Best 8 Interview and Job Seeking Tips
1. Breathe life into your interview: Strategically delve into your past successes and develop stories and interesting anecdotes, with details, to make your capabilities come alive and become memorable. Practice delivering these stories and highlight the skills they demonstrate that relate to the position you are applying to. 2. Use props: Bring something unexpected to your interviews to create curiosity […]
Local career story: Will Bucquoy – from auto industry to photographer
Sonoma County through the lens of Silicon ValleyProfile #1: Will Bucquoy, photographer “Photography is not a job. I’m telling stories in a single image and I love it.” – Will Bucquoy. The photographer doesn’t realize it but I’m seeing him through a lens of my own — a Silicon Valley lens. As a transplant from the […]
From law office to the farm? A reader wonders if it’s possible.
Hi Joan,I am 50-something and have always been interested in farm life. I am currently enrolled at Sierra College for a degree in sustainable agriculture. I have been a secretary since I graduated secretarial school in 1978 . I have been a legal secretary for the past 27 years and am ready to get out […]
Silicon Valley to Sonoma County- LOCAL career stories
Yes, Joan, you’re not in Silicon Valley anymore. What if I showed you Sonoma County through Silicon Valley eyes? I realize in starting this third year as a Santa Rosan that I’m choosing to stay close to home to enjoy my “Sonoma County lifestyle.” I am crazy about the beauty — the hiking trails and […]
2 Magic Words for Career Success
Yes, this is an awfully large image, isn’t it? And it really gets your attention. Good. That’s my intention. Because the two magic words in career success have a lot to do with attention-getting. And I don’t mean the kind of attention you get by wearing bright colors. I mean the kind of attention you get […]
Frustrated, overqualified and unemployed in Sonoma County
Dear Joan, My husband and I moved to Sonoma County six months ago for a great job he got at a major corporation in Santa Rosa. We are both professionals from Europe and now have two lovely sons who have settled well into their charter schools in Santa Rosa. We just love the public school options […]
Holiday Party: Is it OK to dress sexy?
Dear Joan, I am the newbie in the office, a recent college grad, and a trying to decide what to wear to the company holiday party. We tend to dress pretty conservatively in my office, and do have casual dress Friday, but I’m wondering about the balance between looking festive for the holiday season vs. looking […]
Hillary Clinton – All Eyes on the Glass Ceiling
Post-election all eyes are on the glass ceiling. Many were expecting to see Hillary Clinton head to the Oval Office. But you don’t have to seek the most powerful job on the planet to shatter the glass ceiling. There’s plenty of shattering to do in everyone’s world, whether you’re a woman, a man, a Baby […]
Interview Tips for the Shy and Introverted
Dear Coach Joan, It was delightful meeting you on the plane when we were both flying East. And thank you for suggesting that I write in with my concern. My husband is an engineer and in the last few years he’s worked as a contractor which has required him to interview for new positions quite frequently. […]
Can I now get stoned at work?
Dear Coach Joan, Now that pot has been legalized in California, can we light up at work? It might make work a whole lot more fun! Best, Johnny Dear Johnny, Per this week’s passage of Proposition 64, adults in California can now lawfully consume marijuana for fun and people age 21 and up can now […]