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The under-appreciated job search tool: a mirror

Let’s face it, the professional job search is a heck of a lot longer, more tedious, and more frustrating than any of us can bear.

Between ducking out for lunch-time interviews and cranking through networking calls, your…

Bad news, you just got one year’s severance

Sometimes bad news comes in the prettiest packages. One of the commonest I see in the careers business is the generous severance payout. What seems like a gift from the highest graces too often turns out to be bad tidings in disguise.

What are you willing to struggle for?

Advice from Theodore Roosevelt on July 4th:

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the…

Even a genius has to sell himself… the remarkable resume of Leonardo da Vinci

Before he was famous, before he painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, before he invented the helicopter, before he drew the most famous image of man, before he was all of these things…

To get hired, don’t do “anything”

“Oh, I’m looking for anything,” you might tell your well-meaning friends who ask.

Photos of your friends at Ladders

Each year I take you “behind the scenes” to show you the people and faces behind Ladders…

The Boy Who Followed Someone Else’s Dream

A bright young woman dropped by my office one day a few years ago. She was smart and educated and clever and fantastic. Which was wonderful because she was interviewing for a role. On my team! Working with me! And I love working with smart people.

14 ideas for what to say when a job interviewer asks “any questions for me?”

So you managed to get through a phone screen, ten resume revisions, and a lot of anxious moments when you were convinced they were ignoring you. Or at least playing hard to get so that you’d be…

A free, modern, beautiful way to write your resume well

We launched the world’s best resume writer this morning. Based on our decade-plus of experience helping America’s top professionals, we’ve put all of our best thinking into Resume Builder, available here at www.theladders.com/resume…