Friday, February 8, 2013

What do you say when you're out of work?

Priscilla Claman, President of Career Strategies, Inc., a Boston-based firm offering career coaching services offered advice for how to "Tell your story" when you are unemployed in a blog for the Harvard Business Review this month. It is a quick read with some useful tips and links to topics such as how to stay positive and leverage social media for your career search as well as suggestions for navigating those tough interview questions related to your current "out of work" status.

If you have more time to delve deeper, she also contributed to the book, the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. It is full of suggestions for how to define your career path, compete in a fiercely competitive job market and land the right job for you. A sound career investment for only $19.95.