It’s absolutely crucial to avoid isolation when you’re job searching. For many people, a job brings structure, friendships and social interaction as well as an income. So, when you lose your job, you also lose day to day structure and opportunities for social interaction.
It can be so easy to end up spending a [...]

In the book Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, author Seth Godin talks about the importance of being remarkable. He’s talking about building a business and marketing a product, but this advice applies to job searching too. After all, when you’re job searching you are marketing a product (you) to employers.
According [...]

In the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath describe the core qualities of memorable ideas. While this is not a job search book, a lot of their concepts can be applied to your job search.
Specifically, the authors assert that “sticky ideas” are often [...]