Career Advice Articles

There has been so much written and discussed, over the last few years, regarding the benefits of remote working, especially when it is done from home. There is no denying that there is an opportunity to improve work-life-balance while saving money on incidentals such...

Job Seekers focus on a number of items when evaluating opportunities during his/her job search. It is easy to focus on the most obvious tangible items such as pay, benefits, schedule, and commute. Some Job Seekers will even take their evaluation a step further, by...

Each year, there are many Western New York healthcare professionals who decide to reenter the workforce and look to restart their career. The reasons someone departed can be very similar for people in any profession, such as providing care to children or an elderly...

It is, unfortunately, fairly common for job seekers to self-deselect themselves from positions because they are missing some of the skills listed in the job posting.  In some situations, that noted skill may be a non-negotiable and no one will be considered without...

It is a simplistic belief that all you need to consider prior to resigning, is how to tell your Manager. This is an important communication that can create stress when thinking about it. However, there are also a lot more items that a person should contemplate once...

You may have read or heard about the current concept of the “great resignation” but wondered what it is all about. What this term means is that employers are suffering from a previously unseen number of resignations that appear to have aligned itself with the start of...

This week we will dive a little deeper within two of the more popular areas by examining positions in Manufacturing and looking at jobs specifically within the Maintenance area. MANUFACTURING: If you only went by the headlines in the newspaper you would probably be...

Something very scary is occurring in many job searches. It hasn’t quite drawn the attention of the TV shows like Ghost Adventures or Ghost Hunters yet, but it certainly is spooking Recruiters and Hiring Managers. I am referring to “ghosting”, which is the term for...

It’s that time of the year where the chillier weather means much more than just the start of the winter season. We are also now in the holiday season, and the time when many people think seriously about a move to WNY (especially if you are a native of the area). Now,...