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Continual Job Rejection: What Is an Older Candidate To Do?

by Karen Alphonse | Sep 17, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers

Q: I am older than 50, and I am having a difficult time accepting repeat rejections during my job search. It is frustrating and difficult to find meaningful work. What is an older employee to do in this economy? A: Your issue is well documented. A New York Times...

How Do We Ask Our Executive Director To Leave?

by Karen Alphonse | Sep 10, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Management, Recruiters

Q: I am a board member at a $10M non-profit in the North East. Our current Executive Director is coming up for review, and we are struggling with how to ask her to leave. The organization’s finances are in a pitiful state, morale is low, and, apparently, some key...

How To Handle Resistance In the Workplace

by Karen Alphonse | Aug 27, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Management

Q: We updated our fundraising department with new software that allows us annually to reach thousands of targeted prospects. Our current Development Director does not know how to work the software, and she is a bit of a technophobe. Already, we see gaps between how...

The Resume, the Biography and the Executive Profile: Breaking Down the Job Seeker’s Documents

by Karen Alphonse | Aug 19, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers

Question: I hear what you need to get a senior-level job these days is an “Executive Profile,” not a resume. A friend described the profile as a detailed document describing the information usually contained on a resume and more. Can you elaborate? Answer: We have...

Navigating Unexpected Job Offer Terms

by Karen Alphonse | Aug 13, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers

Q: After applying for a new, professional job for quite some time, I finally have an offer from a well-known, regional insurance company. However, the offer is making me angry. I will be hired on a contract basis for the first year and am expected to generate at...

Combating Ageism

by Karen Alphonse | Aug 6, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers

Q: I have been crushed by the lack of response to my resume. My more than 33-year career has been as a corporate executive, an entrepreneur and an adjunct professor, so I am very taken back at the seeming lack of interest. After circulating the current version of my...

Networking Through Your Reference List

by Karen Alphonse | Jul 30, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers

Q: I have been a professor for the past 15 years and would like to serve the not-for-profit sector in a leadership capacity. I have tried everything from applying online and following up on job board posts to responding to newspaper ads. Nothing has even resulted in...

Is My Current Address Hurting My Job Search?

by Karen Alphonse | Jul 23, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers

Q: I live and work in South Carolina and want to relocate to the North East for family reasons. My spouse and I have family in New Hampshire, and, for the sake of our two children, we would like to find solid positions in that general area. I feel as though my...

Is Now the Time To Relocate?

by Karen Alphonse | Jul 16, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers

Question: I am finding that in my current role, there seems to be a glass ceiling regardless of having earned three promotions during my tenure. Complicating this issue is that I live in a state with a poor reputation for education which concerns us for our two sons....

How Should I Pursue My Career Change?

by Karen Alphonse | Jul 9, 2013 | Advice, Featured, Job Seekers

Question: I have been in the financial services sector for the past fifteen years working for a number of big name companies operating mostly out of New York City. I would like to take on a not-for-profit leadership role that taps my three core strengths of client...

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