Most of your time ‘on the job market’ is going to be spent performing redundant tasks that usually go nowhere, like Sisyphus pushing that rock up the hill over and over again, you will feel trapped in a purgatory from which escape seems impossible. The difference, of course, being that…

For the last decade or so I have been on the job hunt about once a year. I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree right at the bottom of this massive spike in unemployment in 2007. Within 3 years the effective unemployment rate in my state was 13.5%, but that was…