Adam – Page 2 – The Confident Career

June 17, 2014 Adam

83% of Job Seekers Have This in Common [Infographic]

Apparently, when it comes to the online job search, two – or three! – devices are better than one. A recent Nexxt survey found that 83% of job seekers use a smartphone or tablet to search for jobs. Most still

A group of people standing next to each other with their arms around each other

May 21, 2014 Adam

Why Connections Matter and How to Get More of Them

There’s an interesting post on the Humans of New York blog this week that pinpoints one of the biggest challenges job seekers face: networking. The subject seems to be a struggling job seeker himself, lamenting that: “It’s hard to be

May 2, 2014 Adam

3 Ways to Close the Confidence Gap

I think we can all agree that confidence plays a major part in career success, starting with the job search process. It’s also pretty clear that for all our advances in the workplace, women still haven’t quite caught up with

April 23, 2014 Adam

Running, Resilience and Your Career

This post is about facing challenges and setbacks, and ironically, we had some on Monday (and Tuesday) when we originally tried to post this. Our blog host was down, but fortunately we’re back up and running now. And, even though

Edgar Allen Poe with the words "Have your resume ignored? NEVERMORE!"

April 17, 2014 Adam

Resume Advice from. . . Edgar Allan Poe?!

When you created (or last updated) your resume, did you open up a word document and start typing in or editing bullets? If you are like most people, you didn’t spend time planning your resume so much as you started

March 31, 2014 Adam

Working Parents: Gwyneth Paltrow Envies You

Image by Andrew Halpern [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons If there were an Oscar for Most Delusional and Out of Touch Comments in a Television Interview, it would go to Gwyneth Paltrow. In a recent interview with E! discussing her