Job-searching at any age is challenging. Learn strategies to age-proof your resume to keep you in the applicant pool longer! In the past, I have written about job-searching and its challenges. But I have avoided talking about one area within the topic that I have felt little control over: ageism…

Read How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You Are, Too by Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg, from Harvard Business Review. I am tired. The extravert inside me craves seeing people. The energy that I used to get from people during the day isn’t the same through a Zoom call…

Our interview questions can sometimes thwart attempts in hiring the best candidates. Learn how to identify some clunkers and replace them with quality questions! Let’s do some guided imagery to kick off this post. Imagine this: You and your team will need to hire a new person to round out…

Recently, I joined our department’s racial equity planning committee. After nearly 20 years working in diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI) work in higher education, I thought it would be a good way to learn ways to do this work in a different industry. …

In my last post in October “When You’re the Target of Weaponized White Tears,” I recounted an issue that allowed a college student I worked with who pointed out how the tone I used to hold her accountable for her poor choices made her feel uncomfortable. She labeled me as…

I have recounted over the years my experience looking for a job in my chosen field. After losing my job to a college closure in 2018, it took me several years to re-enter my field as a departmental manager. …

Over twenty years ago, I worked in a multicultural affairs office at a large state university. The first Latino and openly gay male in the office, I knew that my presence was going to attract attention. …

About 15 years ago, I worked with a college student who made me cry in my director’s office. Twice. That experience stayed with me, and I thought I had learned how to manage those experiences to avoid them. I wrote about the experience in a series What I Wish I…

$282.38 That is the amount of money I have made on the 3 books I have written, from April 2019 until now. This amount of money may seem insignificant, but when I was unemployed from full-time work for 3 years, the sale of one book felt significant. Or the pages that…