I have just been laid off and don’t know where to turn; what do I do? (TPOY071)
When we are first laid off, it can be overwhelming. Our income is going or gone. And we face the prospect of going through a painful, barely...
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Career coach Win Sheffield brings you concise, comprehensive answers to your questions about the 21st Century job market, interviews, resumes, your letters, networking and negotiating.
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20 of 71 episodesAs an expert in my industry, what questions can I have for my network besides ‘Do you know anybody with a job’? (TPOY070)
Those familiar with The Power of You will know that learning more and more about the positions, industries and organizations we are interest...
How do I answer nonsense questions in an interview? (TPOY069)
As with many difficult questions, the main point of asking a nonsense question is to see how we handle the unexpected. While nonsense questi...
How do I answer interviewers’ questions about my future when I don’t know myself? (TPOY068)
In a continuing series on Difficult Interview Questions, this Power of You microcast addresses how to answer future oriented questions like...
I can imagine some objections to my candidacy; how do I tell which, if any of these I need to worry about? (TPOY067)
At various times in the interview process, we may suspect, that we are being viewed as a flawed candidate. This Power of You microcast addre...
How do I approach learning where I stand in the interview process? (TPOY066)
Interviews are the gateway to any job and so it is a good idea to know how we are being seen by our interviewers and what’s going on with th...
What do I need to put in my interview follow up note? (TPOY065)
Everyone knows that we need to send a thank you note after an interview. This Power of You microcast shows how to go beyond thank you and cr...
Can you make any recommendations how I can organize my time to make my career campaign more productive? (TPOY064)
In a job there tends to be a focus on what we do. This is rarely true in a job campaign where unfamiliar and last-minute tasks arise regular...
How can I appropriately leverage non-work social media and social settings for help with my career? (TPOY063)
We may choose to keep our personal life personal and not mix business with pleasure. It does not have to be that way. Many of the people we...
I am frustrated by my progress even though I am pursuing a variety of job options. What can I do to improve my results? (TPOY062)
Being open to a variety of options gives us more scope for success. At the same time, it can spread us too thin. It turns out that being per...
How can I find ideas for my next job? (TPOY061)
Many of us feel the urge to move on from our current job and don’t get very far because we don’t know what else we could do. This microcast...
I sometimes feel I am getting in my own way with my negative thoughts – what can I do to overcome this? (TPOY060)
Whenever we are in a new or unfamiliar situation, like being out of a job, we tend to doubt ourselves and pay more attention to our fears th...
Can you give me an example of a good accomplishment story? (TPOY059)
This microcast is the first in a series of samples that provide some ideas for the components of a good story. This story is a little over t...
How do I get to the point where I can speak about myself with confidence? (TPOY058)
We hear a lot about selling ourselves when it comes to the job market. This can be a daunting prospect, but with some up front work, can be...
Who is in my network and how do I get other people in my network? (TPOY057)
We tend to think of our network as the people we know professionally and assume that building our network involves cold calls to people we d...
I need to know more before I can put myself out there in the job market. How can I do this without feeling foolish? (TPOY056)
It is tempting to think that a job campaign is like a lot of other things we deal with in the 21st Century: Do the necessary work up front,...
Interviewers are always asking me what is the best or worst or most important this or that – What is my best strategy to answer these kinds of questions? (TPOY055)
Many interview questions can take the form of what is the Best? What is the Worst? Or the Most, or the Least. Don’t fall for it. This microc...
How can I get confidence to sell myself in the marketplace when I feel unfocused and unproductive? (TPOY054)
A job campaign has so many moving parts that it is easy to get lost in the process and end up feeling like we are engaged in random activity...
Can you give me some good questions to ask my networking contacts? (TPOY053)
There are many questions we can ask our contacts. While we will ask no two contacts the same questions, it is useful to have some basic ques...
What can I do to improve my negotiating position prior to getting the offer? (TPOY052)
Negotiation begins long before we receive our offer. This microcast reviews how we can best position ourselves to improve our negotiating po...