5 Non-Obvious Signs of Impending Layoff

On September 25, 2022
In Career Management, Career Tips, Change, Departure, Market, Timing

As the risk of recession increases, here’s a good article on how to tell if your company is about to do layoffs (beyond if you see a steep drop in revenue or a threat emerge to the business model). I survived multiple rounds of layoffs when I was in-house, and these ring true to me: […]

On July 31, 2022
In Change, Departure

I recently posted that now is a good time to change jobs since the economic outlook is not great. In fact, the best case scenario for the US economy is to avoid a recession. (See NYT article The Big Economic Question: It is not whether the U.S. is in a recession. It’s whether the economy […]

On April 1, 2022
In Change, Interview

Interviews for in-house jobs are generally straightforward. Here are the questions you should prep for, listed in order of frequency and complete with links to good answers! Tell me about yourself. (See here and here on how to answer.) Why are you interested in this opportunity? (See here and here on how to answer.) What […]

On March 13, 2022
In Career Management, Change

After two years, companies are finally calling employees back into the office. If you work remotely but co-workers are returning to the office, how do you keep up? For example, the New York Times reported a Stanford study that found remote workers were promoted half as often as in-office peers even though the remote workers produced […]

On February 10, 2022
In Career Management, Career Tips, Change

I appreciated a recent online fireside chat with the CEO of Heidrick & Struggles Krishnan Rajagopalan. He is uniquely qualified to give career advice because he not only helms a top executive search firm but also is an immigrant to the US who taught himself about corporate America. Five takeaways from his QA covering his […]

On October 17, 2021
In Change, Departure, Move

The Great Resignation is going on, and I’ve got a bird’s eye view. The top reasons I see Bay Area lawyers quitting are: Better opportunities. I’ve been recruiting in-house lawyers 15 years, and I have never seen it so hot. Lawyers are constantly presented with interesting work that could give them a better career trajectory. (See here for why […]

On September 19, 2021
In Change

Now is the perfect time to jump back into the workforce. Why? Employers are hiring like crazy but finding talent scarce. As a result, they are more willing to consider candidates with gaps as long as they have the right skills and can reasonably explain their absence (e.g., gap was due to caretaking, move, pandemic, […]

On June 27, 2021
In Change

Wall Street Journal reports pandemic gaps are not a big deal on your resume. Society is getting more understanding now about people taking time off to take care of their family, and the economy is red hot so employers show more flexibility on who they will consider hiring. Should you explain your pandemic gap? One […]

On May 23, 2021
In Change, Departure

It’s peak hiring season now! My candidates are getting offers and saying good-bye to current employers. Three things departing employees should do to leave on good terms: Give two weeks’ notice. Yes, two weeks is an arbitrary number, but it is convention. Be flexible about staying a little longer if your employer asks you to. […]

On May 9, 2021
In Career Management, Change

I enjoyed LinkedIn’s career column on “bridge jobs,” which is a temporary job taken while waiting for the perfect one. Sometimes you need to take small steps to get to that ideal job. Here are five scenarios where it makes sense: Take a bigger job in the same field. For example, you could pick up direct […]

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