Increasingly, I’m hearing from readers who prefer AI-led hiring to the traditional human-led process. In all fairness, most of my readers tend to be early adopters of technology rather than fighting the inevitable. They cite several distinct advantages: Elimination of unconscious human bias: AI evaluates your data, not your pedigree. 24/7 scheduling flexibility: You interview on your Read More…
It’s no secret that a large percentage of resumes and LinkedIn profiles are fiction, rife with exaggerations and outright lies. According to a 2024 ResumeLab study, 70% of employees admitted to lying on their resumes, particularly about job duties and technical skills. A further case in point: a 2025 Checkr report found that 60% of hiring managers have Read More…
Many job seekers cling to a fantasy that employers reward effort and that ‘trying your best’ will lead to being hired. If recruiters and hiring managers aren’t responding to your applications, or you’re getting interviews, but no job offers, it’s safe to say you’re not giving employers compelling reasons to hire you. Increasingly, your value Read More…
If I had a nickel for every time a job seeker told me, “I’m doing everything right! Why am I not getting hired?” I’d be writing this column from a Southern California beachfront house. Most job seekers aren’t doing everything right. They’re doing what’s comfortable and easy, and what self-proclaimed career coaches tell them to Read More…
In 2026, being ‘qualified’ is merely the price of entry into the job market. A major challenge for job seekers is that hiring managers are inundated with AI-slop, creating ‘all the same’ applications that are not only uninspiring, but also render a candidate’s qualifications invisible. Nowadays, job seekers need a job search strategy that catches Read More…
Expectations are resentments in the making. Many job seekers today enter the job market with an inflated sense of entitlement, expecting employers to prioritize their self-interests over their own. Instead, they’re experiencing a fiercely competitive environment where emotions are decimated, and proving your value to an employer’s profitability is your only currency for getting hired. Read More…
Whether it’s a scuffed kitchen table, a varnish-bare desk in the corner of your bedroom or a sterile cubicle at your local library, the posture is the same: a defeated, oxygen-starved hunch while scrolling through LinkedIn and other job boards, hitting the ‘Easy Apply’ button with the persistence of a gambler on a 12-hour losing Read More…
Having a resume and LinkedIn profile that clearly showcase your qualifications and a track record of driving profitability is merely the prerequisite for securing an interview; being a ‘culture fit’ is what ultimately gets you hired. Being a culture fit isn’t just a vague platitude; it’s an employer’s safeguard. The last thing a hiring manager Read More…
Every second you spend on LinkedIn “raising awareness” about how the hiring system is supposedly broken or ranting about unicorn-hunting recruiters is a second you’re choosing to stay unemployed. Employers don’t care about your grievances; they have a business to run within the constraints of economic realities. By publicly and privately resisting the transactional realities Read More…
Spend any time on LinkedIn, and you’ll notice the self-proclaimed “gurus” preaching about tailoring your resume for every job you apply for. Repeating themselves endlessly, they promote the unsubstantiated self-serving narrative that if job seekers don’t customize every bullet point of their resume to match the keywords in a job description, their application will vanish Read More…
When it comes to my The Art of Finding Work columns, none of what I write is theoretical for me. It took me about 20 years into my career to grasp the importance employers place on value-add. Before this realization, I intellectualized my experience, which was of no value to an employer. I believe two Read More…
