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Patriots win in overtime, you win in February

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…

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.

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…

The best employers and recruiters in the country for you in April 2016

To start April, we’d like to congratulate the best HR people and recruiters in the country! Each quarter, Ladders puts together the list of the best employers and executive recruiters in the nation. The…

Hired! for March 2016

Thousands of your Ladders members found new jobs in March!

For the sixth year in a row since the recession, activity is way up on Ladders. HR people and recruiters were 60% more active this year compared to last year.

Photos of your friends at Ladders

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

To get hired, don’t do “anything”

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

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…

The 21 questions you need to ask in a job interview

It’s time for my twice-a-year update of the best questions for you to ask in an interview.

I’ve put this list together because so often we can forget what an interview’s all about. It sure feels like it’s about you…

My single best career tip

In the decade I’ve been writing on career advice, the single best tip I’ve given, that has come back to me over, and over, and over again, is this:

When it gets to that part of the interview with your future boss where they ask, “well, do you have any…