Good for GenY In The Workplace Is Good For Everyone
By Lisa Correu, Principal/Job Search Advocate AfterSchool Career Workshops
For the first time in history three generations of employees are working side by side. Baby Boomers met Generation X and now both are confronting GenY and scratching their heads. This seems rather silly since at one time Boomers and GenXers were the whippersnappers. Woodstock and Boy George anyone? So bring on the GaGa and let's have a party!
The 10-Minute Job Search-Why This Career?
By Lisa Correu, Principle/Job Search Advocate, AfterSchool Career Workshops
Photo Courtesy of Leo Reynolds
Welcome back to our series, “The Ten-Minute-Job-Search”. We’ve designed it to spare you from the self-harm and guilt that comes when time gets away from you and your job hunt. So just when you’re about to shut your hand in that drawer to atone just read on!
The Ten-Minute Job Search
By Lisa Correu, Principal/Job Search Advocate AfterSchool Career Workshops
Looking for a job doesn’t always have to be an all-day, um, job. There are things you can do in just a few minutes that will take the edge off the anxiety when you might not have time for a deeper commitment. Here are five things to choose from that you can do in ten minutes to keep your momentum going.
Photo Courtesy of Jon Jordan
Are You Afraid of Employment?
By Lisa Correu, Principal/Job Search Advocate, AfterSchool Career Workshops
Are you derailing your career before it’s even begun? On the outside do you look like a gung-ho job seeker, sending out resumes, networking with a vengeance and plotting world domination while on the inside (and in reality) you’re hesitating, procrastinating and really only plotting your next Facebook post? It happens a lot more than you think and one reason can be sheer size of scope.
Using Action Verbs To Dress Up Your Resume
By Lisa Correu, Principal/Job Search Advocate, AfterSchool Career Workshops
Once there was a little sentence that no one noticed. It was bland and boring and sort of sad. It lay on a resume just hoping to be noticed. People read it and then went on with their lives, never remembering what it said or even who wrote it. It was a lonely little sentence and when it finally admitted it needed help (for admitting you need help is the first step) it went looking for an active verb or two to turn its life around. It discovered an active verb list in the land of Internet and began to add them to itself. It ventured out and invited more active verbs to join it.
What If You Don’t Want a Job? (…Or Can’t Find a Job?) Consider Making Your Own.
By Kathryn Lorenzen, Principal/Career Development Coach
Not everyone is cut out to be an employee. Some people would rather gnaw off their own foot than sign on to someone else’s rules, mission, 
and payroll. They’d just feel too trapped or like they’d sold out.
And not everyone who wants a job upon graduation will be able to find one quickly. The unemployment rate for young adults age 20 to 24 is uncomfortably high (15.4%, by a recent government estimate, compared to 8.9% for the general population).
So, what’s the alternative? Since minimum-wage jobs will generally not allow you to be self-supporting, some new graduates make the decision to become entrepreneurs, providing a basic service to individuals or businesses. And some do quite well, thank you, as either a freelancer or a dedicated business.
What are the qualities that help you succeed if this is the road you choose, or that chooses you?
Know Your Industry And Impress Your Boss
By Lisa Correu, Principal/Job Search Advocate, AfterSchool Career Workshops
Are you up to speed on your industry? Do you know what the bigwigs are up to? If you want to catch the eye of your employer or interviewer and blow them away bring up current trends, recent market shifts or industry predictions and watch them melt into stunned little puddles of joy. When you can speak about matters pertinent to an entry-level position that's fabulous. When you can speak with knowledge about matters that go beyond your pay grade then that’s just fabulouser. Way fabulouser. Yes, I made that word up.
Would You Ask Employer to Plan Your Career?
By Lisa Correu, Principal/Job Search Advocate, AfterSchool Career Workshops
I think there’s a saying somewhere that trying to be all things to all people results in being no things to no people. I probably (undoubtedly) have that all wrong but you get the point. When I was recruiting for an ad agency I would frequently get resumes with covers that read, “I’m open to whatever you think I’d be qualified for.” Or something to that effect. I could only guess that their strategy was to be flexible and willing to help with whatever need that I might have.
This is wrong on about fifty-nine levels.