Everybody Needs a Second Income Stream One income stream isn’t enough anymore. Jobs disappear. Layoffs happen. The economy shifts. The smartest professionals I know have an extra “oar in the water”—a second source of income they control. That’s what career coaching gives you:

A story from LinkedIn News today is about how recruiters are frustrated by candidates using AI in their applications. The irony is off the charts. The recruiting process has become steadily more robotic and less human over the past 25 years – and now employers are complaining

The double standard! The disrespect. ”We have no problem insulting you with an AI interview because we do not have time to actually talk to you, but how dare you consider using AI from your side of the desk?”

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This is absolutely astounding. All five minutes of it.

🚨NEW: Zohran Mamdani has won the democratic primary for Mayor of New York, beating Andrew Cuomo and stunning the nation with this victory. RETWEET to congratulate Zohran Kwame Mamdani on making history!

Zohran is a better speaker than Obama.

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SHOULD I TELL THEM THE TRUTH? Q. Hi Liz, I had a phone screen, took two online tests, had three zoom interviews, two in person interviews and a completed a massive take home assignment and then I got ghosted. The recruiting process was mismanaged from the start. Today I

When you lose all your confidence and self-esteem in one moment – either due to a job loss or getting so bad at work that you have to quit without a Plan B – what do you do? Here’s the story: linkedin.com/pulse/what-do-…

What do I do about no-show candidates? Q. Hi Liz, there have always been no-show candidates but now there are more than ever. It’s ridiculous. When I get on a zoom interview, I don’t even expect the candidate to be there. What can I do to solve this problem? A. Luckily, it

Q. Hi Liz, why do I feel like sometimes interviewers dislike me right away and challenge everything I say? In those cases it seems like the interviewer is hostile from the start. Is it something about me that rattles them? A. Absolutely, you can easily intimidate an interviewer

BREAKING: A new mural in France depicts Lady Liberty covering her face in shame, unveiled a day before Independence Day. She was a gift from France who once welcomed the tired and poor. Now she hides from what we’ve become.

In my experience at least 50% of PIPs spring from a simple personality clash between the manager and the employee. You might call it an energetic misalignment. Another 25% or more of PIPs come from inadequate training, guidance and/or tools. And of course, many PIPs are the

The way I was taught to get a job, the way virtually all of us were taught to get a job is 100% ineffective now. It doesn’t work at all. You can’t spray out resumes and wait for someone to get back to you. You have to go about a job search differently these days. You have to

More than 880,000 workers will get a raise this summer due to state minimum wage increases. Anyone upset about this should consider the following: If the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

If only there was some kind of government agency assigned to monitor and give advance warning. Something like a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That would be a great agency to fund well and never gut it's funding to give early warning to save lives in these