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. …

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. Yesterday, I was asked…

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…

I am preparing myself for all the tiny violins but I have to say it’s stressful to have too many good people applying for the job in my office! But I recognize that the stress is all in my unfamiliarity with dealing with these blessings! In the words of Broadway…

I have watched unconscious bias training go incredibly well, but have noticed their impact diminish over time. That is because these training opportunities only touch on the surface issues that create inequitable environments, but rarely tackle the systems of oppression and racist behavior that are endemic to the actual organization…

In my new role, I am responsible for filling a couple of staff positions that have been vacant for some months. I am approaching this responsibility from a different mindset than I have before. I’ve hired staff before and have been a candidate more times than I can count. So…