by Barbara Safani | Jul 6, 2010 | career management
I was recently interviewed by CBS news about unpaid internships. There was a time when the only people who sought out unpaid internships were students who wanted to gain valuable work experience and were willing to forgo a salary to get it. But in today’s...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 28, 2010 | interviews
My daughter landed a plum internship this summer as an assistant to a musical director and casting director for the national tour of a very well known Broadway musical. On her first day she observed a typical theater audition, cattle-call style and in less than eight...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 24, 2010 | resume
Sometimes when I write a resume for a client, I include an excerpt from the performance review as a strategy to better market the client. Occasionally when I use this technique, I get some push back from clients. The response is often, “I’ve never seen...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 21, 2010 | career management
According to the most recent report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more employees left their jobs voluntarily in March (1.9M) than were laid off (1.8M). You may be wondering why so many are quitting their jobs in what is still a volatile economy, but the...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 18, 2010 | networking
Many people think that networking during a job search means calling everyone you know and asking them for a job. They associate networking with being pushy, overbearing, and an overall pest. People often shy away from networking because they don’t want to be...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 17, 2010 | career management
This month’s Career Collective topic is How to Heat Up Your Job Search. As we approach the hot days of summer, my clients sometimes tell me they plan to put their job search on hold during the summer months because they think that everyone is out of town and no...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 17, 2010 | career management, resume
When hiring managers read resumes, one of the first things they look at is dates of employment. If they see multiple short employment stints, they will often assume that you are a job hopper, question your ability to stay at one company for long, and move on to the...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 3, 2010 | career management
I’m sitting in my office crying. I’m crying because I just read an article in the recent issue of New York Magazine about a student who plunged to his death by jumping out of an 11th floor window at his school 16 months ago. This is not the first time...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 2, 2010 | career management
As a kid growing up in the 70s, a lot of the pop culture I embraced revolved around famous people who were married and worked together. I watched Sonny & Cher, sang the number one hit song by Captain & Tennille incessantly, watched every I Love Lucy re-run I...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 1, 2010 | career management, networking, on-line identity
According to Human Resource Executive Online, Brelyn Hammernik, a technical recruiter, was recently sued by her former company, TEKsystems, an IT staffing firm, after she sent messages to members of her LinkedIn network — members who also happened to be current...