Stop Telling The (Whole) Truth
Where do they ask you the following question: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? If you answered...
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Ed Lawrence
- Sep 23
- 4 min
Stop Asking This Negative Question
Last month, I saw an article on LinkedIn (LI) with a title similar to “Ask This Question and Be Hired Every Time.” The question turned...
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Ed Lawrence
- Sep 22
- 2 min
Stop Mis-Using AI
I'm a judge for one of the national resume-writing certifications. Recently, when I was about to start evaluating one submission, I...
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Ed Lawrence
- Jul 29
- 2 min
Stop Taking Good Health For Granted
Because I work with the Massachusetts Councils on Aging and also because of we live in a generally ageist society, a significant number...
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Ed Lawrence
- Jul 29
- 2 min
Stop Begging
Some well-meaning people on LinkedIn who consider themselves career "experts" are advising recently laid off people to announce their...
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Ed Lawrence
- Mar 26
- 2 min
Stop Boring People
If you’ve been following me for a while, you know how I dislike the elevator speech and instead promote a brief networking introduction....
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Ed Lawrence
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Stop Assuming the Worst
Recently, I’ve been reading some two communication books: Crucial Confrontations and Crucial Conversations (I highly recommend them)....
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Rachelle John
- Jan 28
- 3 min
Stop Ignoring Your Gut
Stop Ignoring Your Gut: How to Assess a Job Offer with Your Intuition By Rachelle John In a world where data and logic are held in high...
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Ed Lawrence
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Stop Lying on Your Resume
You may have seen the recent news stories detailing how a recently elected politician was found to have fabricated most of his backstory....
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Ed Lawrence
- Nov 19, 2022
- 2 min
Stop sign: Stop Worrying About the economy
While having lunch with a small businessman recently, I asked him how things were going. What’s the economic outlook? He told me his...
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Ed Lawrence
- Nov 19, 2022
- 2 min
Stop Ghosting Employers and Appointments
As I write this, it is after 4pm on October 31st, All Hallows Eve--colloquially known as Halloween. It is the day and night for...
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Micah Norris
- Sep 2, 2022
- 3 min
5 Steps to Executing Your Professional Development Plan
By Micah Norris Maybe you have a vague idea of what you’d like to accomplish in your career, but you’ve never mapped out the concrete...
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Ed Lawrence
- Sep 2, 2022
- 2 min
Stop Obsessing why you didn't get the job
Last June, PARW member, coach and resume writer Donald P. Orlando, wrote a great article titled “Four Reasons Why Your Top Notch Client...
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Ed Lawrence
- Jul 20, 2022
- 2 min
Stop Relying on Job Boards
A number of my Getstart-ed clients and almost all of my White Hawk (outplacement) clients have landed jobs this year. Most of them found...
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Micah Norris
- Jul 18, 2022
- 3 min
Taking a Freelance Career and Transforming it into a Business
Life as a freelancer offers you a great degree of flexibility, allowing you to work on what you want, when you want. As your freelance...
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Ed Lawrence
- Jun 6, 2022
- 2 min
Stop Walking With Pebbles in Your Shoe
The Stop Sign is a job-search column offering serious career advice with a touch of humor to help you stand out among the crowd that...
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Micah Norris
- May 1, 2022
- 2 min
Ecommerce Entrepreneurs -Catch the Attention of Audiences and Turn Them Into Long-Standing Customers
Judging by the millions of online shops that exist on the web today, there’s little doubt that eCommerce stores are thriving. However,...
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Micah Norris
- Mar 31, 2022
- 3 min
Starting a Career in Criminal Justice: Tips for People with Disabilities
by Micah Norris Many people think that if you want to work in criminal justice, you have to be a police officer or a district attorney....
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Regi Publico
- Mar 26, 2022
- 4 min
Balancing a Career and Parenting a Child with Special Needs
by Regi Publico Mothers and fathers will tell you that parenting is one of their greatest joys in life. But parenting, with its twists...
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Micah Norris
- Feb 26, 2022
- 2 min
Organize Your Work Relocation With These Tips
Starting a new job comes with a certain amount of stress. However, if your new career requires moving to a different location, you face...
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