Jobs
Overworked?
The main reason I feel busy is because I have 1.5 jobs, plus a mess of things on the side, so it always feels like I’m working on something. When I’m not working on something, I’m thinking about what I need to work on. But am I really that busy? Maybe not as much as I believe I am.
Jobs I Had Before Getting My Novel Published
Here’s a list of the (mostly crappy) jobs I had while writing nine novels before the tenth book got sold.
The Open-plan Office
Do you work in an open-plan office? Would you be better off in a cubicle? Quartz explains why open-plan offices make us less productive (and also more likely to get sick).
Chasing the Dream
Our pal Rebecca Pederson has a lovely essay up at The Bold Italic, an online magazine based in San Francisco. It’s about making career goals in college, discovering that things don’t go exactly as planned after you graduate, and then figuring out what to do about it. We’ve been there!
Only Way to Get 1 Job Is If Someone You Know Gives It to You, But What Do You Give Them?
Your friend got you a job. How do you thank her?
How to Make a LinkedIn Profile That Will Actually Help You Get a Job
The one thing that makes LinkedIn better than a resume is that you can target it to the next thing you want to do in your career, make it dynamic, and passively share it in public for any recruiter to find. When you create a profile, you can fill in as much or as little as you want, and you can target the information you include to draw the eye of recruiters and business contacts from the industries that you want to notice you.
Rejection
Mental Floss has a list of best-selling authors and their experiences with rejection. I remember being rejected from a paid internship I really wanted when I was a fresh-faced graduate. You get used to seeing rejections when you’re young and starting out, but this one particularly hurt because I had interviewed with four of the senior editors in the office, and had my hopes up. Years later, the same company contacted me and offered me a staff job, which I turned down because I was already happy with what I was doing. Rejection is not the end of the world, though it can feel like it at the time.
The Next Generation of Job Seekers
Susan Adams at Forbes thinks that high school students should make LinkedIn profiles because it will help them get jobs and will professionalize their online presence. She makes some compelling points, kind of.
Recruiting Via LinkedIn
LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a go-to resource for employers looking to hire workers in specific fields. Have you been contacted by headhunters on LinkedIn? I’ve been contacted by someone who asked me if I was interested in working at a hedge fund, and also by Google to work as an editor in their “offers” division (their Groupon-like program). I declined both.
