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Resources for Landing A Job During COVID
LEARN MORE ➞: Resources for Landing A Job During COVIDAre you losing faith in your job search? Things were smooth sailing last January. Maybe you were projecting your best year ever!…
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How To Ace Your Zoom Interview
LEARN MORE ➞: How To Ace Your Zoom Interview“Video interviewing” is a whole different ball of wax than a traditional interview. This article covers easy ways to ace your Zoom…
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Am I Depressed? No Motivation To Job Search
LEARN MORE ➞: Am I Depressed? No Motivation To Job SearchDepressed. Unemployed. No energy to look for a job. Does this sound familiar? Dear Sarah, I lost my job back in June.…
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Best Job Search Advice to Help You Find a Job— “The Kitchen Sink”
LEARN MORE ➞: Best Job Search Advice to Help You Find a Job— “The Kitchen Sink”If you are looking for a new job, it can feel overwhelming. If you “Google” the term “job search,” you will see…
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How to request an informational interview
LEARN MORE ➞: How to request an informational interviewInformational interviews are an opportunity to informally gather information about a job that you’re interested in, an industry that you’re interested in,…
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How to Land a Job at Facebook, Amazon and Google
LEARN MORE ➞: How to Land a Job at Facebook, Amazon and GoogleA job search can feel daunting. A job search with the goal of ending up at top tech company like Facebook, Amazon…
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5 Job Seekers Doing Things Differently (And How You Can, Too!)
LEARN MORE ➞: 5 Job Seekers Doing Things Differently (And How You Can, Too!)Read on to learn about the tactics job seekers are using to stand out in a competitive job market.
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Acing an Interview with Positive Self-Talk
LEARN MORE ➞: Acing an Interview with Positive Self-TalkOne of the things that people find most difficult to talk about in interviews is… themselves. Yes, it’s harder than you might…
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To the Class of 2020 from the students who graduated during the Great Recession
LEARN MORE ➞: To the Class of 2020 from the students who graduated during the Great RecessionYour job search may be more challenging than students who graduated the year before you, but the lemons you are being served…
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The Best Free Career Resources Out Now
LEARN MORE ➞: The Best Free Career Resources Out NowLooking for high-quality career advice and materials available online, but don’t have a large budget to work with? The Briefcase Coach has…
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Coronavirus: The Expert’s Practical Guide to Job Searching During Self Containment
LEARN MORE ➞: Coronavirus: The Expert’s Practical Guide to Job Searching During Self ContainmentCovid-19 Job Search Advice from 9 Career Experts In the last two weeks, the United States has flipped upside down in the…
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We were voted a top 100 career blog!
LEARN MORE ➞: We were voted a top 100 career blog!The Briefcase Coach was just voted a Top 100 Career Blog! Feedspot.com puts out an annual list of the best career websites…
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Land a job by mind mapping your network
LEARN MORE ➞: Land a job by mind mapping your networkMind Mapping Networks The Impeccable Strategy to Find a Job The first thing people do to search for a job is go…
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Squiggly Careers
LEARN MORE ➞: Squiggly CareersWhy “Squiggly Careers” is my favorite buzz word for 2019 My favorite career buzzword for 2019 is “Squiggly Careers”. I have to…
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Be the purple Skittle in a bag of M&Ms
LEARN MORE ➞: Be the purple Skittle in a bag of M&MsWHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND DURING A JOB SEARCH When Vanshika Mehta was job searching, she branded herself…
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Why you should send “fan mail” or gratitude letters
LEARN MORE ➞: Why you should send “fan mail” or gratitude lettersI MAILED A FAN LETTER YESTERDAY TO SOMEONE WHO IS A REALLY BIG DEAL. My daughter, who is 5, spent over an…
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The Early Bird Gets the Worm
LEARN MORE ➞: The Early Bird Gets the WormMy good friend, who is the Queen of Yard Sales, often says that the “Early Bird Gets the Worm”. According to, this…
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E-mail Subject Lines: Think Like a Marketer
LEARN MORE ➞: E-mail Subject Lines: Think Like a MarketerRunning a strategic job search means that sometimes you need to send cold e-mails to people that you don’t know asking for…
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Comprehensive guide to getting a job at a startup
LEARN MORE ➞: Comprehensive guide to getting a job at a startupHow to get a job at a good startup company ACCORDING TO A 2016 STUDY BY ACCENTURE, ONLY 14% OF U.S. GRADUATES…
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Ask for the raise.
LEARN MORE ➞: Ask for the raise.You’ve been out performing your colleagues for months. You’ve put in long hours, hit all your target numbers….& you know that you…
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Why I love behavioral interviews (VIDEO)
LEARN MORE ➞: Why I love behavioral interviews (VIDEO)You know what I love?? BEHAVIORAL BASED INTERVIEWS! Behavioral based interviews are often fairly predictable, the STAR method is an excellent formula…
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Don’t crowd source your career
LEARN MORE ➞: Don’t crowd source your careerRaise your hand if you crowd source advice? <????guilty here> Webster’s Dictionary defines crowd sourcing as: the practice of obtaining information or…
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How the NCAA bracket challenge correlates with your job search
LEARN MORE ➞: How the NCAA bracket challenge correlates with your job searchI am in an NCAA bracket competition with some of the greatest minds in sports. Long story short, my first job out…
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Digital First
LEARN MORE ➞: Digital FirstChew on this. In modern times, an in-person impression is formed AFTER a digital impression. (thanks William Arruda for that lightbulb moment…
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